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<p>The&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>&nbsp;Research Program is part of an effort to advance individualized health care by enrolling one million or more participants to contribute their health data over many years. The program aims to reflect the diversity of the United States and to include participants from groups that have been underrepresented in health research in the past. The program is developing custom tools and software to help researchers analyze participant data while keeping information secure. Working together,&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>&nbsp;researchers, partners, and participants aim to build a better future for health care. Learn more&nbsp;<a href="https://allofus.nih.gov/about/all-us-research-program-overview">about&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p>The goal of&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>&nbsp;is to speed up health research discoveries, enabling new kinds of individualized health care. To make this possible, the program is building one of the worlds largest and most diverse databases for health research.</p>
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<p>Unlike research studies that focus on one disease or group of people, <em>All of Us</em> is building a database that can inform thousands of studies on a variety of important health questions. Researchers have found success in using precision medicine to treat certain types of cancers. <em>All of Us</em> seeks to extend that success to many other diseases. Importantly, <em>All of Us</em> may enable research focused not only on treating disease but also on ways to be healthier.</p>
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<p>Researchers have seen some progress with precision medicine, which is health care that is based on you as an individual. But it can take many years to understand how a unique variable is linked to a disease or treatment. It takes even more time to develop new ways to prevent and treat disease. By creating a program of the size and scope of <em>All of Us</em><em>,</em> we hope to speed up these medical breakthroughs.</p>
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<p>While many programs share one or two characteristics of&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>, it is the combination of all the elements below that makes&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>&nbsp;a unique and unprecedented research effort:</p>
<p>• Our participants reflect the rich diversity of America, including volunteers of many races and ethnicities, age groups, geographic regions, gender identities, sexual orientations, and health statuses.&nbsp;We aim to enroll one million or more participants over the course of the program.</p>
<p>• With&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>, participants are true partners—not subjects, with ongoing opportunities to help shape the program with their input. Further, information is shared with both researchers&nbsp;and&nbsp;participants.&nbsp;</p>
<p>• As a government-funded program committed to open data and science,&nbsp;<em>All of Us </em>makes data broadly accessible to researchers of all kinds to support thousands of studies across a wide range of different health topics.</p>
<p>• Other large research programs collect limited types of samples or data, often focused on a specific disease.&nbsp;<em>All of Us</em>&nbsp;gathers blood,&nbsp;urine, and saliva samples; physical measurements; electronic health records; survey information about participants health histories, family medical histories, lifestyles, and communities; and wearable data to get a more complete picture of human health across many conditions.</p>
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