Collaborators

Food and Drug Administration

The FDA, via the Sentinel Initiative, provides all funding for Mini-Sentinel, determines all priorities, and retains ultimate decision-making authority. FDA administers the contract, issues all project requests, and reviews all work products.

Collaborating Institutions

The Mini-Sentinel Collaborating Institutions include both Data and Academic Partners that provide access to healthcare data and scientific, technical, methodologic, and organizational expertise as needed to meet the requirements of the project. Representatives of the Collaborating Institutions participate in various capacities, including as members of the Planning Board, the Safety Science Committee, the Project Operations Committee, the Data, Methods, and Protocol Cores, and workgroups engaged in specific projects and other Mini-Sentinel activities.

The Collaborating Institutions as of July 1, 2012, are listed here. Additional institutional and individual collaborators may be added as needs evolve.

• Aetna: Aetna Informatics*
• America’s Health Insurance Plans: Clinical Affairs Department
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: James M Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence
• Columbia University: Department of Statistics
• Critical Path Institute
• Duke Clinical Research Institute
• HealthCore, Inc.*
• HMO Research Network
• Group Health Research Institute*
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute*
• HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research*
• Henry Ford Health System: Public Health Sciences Department*
• Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation*
• Meyers Primary Care Institute*
• Humana: Comprehensive Health Insights, Inc.*
• Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research*
• Lovelace Clinic Foundation*
• OptumInsight, Inc.*
• Outcome Sciences, Inc., a Quintiles company
• Rutgers University: Center for Health Services Research on Pharmacotherapy, Chronic Disease Management and Outcomes at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
• University of Alabama at Birmingham: Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education
• University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center: Departments of Pharmacy Administration, Pharmacy Practice, General Internal Medicine, and Biostatistics
• University of Iowa: Department of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health
• University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center*
• Weill Cornell Medical College: Department of Public Health

* Indicate Collaborating Institutions that are also Data Partners