Support The Journey

OHDSI Sponsorship Helps Provide A Foundation For Our Global Research Efforts

The OHDSI community comprises a global team of volunteers who collaborate together using open-source tools and share best practices to support our shared mission of generating real-world evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care.

In order to foster growth in our community, the OHDSI Coordinating Center at Columbia University has created a sponsorship program and an advisory board. These programs allow both corporations and individuals to make meaningful contributions in support of OHDSI’s central coordinating activities. Any amount of support enhances both our community and our mission.

If you are interested, please reach out to [email protected].

What Does The OHDSI Coordinating Center Do, And How Does Your Sponsorship Impact OHDSI's Future? (George Hripcsak)

for more information, contact [email protected]

How does the Coordinating Center support OHDSI? 

  • Provides central shared infrastructure and coordinates community activities to enable collaborations that advance OHDSI’s mission
  • Leads Steering Workgroup to provide guidance and support to enable the community to collaboratively generate evidence and the scientific work products necessary to generate evidence
  • Supports current OHDSI leaders (workgroups, regional chapters, network studies, etc.) to achieve their objectives by communicating ongoing activities and successful accomplishments, encouraging participation and collaboration throughout the community, and empowering future leaders
  • Maintains infrastructure and provides support to connect collaborators with collaboration opportunities
  • Encourages more visitors to become collaborators
  • Provides open access to OHDSI evidence and work products, including:
    • Distributing standardized vocabularies
    • Supporting open-source software with permissive licenses
    • Encouraging open sharing of study design and implementation
    • Maintaining open access to study results

The OHDSI Advisory Board

Columbia University recently created the Advisory Board of Columbia OHDSI program.

The goal of the OHDSI Advisory Board is to ensure OHDSI operates according to the established values, vision, and mission. A seat on this board costs $100,000 per year. These funds are used to support costs associated with running OHDSI, including but not limited to programming and knowledge engineering support for the OHDSI vocabulary, cloud service management, data analytics, and the annual OHDSI conference. OHDSI Advisory Board members advise on OHDSI planned activities including vocabulary priorities, annual research initiatives, and tool development. 

If you are interested in learning more or in joining the board, please email George Hripcsak at [email protected].

If you would like more information about supporting the OHDSI central coordinating center, please contact [email protected]. Since OHDSI is a non-profit organization, your donation may be tax deductible.

The OHDSI community thanks you for your support!