The objective of this focus area is to help advance data sharing, acquisition, integration, analysis and resulting insights in the pursuit of improved public health and health outcomes. This includes:
1. Enabling data sharing, acquisition and integration to develop knowledge and insight in the pursuit of improved health outcomes, including alternative health data sources such as environmental factors, social media and mobile health
2. Supporting the development and deployment of advanced analytics, including causal discovery and reasoning, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in biomedicine
3. Enabling data science collaborations in the support of precision medicine, including advanced decision support leveraging data to deliver customized and personalized knowledge, insight and recommendations
Current Projects on Health
Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Workshop Series
Large-Scale Observational Health Research
Upcoming Health Events


Pandemic Prevention & Policy Research Working Group


Update on Standard for Clinical Internet of Things

Education Impacts Research Working Group

Social Impacts & Health Outcomes Research Working Group

Pandemic Prevention & Policy Research Working Group

Education Impacts Research Working Group

Social Impacts & Health Outcomes Research Working Group

Pandemic Prevention & Policy Research Working Group

Education Impacts Research Working Group
Health Professional Opportunities
Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Applications accepted on a rolling basis through February 5, 2025.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Conference Grant Programs
Applications accepted on a rolling basis through November 2026.
Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP)
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Data Science Internship Program, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Accepting rolling applications
Emerging Viral Infections and their Impact on the Male and Female Reproductive Tract
Applications accepted through July 16, 2023
NIH FOA: Accelerating Data and Metadata Standards in the Environmental Health Sciences
LOIs due April 10th
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Neurological and Neurocognitive Sequelae from SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 in Aging and Age-Related Neurodegeneration
Applications accepted through May 8, 2023
Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements for COVID-19 Impacted NIMH Research
Applications accepted through June 2, 2023
PEPI-G Program: Fellowships with Industry and Government
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Summer Training for Aspiring Researchers (STAR) Program
Applications due March 26th
Health Career Opportunities
Health Resources
Connected Healthcare Integrated Systems Design Workshop Results, IEEE and NEBDHub
COVID Information Commons: Unlocking COVID-19 Insights with Data Science, developed with help from NEBD Hub student volunteer, Aryan Naik
Democratizing Artificial Intelligence: Bringing Automated Machine Learning Technologies to Basic, Translational, and Clinical Cancer Researchers, Association of American Cancer Institutes
IEEE DataPort COVID-19 Open-Source Datasets, IEEE
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Data Files, Health Resources and Services Administration
Finding Statistics and Data Related to Rural Health, Rural Health Information Hub
NIH Office of Data Science Strategy Announces New Initiative to Improve Access to NIH-funded Data, NIH
Research & Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities, University of Montana
Health Success Stories

Forecasting Salinity in Rivers during Storm Events
Guest post by Laura Dietz, University of New Hampshire This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. Every winter, vast amounts of road salts are scattered onto streets across the northeastern U.S.. While important for our safety, ice-melt and rainfall wash this road […]