Managing re-identification risks while providing access to theresearch program

Weiyi Xia, Melissa A. Basford, Robert J. Carroll, Ellen Wright Clayton, Paul A. Harris, Murat Kantarcioglu, Yongtai Liu, Steve Nyemba, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Zhiyu Wan, Bradley A. Malin

Abstract: The All of Us Research Program makes individual-level data available to researchers while protecting the participants’ privacy. This article describes the protections embedded in the multistep access process, with a particular focus on how the data was transformed to meet generally accepted re-identification risk levels.