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The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, an NIH program launched three years ago to improve COVID-19 diagnostics, has awarded $9 million to support the first Indigenous-led Tribal Data Repository in the U.S.“It's an absolutely beautiful way for not only respecting tribal data sovereignty, but also operationalizing that respect and giving us the exact resources

The project will be led by Native scientists to help improve health in tribal communities. The project, called Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Tribal Data Repository (TDR): Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, and Innovations (D4I),  is a secure NIH data hub for the use of anonymized Indigenous data in health research.