The All of Us Research Program: A National Initiative with Implications on the Future of Health Care
Webinar Description
This webinar will explain AACN’s role in the All of Us Research Program’s Community and Provider Gateway Initiative (CPGI) and the grant application process for phase five. This webinar will provide participants with an overview of this national initiative. This webinar will provide participants with an overview of this national initiative. We will also leave time at the end to consider questions on how this program will impact the future of health care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. More details on the All of Us Research Program can be found at JoinAllofUs.org/together.
Objectives:
- Describe the All of Us Research Program
- Explain the Precision Medicine Initiative Provider Toolkit
- Discuss what this data set means to the research of the future
Speakers

Director of Policy
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
Colleen Leners is the Director of Policy at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). AACN serves as the voice of academic nursing, encompassing education, research, and practice. Dr. Leners was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator John Thune (R-SD) of the Senate Finance Committee. She has maintained an active family nurse practitioner practice for over 25 years and has served our country in the United States Army Nurse Corps, which after multiple deployments overseas was honorably discharged. She has many notable achievements both civilian and military, she has been inducted as a Fellow Academy of Nursing, Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and awarded the Bronze Star for her service overseas.
Dr. Leners has served as the Traumatic Brain Injury Program manager, created a nurse-managed primary care clinic for Wounded Warriors at Navy Medical Center San Diego. She has also been a registered nurse and nurse practitioner for three decades. She received her DNP in Leadership from Case Western Reserve University, MSN FNP from University of San Diego and her BSN from California State University Dominguez Hills.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits:

Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.