On May 1, 2018, Keck School of Medicine of USC and nationwide partners launched a landmark $1.5 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) -led program to accelerate the development of precision medicine.

The All of Us Research Program opened for enrollment on May 6. Led by the NIH, All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the United States.

Unlike research studies that are focused on a specific disease or population, All of Us will serve as a national research resource to inform thousands of studies. It will cover a wide variety of health conditions.

Researchers will be able to access data from the program to learn more about how individual differences in lifestyle, environment and biological makeup can influence health and disease. Participants will be able to access their own health information, summary data about the entire participant community, as well as information about studies and findings that come from All of Us.

One of the project’s priorities was to achieve a demographically, geographically and medically diverse community of participants, especially by including those who are underrepresented in biomedical research.