Allie Gartland-Gray

Allie Gartland-Gray is a data strategist who works closely with interdisciplinary teams to ensure data is properly managed, shared, and utilized to drive meaningful insights and discoveries. She leverages her background in biology and biomedical health and informatics to help develop tools and guidance for research data governance, curation, and deposition. Allie supports large research consortiums, networks, and individual researchers by providing resources and guidance for data management and sharing according to the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) principles and has extensive experience supporting large-scale data standardization and harmonization efforts. 

Allie serves as a subject matter expert on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Data Stewards project, which supports collaboration between researchers, health care providers, community leaders, policy makers and other HEAL stakeholders by making HEAL data more FAIR. She led the evaluation of over 100 data repositories and provides individualized data sharing guidance for researchers in accordance with NIH’s Data Management and Sharing Policy. Allie is also the Principal Investigator for the Duke Superfund Data Management and Analysis Core project, which provides high-quality strategy and implementation of data management, sharing, and reproducible research standards for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program. On both projects, Allie leads the development and implementation of data assert inventories to aid in understanding complex data landscapes. 

She has also helped advanced knowledge and data sharing to improve research outcomes through her roles as a data steward on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Research and Development of Vaccines and Monoclonal Antibodies for Pandemic Preparedness (ReVAMPP) Coordinating and Data Sharing Center and as a data scientist on the NIH LitCoin Foundational Knowledge Graph Generation Program. 

Allie is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP).