The National Institutes of Health is preparing for a new data management policy in 2023 that will require researchers to plan for how they’re going to manage and share their data. Ahead of this and faced with growing pressure to keep up with the increasing amounts of generated data, NIH leadership is working to broaden a key initiative that has made massive amounts of data available to biomedical researchers over the past few years.
Since 2018, the Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative has harnessed cloud environments to help the agency revolutionize how and who can access data.
“It enables us to connect our data platforms so we’re creating more than just a lot of data silos,” NIH Officer of Data Science Strategy Director Susan Gregurick told GovCIO Media & Research. The STRIDES Initiative is one of NIH’s efforts to implement its overall data science strategic plan, a new version of which is expected in mid-2023. “No matter where you are or who you are in doing research, you can connect across our data platforms to find the data and do the analysis that you want. That’s the goal.”…