The All of Us research program has opened the researcher workbench platform for investigators at select institutions including Emory University. Researchers will now be able to use individual-level data of All of Us participants as part of a beta testing phase. The program is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Associate vice president for research at Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Michael Zwick, who leads Emory’s All of Us program says, “Emory is proud of its role in this program, and is helping to build what promises to become one of the world’s largest and most diverse datasets to advance precision medicine research.”

The beta version will enable researchers to begin exploring the program’s initial dataset and tools for use in a wide range of analyses. The current version of the workbench has data from nearly 225,000 participants nationwide, including electronic health record and participant-reported information.

Emory has signed a data use agreement with the All of Us Data and Research Center, so all Emory faculty, staff, and students with eRA Commons accounts may apply for access to this resource, at https://www.researchallofus.org/apply/.

Requirements at this time include, in addition to having an eRA commons account, completion of the All of Us Responsible Conduct of Research Training, and commitment to a Data User Code of Conduct.

Some facts about the data available at the researcher workbench:

• This is an early version of the data that will grow richer over time.

• It currently includes an initial set of demographic information and data from surveys and electronic health records.

• New data will be added regularly.

• Over time, the study will add data from genomic analysis, biomarkers, etc. These data are not available at this time.

• Initially, researchers will have to code in R or Python to analyze the data in a Jupyter Notebooks environment, but the study will add more tools over time.

Though not required, researchers who access the workbench should notify Dr. Zwick at [email protected], and co-investigator Dr. Alvaro Alonso at [email protected], and provide a brief description of their research project. This information will help track use of this resource and its impact.