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# COVID-19 Research Database
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/covid-19-research-database/
- Published: 1999-01-02T14:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-20T03:12:18.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, COVID-19, Organization

The **COVID-19 Research Database** (RDB) is an American research and data partnership created and hosted by HHS Technology Group.[\[1\]](#fn1)

## History

RDB was launched on April 22, 2020.[\[2\]](#fn2)

## Collaborators

RDB is a partnership between many organizations, including:[\[3\]](#fn3)[\[2:1\]](#fn2)

- Advarra
- Aetion
- AnalyticsIQ
- Arcadia
- Berkeley Research Group (BRG)
- Boston Health Economics (BHE)
- Change Healthcare
- Clarify Health Solutions
- [Datavant](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Datavant)
- Discover Your Data
- Elsevier
- Glooko
- Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI)
- Healthjump
- HealthWise Data
- Helix
- HHS Technology Group (HTG)
- Mathematica
- Medidata
- Mirador Analytics
- Munich Re
- Office Ally
- OMNY Health
- Parexel
- Prognos Health
- Qiagen
- SAS Institute
- Snowflake
- StataCorp
- Sumitomo Pharma
- Symphony Health
- Veradigm
- Verana Health

### Team

| Name                 | Position                                             | Notes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Martin Aboitiz       | Governance Advisory Group[\[4\]](#fn4)               | Healthjump                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Jamie Blackport      | Governance Advisory Group                            | Mirador Analytics                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Niall Brennan        | Governance Advisory Group                            | Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI)                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Arnaub Chatterjee    | Governance Advisory Group                            | Acorn AI, Medidata, [Datavant](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Datavant)                                                                                                                                                                |
| Todd Crosslin        | Governance Advisory Group                            | Snowflake                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| John Danaher         | Governance Advisory Group                            | Elsevier                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Todd Gottula         | Governance Advisory Group                            | Clarify Health Solutions                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Connie Ignuanti      | Governance Advisory Group                            | Symphony Health                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Steve Kearny         | Governance Advisory Group                            | SAS Institute                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Jason LaBonte        | Governance Advisory Group                            | [Datavant](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Datavant)                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Brian O'Neill        | Governance Advisory Group                            | Office Ally                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Stephanie Reisinger  | Governance Advisory Group                            | Veradigm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Dan Shiffman         | Governance Advisory Group                            | Qiagen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Patrick J. Sullivan  | Governance Advisory Group                            | Munich Re                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Tim Suther           | Governance Advisory Group                            | Change Healthcare                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Marc Berger          | Strategic Advisory Group                             | International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Don Berwick          | Strategic Advisory Group                             | Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Centers-for-Medicare-&-Medicaid-Services) (CMS)                                                                |
| Esther Krofah        | Strategic Advisory Group                             | FasterCures                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Carolyn Magill       | Strategic Advisory Group                             | Aetion                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| David Shulkin        | Strategic Advisory Group                             | United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), *Journal of the American Medical Association* (*JAMA*)                                                                                                                                     |
| Ed Simcox            | Strategic Advisory Group                             | LifeOmic, [United States Department of Health and Human Services](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/United-States-Department-of-Health-and-Human-Services) (HHS), Mayo Clinic                                                             |
| Lisa Simpson         | Strategic Advisory Group                             | [AcademyHealth](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/AcademyHealth)                                                                                                                                                                          |
| Michael Stebbins     | Strategic Advisory Group                             | Scientific Advisors, Office of Science and Technology Policy                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Ginger Zielinskie    | Strategic Advisory Group                             | Evergreen Strategic Advisors                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Patrick Baier        | Privacy Advisor                                      | Scheuren Ruffner Consultants                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Daniel Barth-Jones   | Privacy Advisor                                      | Columbia University                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| John Cook            | Privacy Advisor                                      | Singular Value Consulting                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Andrew Kopelman      | Privacy Advisor                                      | Medidata                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Brad Malin           | Privacy Advisor                                      | Vanderbilt University                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Deven McGraw         | Privacy Advisor                                      | Ciitizen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Colin Moffatt        | Privacy Advisor                                      | Mirador Analytics                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Jan Oldenburg        | Privacy Advisor                                      | Participatory Health Consulting                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| Mark Cullen          | Scientific Steering Committee (Chair)[\[2:2\]](#fn2) | Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine                                                                                                                                                        |
