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Norman, Oklahoma

Ambitious projects typically entail enormous complexity, and this is no
exception. This is a mash-up of big data, genomics, and myriad ethical and
social issues. If NIH and its partners can pull it off, the discoveries would
shape human health for generations to come. However, the road blocks
(financial, practical, sociocultural, and technical) are formidable and the
track record of the Institute on past projects of similar magnitude (Cancer
Biomedical Informatics Grid, National Children's Study) did not bear full
fruit despite massive federal investments.

As a researcher who has worked with some of the organizations mentioned in
this article, I am watching All Of Us with a mix of optimism and skepticism.
Bringing disparate collaborators together on something of this scale
definitely takes time, effort, patience, and ""conference calls upon
conference calls"" in order to gain alignment around goals, design, methods,
and data governance. I'm willing to be patient a while longer, knowing the
potentially transformative impact of the results.

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