What NIMHD does

NIMHD (National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities) is a U.S. federal research institute within the National Institutes of Health, established in 1990 as the Office of Minority Programs and elevated to full Institute status in 2000. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with 51–100 staff, its statutory mission is to lead scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities across the United States and its territories. NIMHD serves academic researchers, healthcare professionals, community health workers, public health professionals, policymakers, and the general public through research funding, training programs, and free public resources.

Name

NIMHD

Legal name

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Website

https://nimhd.nih.gov

Company type

Public

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

NIMHD is a U.S. federal research institute within NIH that leads scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities, serving academic researchers, healthcare professionals, community health workers, and policymakers through free cloud-based data platforms, intervention repositories, and grant funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Federal Health Research and Disparities Science

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Research Funding Agencies (Public/Quasi-Public) (HLAJALAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Chronic Disease & Health Promotion Program Funding (HLAJALAJ)

Keywords

• Health disparities research
• Minority health science
• Biomedical research funding
• Population health data
• Clinical research support

Headquarters

HQ city

Bethesda

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Others, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

NIMHD leads scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities in the United States and its territories. It funds and conducts extramural and intramural research across clinical care, health services, community health, data science, population science, and integrative biological and behavioral sciences. The institute provides free cloud-based research platforms (SCHARE, HDPulse), evidence-based intervention repositories, social determinants measurement toolkits, and extramural research grants to academic researchers, healthcare professionals, and public health practitioners.

Product overview

NIMHD (National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities) operates as a federal research institute rather than a commercial product company. Its technology offerings include SCHARE, a cloud-based AI-powered population science data platform that provides centralized access to datasets and computational tools for health disparities research. The HDPulse ecosystem comprises two portals: a Data Portal providing visualizations of health disparities data at national, state, and county levels, and an Interventions Portal offering a searchable repository of evidence-based interventions. Supporting resources include the PhenX SDOH Toolkit for social determinants measurement, training programs like the Health Disparities Research Institute, the DEBUT Challenge for biomedical engineering innovation, and the annual National Minority Health Month observance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• HD*Pulse*: Health Disparities and Minority Health Resources portal providing data and interventions portal for minority health research
• SCHARE
• PhenX SDOH Toolkit

Products and services

• SCHARE (Science Collaborative for Health and Artificial Intelligence Reduction of Errors) A cloud-based population science data platform providing centralized access to datasets, secure workspaces, and computational tools for health disparities research, with Terra-based infrastructure enabling AI/ML model development. Built for researchers investigating minority health, social determinants of health, and population health outcomes.
• HDPulse Ecosystem An ecosystem of health disparities and minority health resources combining a Data Portal with interactive visualizations and maps for assessing health disparities at national, state, and county levels, alongside an Interventions Portal housing research-tested evidence-based interventions for minority health improvement. Designed for researchers, healthcare providers, and communities working to address health disparities.
• PhenX SDOH Toolkit The PhenX Social Determinants of Health Collection available within the PhenX Toolkit, expanding data protocols to help measure individual and societal-level factors shaping behaviors and health outcomes. Provides standardized measurement protocols for use in health disparities and minority health research.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20,000 African American men enrolled in RESPOND prostate cancer study
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 March 2024NCI partnered with NIMHD on the $26.5 million RESPOND study investigating aggressive prostate cancer in African American men. NCI provides funding from the 21st Century Cures Cancer Moonshot Initiative and leads the study through its Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIMHD partners with NHLBI on the Breathe Better Network to raise awareness about lung health, including asthma disparities which disproportionately affect Puerto Ricans. NIMHD aims to reduce lung health disparities through this collaboration.
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIMHD partners with NIBIB on the DEBUT Challenge (Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams) to challenge undergraduate students to develop solutions to unmet health care needs in low-resource settings.
• Healthy Hearts NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIMHD partners with the Healthy Hearts Network to increase awareness about heart disease and its risk factors. The national network is supported by The Heart Truth program and led by NHLBI.
• HHS Office of Minority HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNIMHD partners with the HHS Office of Minority Health during National Minority Health Month each April to promote health improvement through cultures, communities, and connections.
• Healthy Mind Initiative PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCross-sector collaboration including federal, county, and community partners focusing on mental health literacy among Asian American and Pacific Islander youth and families with emphasis on prevention and early detection.
• Terra.biocoreTechnology or IntegrationTerra is the open-source platform powering SCHARE (Science Collaborative for Health and AI Reduction of Errors), providing cloud-based biomedical research infrastructure including data access, analysis tools, and collaboration capabilities.
• African Ancestry Prostate Cancer (AAPC) ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYears-long research collaboration contributing additional information and samples from 10,000 African American men with prostate cancer to the RESPOND study.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Federal agency funding health services and outcomes research, overlapping with NIMHD's health systems and health services research portfolio. Comparable scale and federal-grant funding model.

Direct peers

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): NIH sister institute operating under the same federal appropriation and intramural/extramural model. NIMHD's mental health disparities research overlaps directly with NIMH's portfolio.
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI): NIH sister institute co-funding the $5.8M Genomic Data Science Educational Hub with NIMHD. Comparable federal funder model with overlapping interest in population genomics.
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB): NIH sister institute that co-runs the DEBUT Challenge with NIMHD for biomedical solutions in low-resource settings. Comparable as a federal research funder targeting health technology development.
• HHS Office of Minority Health: Federal partner co-hosting National Minority Health Month activities with NIMHD. Shares mission focus on minority health improvement and federal funding model.
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): NIH sister institute partnering with NIMHD on the Breathe Better Network addressing lung health disparities in Puerto Rican populations. Closely comparable in mandate, funding model, and intramural/extramural structure.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major private foundation funding health equity and health disparities research nationally. Closest private-sector analog to NIMHD's mission and grantee model, operating at similar scale via extramural funding.
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): NIH sister institute that co-funds and co-leads the RESPOND study with NIMHD. Operates as a peer federal funder and collaborator on cancer disparities research, sharing the NIH federal funding and intramural research model.

Emerging players

• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): Independent nonprofit funder of comparative clinical effectiveness research, overlapping with NIMHD's clinical care and health services research focus. Comparable grant-maker operating model.
• All of Us Research Program (NIH): NIH precision medicine cohort program emphasizing diverse enrollment and sharing population-scale biomedical data. Comparable in mission to NIMHD's population science data work via SCHARE and a partial partner/competitor for researcher attention.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments17 records

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