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OHDSI Sponsorship Helps Provide A Foundation For Our Global Research Efforts

The OHDSI community is comprised of a global team of volunteers who collaborate together using open-source tools and shared best practices to support our shared mission of generating real-world evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care. In order to foster growth in our community of nearly 3,000 volunteers across six continents, the OHDSI Coordinating Center at Columbia University has created a sponsorship program.

Check out our OHDSI sponsors page here.

This program allows both corporations and individuals to make meaningful contributions in support of OHDSI’s central coordinating activities. There are three levels of support, including donation amount and benefits to the sponsor, detailed below. Any level of support enhances both our community and our mission.

Below the sponsorship level information is a section about how your sponsorship impacts our community. To learn more about OHDSI’s activities, achievements and many other aspects of our global community, please search our webpage or check out our 2021 Annual Report: Our Journey.

Sponsorship Levels

GOLD

• Donation level: US $500k/year
• Your logo (max size: 400×185) will be placed on our OHDSI Sponsors page with link to your home page
   – Logo placed in top section under Gold Level Sponsors heading
   – Logo placed in alphabetical order
   – Logo placed in a two-column row
• Use of OHDSI Gold Sponsor logo on your site
• Joint press release with OHDSI

• Annual meeting with OHDSI leadership to learn about current and future initiatives, and participate in an OHDSI sponsor question & answer session
• Weekly logo placement on title slide of OHDSI community call (average >=180 listeners per week)
• Logo placement on monthly “Thank You Sponsors” slide during OHDSI community call
• Sponsors Spotlight feature (Q&A with a member of your organization) placed on website and newsletter
• Monthly recognition on OHDSI Twitter (2300+ followers) and LinkedIn (3100+) pages
• Inclusion in “Thank You Sponsors” graphic in all OHDSI monthly newsletters (4200+ on mailing list)
• Listing in all OHDSI annual reports: Our Journey
• Recognition at all OHDSI in-person events

SILVER

• Donation level: US $100k/year
• Your logo (max size: 225×110) will be placed on our OHDSI Sponsors page with link to your home page
   – Logo placed in middle section under Silver Level Sponsors heading
   – Logo placed in alphabetical order
   – Logo placed in a three-column row
• Use of OHDSI Silver Sponsor logo on your site
• Quote for your press release 

• Annual meeting with OHDSI leadership to learn about current and future initiatives, and participate in an OHDSI sponsor question & answer session 
• Logo placement on monthly “Thank You Sponsors” slide during OHDSI community call
• Sponsors Spotlight feature (Q&A with a member of your organization) placed on website and newsletter
• Annual recognition on OHDSI Twitter (2300+ followers) and LinkedIn (3100+) pages
• Inclusion in “Thank You Sponsors” graphic in all OHDSI monthly newsletters (4200+ on mailing list)
• Listing in all OHDSI annual reports: Our Journey
• Recognition at all OHDSI in-person events

BRONZE

• Donation level: US $25k/year
• Your logo (max size: 160×72) will be placed on our OHDSI Sponsors page with link to your home page
– Logo placed in bottom section under Bronze Sponsors heading
– Logo placed in alphabetical order 
– Logo placed in a four-column row
• Use of OHDSI Bronze Sponsor logo on your site
• Logo placement on monthly “Thank You Sponsors” slide during OHDSI community call

• Inclusion in “Thank You Sponsors” graphic in all OHDSI monthly newsletters (4200+ on mailing list)
• Listing in all OHDSI annual reports: Our Journey
• Recognition at all OHDSI in-person events 

Why Should I Sponsor OHDSI?

The OHDSI Central Coordinating Center provides support for the OHDSI open-source community and the community’s mission to improve health by empowering a community to collaboratively generate the evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care. OHDSI collaborates in many aspects of the journey from data to evidence, including open community data standards, open source software development, open methodological research, and open network clinical research.  

The OHDSI central coordinating center facilitates these collaborations by providing a central shared infrastructure and coordinating community activities that allow individuals from diverse backgrounds, disciplinary perspectives, stakeholder representation, and geographies to come together for a common cause. The OHDSI central coordinating center is responsible for the maintenance and release of the OHDSI standardized vocabularies, an integrated biomedical ontology and knowledge resource that is made public and has been 

What Does The OHDSI Coordinating Center Do, And How Does Your Sponsorship Impact OHDSI's Future? (presentation by George Hripcsak)

downloaded >50,000 times by more than 1500 organizations. The OHDSI central coordinating center built and maintains a central computing environment to enable community open-source analytics development, providing an infrastructure for continuous integrating testing across multiple relational database platforms for open-source tools such as HADES and WebAPI/ATLAS. The OHDSI coordinating center also hosts servers that provide demonstration and collaboration environments to give community members opportunities to learn about OHDSI best practices and capabilities, and to apply them within their own research activities.

The OHDSI central coordinating center also organizes the annual OHDSI Symposium, a multi-day event that brings individuals together to share their ongoing research, learn from the community, and create new collaboration opportunities. OHDSI community communications, including weekly community calls, monthly newsletters, annual reports, our website, forums, and social media, are all led by the OHDSI central coordinating center. 

Your sponsorship funding will be used by the OHDSI central coordinating center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center to finance the expenses associated with these activities. This includes funding for vocabulary development, central computing infrastructure, and community event costs (hotel, food, audio/visual), as well as support staff for project management, communications, and administration. Because Columbia University is a non-profit organization, sponsorship can have tax benefits.   

By sponsoring the OHDSI central coordinating center, you show your support for OHDSI’s mission and help sustain our community. You also demonstrate a commitment to the principles of open science and the opportunities this brings to improve health care. 

I Want To Sponsor OHDSI! How Do I Do It?

If you would like more information about supporting the OHDSI central coordinating center, please contact sponsorship@ohdsi.org. We handle sponsorships differently from other one-time donations, so if you want your contributions to be part of the sponsorship program (and receive the benefits of the program), we will be delighted to work with you. All sponsorship information will be kept in confidence.

Your sponsorship runs for one year after the date of receipt of payment. During this period, we display your logo on the Sponsors homepage on our website. Two months before the end of your sponsorship, we will contact you (via the same mechanism we used to arrange the initial sponsorship) requesting renewal. If renewal does not take place by the renewal date of the sponsorship, the OHDSI coordinating center may remove your logo from the sponsors page. 

The OHDSI community appreciates donations of any size. If you are interested in donating to OHDSI at a different level than annual sponsorship, please contact sponsorship@ohdsi.org, and we will be delighted to partner with you. Since OHDSI is a non-profit organization, your donation may be tax deductible.

The OHDSI community thanks you for your support! 

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