Healthcare Innovation November 6, 2021
David Raths

Responses will provide researchers with data to better understand the connection between social environmental factors and overall health

The NIH All of Us Research Program has launched a survey tool to collect social determinant data. Cheryl Clark, M.D., co-chair of the research effort’s social determinants of health (SDOH) task force, recently spoke with Healthcare Innovation about how this data could enhance precision medicine research by complementing the genomic and clinical data already being gathered.

Currently, 428,000 participants have signed up and completed the basic consent process and 305,000 have completed the initial steps, including consent, EHR connection, DNA sample, first few surveys, and physical height and weight measurements. Eighty percent of participants self-identify into a group that has been historically...

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