The future of health begins with you.

The All of Us Research Program is inviting one million people across the U.S. to help build one of the most diverse health databases in history. We welcome participants from all backgrounds. Researchers will use the data to learn how our biology, lifestyle, and environment affect health. This may one day help them find ways to treat and prevent disease.

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How Can All of Us Make a Difference?

Too often, health care is one size fits all. Treatments meant for the “average” patient may not work well for individual people. Health care providers may find it difficult to coordinate care among specialists or to access all of a patient’s health information. Researchers may spend lots of time and resources creating new databases for every study.

All of Us is working to improve health care through research. Unlike research studies that focus on one disease or group of people, All of Us is building a diverse database that can inform thousands of studies on a variety of health conditions. This creates more opportunities to:

  • Know the risk factors for certain diseases

  • Figure out which treatments work best for people of different backgrounds

  • Connect people with the right clinical studies for their needs

  • Learn how technologies can help us take steps to be healthier

All of Us and Precision Medicine

The National Institutes of Health formed the Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group of the Advisory committee to the Director in March 2015. The group concluded its work in September 2015 with a detailed report. The report provided a framework for setting up the All of Us Research Program.

Precision medicine:

  • Is based on you as an individual

  • Takes into account your environment (where you live), lifestyle (what you do), and your family health history and genetic makeup

  • Gives health care providers the information they need to make customized recommendations for people of different backgrounds, ages, and regions

  • Helps you get better information about how to be healthier

  • Reduce health care costs by matching the right person with the right treatment the first time

All of Us is part of a new era in which researchers, health care providers, technology experts, community partners, and the public work together to develop individualized health care.

Participation

Participants are partners in the All of Us Research Program. They have access to their information and a say in how the program is run. By taking part, they have a chance to support new discoveries that may help their families and communities.

Benefits of Taking Part

We’re all human, but we’re not all the same. Often our differences—like age, ethnicity, lifestyle habits, or where we live—can reveal important insights about our health. By participating in the All of Us Research Program, you may learn more about your health than ever before, including information about your DNA. Some examples include ancestry, traits, and certain health-related DNA results that you could share with your health care provider.

Who Can Join

People over the age of 18 who are living in the United States can join the All of Us Research Program. You can sign up directly through JoinAllofUs.org or at a participating health care provider organization.

What You Would Need to Do

All of Us is free to join, and participation will always be free. People who take part in the program will answer surveys on different topics. They will be asked to share their electronic health record. They may give samples of blood, urine, and/or saliva for lab and DNA tests. The health information that participants share with All of Us will go into a secure database. Researchers all over the world can apply to use this data to study many different health conditions. This may lead to better treatments and ways to prevent disease.