Data Infrastructure
Data Infrastructure
Supporting a highly efficient and effective biomedical research data infrastructure is critical to achieving NIH’s mission of applying knowledge gained through research to improving health.
NIH is leveraging cloud services through partnerships with academic institutions and industry to facilitate secure data storage and broad access to biomedical datasets. NIH is also developing shared identity and access management tools to allow researchers to connect to and seamlessly analyze data across NIH data platforms and resources.
Learn more about data infrastructure projects at the NIH below.
The STRIDES
Initiative
Harnessing the power of the cloud in support of biomedical research
Researcher Auth Service Initiative
Streamlining access to NIH’s open and controlled data assets and repositories for researchers
NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability Effort
Creating a federated data ecosystem to improve researchers’ access to data
Data Use Oversight System Pilot
Testing semi-automated systems that enable efficient and rigorous reviews of data access requests
This page last reviewed on September 22, 2021