| Julia Adler-Milstein | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR)                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Thomas Carton        | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), Research Action for Health Network (REACHnet)                                                                                                                                                       |
| C. Lee Cohen         | Scientific Steering Committee                        | COVIDProtocols, [Food and Drug Administration](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Food-and-Drug-Administration) (FDA), [Boston Consulting Group](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Boston-Consulting-Group) (BCG)                      |
| Sherrine Eid         | Scientific Steering Committee                        | SAS Institute                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Aaron Galaznik       | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Acorn AI                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Mina Hsiang          | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Devoted Health                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Louise Ivers         | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Lee Kallenbach       | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Veradigm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| Alan Kaul            | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Medical Outcomes Management (MOM)                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Abel Kho             | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Greg Licholai        | Scientific Steering Committee                        | McKinsey & Company, Elpidera, Immunome, PRA Health Sciences, [ICON](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/ICON)                                                                                                                               |
| Joseph Menzin        | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Boston Health Economics (BHE)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Anna Milewski        | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI)                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Ariel Pakes          | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Harvard University                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| Julie Parsonnet      | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Stanford University School of Medicine, Eagle Fund, Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic (SAFE)                                                                                                                                             |
| Eric Perakslis       | Scientific Steering Committee                        | [Datavant](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Datavant), Duke University                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Jeremy Racine        | Scientific Steering Committee                        | SAS Institute                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| James Robins         | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| Sally Rodriguez      | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI)                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| Matthew Roe          | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Verana Health                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Charles Safran       | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Harvard Medical School                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Misha Segal          | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Berkeley Research Group (BRG)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| Robert Shafer        | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Stanford University School of Medicine                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Nan Shao             | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Parexel                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Pietro Tebaldi       | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Lisa Wruck           | Scientific Steering Committee                        | Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI)                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Donna Cryer          | Patient Advocacy and Ethics Advisor[\[4:1\]](#fn4)   | Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI), [Food and Drug Administration](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Food-and-Drug-Administration) (FDA), [Global Liver Institute](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Global-Liver-Institute) (GLI) |
| Andrew C. Wicks      | Patient Advocacy and Ethics Advisor                  | Olsson Center for Applied Ethics                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| Bruce Church         | Omics Advisor                                        | GNS Healthcare                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Ramon Feliziano      | Omics Advisor                                        | Qiagen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Justin Kao           | Omics Advisor                                        | Helix                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Zach Henderson       | Project Advisor                                      | Glooko                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Richard Jenkins      | Project Advisor                                      | Aetion                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Jason Martin         | Project Advisor                                      | Parexel                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Richard Thomas       | Project Advisor                                      | Genstar Capital                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

## External links

- [Website](https://covid19researchdatabase.org/)

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1. *COVID-19 Research Database Description.* AcademyHealth. Retrieved June 21, 2023, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20230621230310/https://academyhealth.org/sites/default/files/covid-19%5Fresearch%5Fdatabase%5Fdescription%5F0.pdf> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *Leading Healthcare Companies Announce COVID-19 Research Database.* (2020, April 22). Datavant. <http://archive.today/2024.05.28-214057/https://www.datavant.com/press-release/leading-healthcare-companies-announce-covid-19-research-database> [↩︎](#fnref2) [↩︎](#fnref2:1) [↩︎](#fnref2:2)
3. *Home.* COVID-19 Research Database. Retrieved May 28, 2024, from <http://archive.today/2024.05.28-195356/https://covid19researchdatabase.org/> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. *Home.* COVID-19 Research Database. Retrieved April 24, 2020, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20200424015133/https://covid19researchdatabase.org/> [↩︎](#fnref4) [↩︎](#fnref4:1)