Collective Board Meetings


The HEAL Collective Board meets once a month with HEAL Data Ecosystem teams to discuss and provide input on strategies, approaches and needs for building the HEAL Data Ecosystem and promoting data sharing and reuse.

Past Events




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Tue Sep 01 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The Collective Board discussion focused on defining self-service for both investigators submitting data and research ...

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Tue May 05 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

The May Collective Board (CB) Meeting discussion converged on the idea that “high-value datasets” should not be defined by a single standard but rathe ...

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Tue Feb 03 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: HEAL investigators would be interested in knowing about the HEAL data sets that are available and specifically their ...

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Tue Oct 07 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The board discussed ideas for further increasing the usability and value proposition of HEAL Semantic Search (HSS). ...

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Tue Sep 02 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The Collective Board found HEAL workspaces to be useful and to accommodate most relevant analytic use cases. FedRAMP ...

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Tue Jun 03 2025 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Dr. Nora Volkow, NIDA Director expressed it is a key priority to ensure data from HEAL studies is not only deposited ...

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Tue Mar 04 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The meeting was used to 1) discuss member feedback on challenges associated with data deposition in more detail, 2) ...

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Wed Nov 06 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Researchers don’t view data, protocols or code as products of their research, and the barrier to change that entrenc ...

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Tue Oct 01 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Collective Board members were introduced to the NCATS LitCoin project. There was interest in which LLMs were tested ...

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Wed Sep 04 2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The Platform team presented three HEAL Data Platform use cases. Members proposed an additional use case–researchers ...

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Wed Jul 03 2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Two alumni members joined the meeting which focused again on the peer-to-peer thought piece. The proposed timeline t ...

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Tue Jun 04 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The meeting focused on a potential member-authored peer-to-peer thought piece on what it means to be part of a data ...

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Tue Apr 02 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The HEAL Connections Team presented background on their Sharing Series, Cultural Responsiveness Researcher Guidebook ...

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Wed Mar 06 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Members discussed challenges facing HEAL Data Ecosystem development on the study- and data-specific levels as well a ...

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Wed Jan 03 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Breakout rooms with member pairs were used twice to give members a chance to get to know one another. Member pairs w ...

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Tue Dec 05 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Collective Board members shared ideas, success factors, opportunities and challenges associated with a potential HEA ...

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Wed Nov 01 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: HEAL Stewards, HEAL Platform, and HEAL Connections collected ideas from members on ways to maximize our impact at th ...

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Tue Oct 03 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The Collective Board discussed challenges associated with standardizing CDE implementation across HEAL, and how best ...

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Wed Sep 06 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Suparna Goswami presented HEAL Semantic Search, which is being launched at the Fresh FAIR webinar on Sep. 21. Gaurav ...

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Tue Aug 01 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The value of collecting variable-level metadata (VLMD) from HEAL studies was explored. Underlying the discussion was ...

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Tue Jun 06 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The potential scope of a HEAL Working Group on data standards was discussed. Evaluating all of the standards that co ...

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Wed May 03 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Discussion focused on the development of a data reuse use case for HEAL. Members shared detailed experiences of chal ...

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Wed May 03 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Discussion focused on the development of a data reuse use case for HEAL. Members shared detailed experiences of chal ...

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Tue Apr 04 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: After an introduction to and demonstration of HEAL Semantic Search powered by Dug, members were asked to respond to ...

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Wed Mar 01 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The Stewards presented a draft list of hurdles and limitations associated with sharing various types of sensitive HE ...

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Tue Feb 07 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: HEAL Connections presented their plans and responded to questions. Members shared insights on their varied dissemina ...

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Wed Jan 04 2023 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The HEAL Connections Team was introduced to the board. Anthony and Phil presented the proposed approach to collectin ...

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Tue Dec 06 2022 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Dr. Gregurick talked about key data sharing initiatives and strategies within the NIH. The HEAL initiative’s alignme ...

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Thu Nov 10 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Meeting Summary: The Collective Board discussed HEAL CDEs in further detail. Updates were shared to clarify outstanding questions from the Sep. meetin ...

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Thu Sep 08 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Discussed the importance of achieving a greater degree of conformity for domain-specific CDEs and means of promoting ...

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Tue Aug 09 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Discussed concerns and recommendations for promoting Platform registration and opportunities for collaboration on th ...

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Thu Jun 09 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Members considered whether and under what conditions HEAL studies producing multiple data types should deposit their ...

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Tue May 10 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Continued with four breakout groups to finish reviewing assigned categories and fields from the last meeting before ...

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Thu Apr 14 2022 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Captured feedback from members on the 3rd annual HEAL PI meeting. Discussed the Translator program’s relevance to HE ...

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Thu Mar 10 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: The approaches of 1) beginning with study-level metadata and 2) scraping existing metadata from CT.gov, NIH reporter ...

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Tue Feb 08 2022 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time

Collective Board Meeting Summary: Discussed use cases to ensure the Board has a broad and collective understanding of the different customers for the ...