Participants in our study will contribute a complete catalog of information about their health, environment, and lifestyle to form a rich data repository. This resource will be available to researchers across diverse disciplines to probe the confluence of factors that shape individual differences in outcomes.

However, where past studies involving humans look at their subjects as simply that, participants for the Kavli HUMAN Project will not only be providing their data for the Project, but will be actively engaged in the governance of the Project. Members of the KHP will have the opportunity to be a part of the Project’s Data Governance Advisory Council, which will select and oversee what kind of research is conducted using the KHP database. Project participants will be an essential conduit for communicating the research conducted with KHP data to their fellow study volunteers. Even more importantly, participants will be contributing their data for the greater good of their community, in addition to helping accomplish groundbreaking science.

Interested in being a Kavli Human? Our study participants will be selected at random using rigorous survey methodologies to be as representative a sample of the population of New York City (all five boroughs) as possible. But if you live in New York City you’re eligible to join and we hope you will if selected!

Following our the selection of the main cohort of some 10,000 people, we will then set up a complementary crowdsource cohort of an additional 100,000 New York City residents who can participate in smaller but still meaningful ways.