Tribal Epidemiology Center Data Access (TEC PHI request process)

Indian Health Service, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention

Published guidance letting Tribal Epidemiology Centers obtain IHS protected health information as public health authorities, with data use agreements and request templates. It is the practical route to IHS data for tribally partnered research.

Indicative award

Not a cash award (not a cash award)A data access pathway, not a funding award. No figures published.

Timing

Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Requests are accepted on a rolling basis and reviewed by IHS Headquarters Office of Public Health Support.

Who can apply

Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner, Community organisation

Eligibility

The requester must be a Tribal Epidemiology Center operating under public health authority; universities cannot request through this channel directly and must work with a TEC. Requires a Data Use Agreement, an authorization email, and individual Rules of Behavior acknowledgement, with requests to epidata@ihs.gov.

SSWR clusters

Topics

data access · tribal data governance · public health authority · data use agreements

Apply at

https://www.ihs.gov/epi/tecs/tec-data-access-guidance/

This entry

Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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Tribal Epidemiology Center Data Access (TEC PHI request process)

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