Mission and Services
Who Are We?
The National Addiction and Health Data Archive Program (NAHDAP)’s mission is to facilitate research on substance use and health by acquiring, enhancing, preserving, and sharing data produced by research grants. NAHDAP supports secondary data analysis through technical assistance and specialized training for data depositors and data users in the substance use and health research and policy communities.
NAHDAP is hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest social science data archive in the world and part of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. NAHDAP is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. NIDA’s mission is to advance science on drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
NAHDAP’s staff consists of professional researchers, data curators, project managers, technicians, and others working together to promote the sharing and use of data relevant to substance use and health researchers and policy makers.
We offer the following services to data depositors, data users, and the broader research community:
Data Depositor Services
- Consultation during grant proposal preparation
- Review of data management and sharing plans
- Support for data governance and agreements
- Technical assistance calls to plan deposit
- Data review and guidance on data preparation
- Letters of support
Data User Services
- Technical assistance via email, phone, and video consultation
- Restricted-use data application support
- Assistance with finding and using NAHDAP data
- Bibliographic support for all data in the NAHDAP archive
Education and Training Services
- Workshops in ICPSR’s Summer Program on Quantitative Methods
- Webinars and presentations on NAHDAP’s services and data
- Conference short courses to facilitate data sharing
- Links to external learning resources