Supporting and sustaining engagement to retain strategies and disseminating research value in the All of Us Research Program

NIH RePORTER · NIH · OT2 · $500,000 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

The All of Us Research Program is a landmark longitudinal cohort study that aims to enroll 1 million or more participants reflecting all people of the United States and create a unique biomedical data resource that can advance precision medicine and improve health. Since 2016, the All of Us New England Consortium (AoUNE) has contributed to the success of the national program by engaging, enrolling and retaining individuals in Eastern Massachusetts through a collaboration of Mass General Brigham (MGB), New England’s largest regional health system, and Boston Medical Center (BMC), the largest safety net hospital in the Northeast. In the process, we have designed and implemented robust procedures for participant retention strategies that leverage multimodal engage to retain strategies in all populations. We have achieved high retention of our participant partners (PPs), including both passive (87%) and active (>40%) retention rates. Importantly, we have contributed to consortium-wide activities that have led to successful scientific contributions to retention. The AoUNE PIs are active participants in All of Us engagement activities as Engagement lead within the national program, and locally with our Community Advisory Panel (CAP). We are well poised to support the Division of Engagement and Outreach to achieve the NIH All of Us Area of Interest 1 to focus on: • Aim 1: Supporting existing participants and retention efforts. • Aim 2: Sustaining engagement efforts and disseminating research findings to participants as a part of return of value. We propose a process that will develop evidence-based solutions/models for scalable program wide-efforts to support the shift from enrollment to an engage to retain model for the All of Us Research Program.

Key facts

NIH application ID
11111567
Project number
1OT2OD038228-01
Recipient
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
Principal Investigator
CHERYL RENEE CLARK
Activity code
OT2
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2024
Award amount
$500,000
Award type
1
Project period
2024-09-01 → 2026-01-31