Health Research, Inc.

Health Research, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Menands, New York, delivers epidemiological research, vital statistics data collection and analysis, disease surveillance, public health emergency preparedness, and health workforce development services to federal agencies as a prime contractor on contracts and cooperative agreements across civilian health and science agencies. The organization competes full-and-open without socioeconomic set-asides, operates across 67 distinct federal customer agencies, and has drawn $250 million in combined potential value across 480 recent awards (454 prime, 95%).

Health Research, Inc.'s customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) family and the Social Security Administration. The top five funding entities account for 72% of combined potential value: CDC Pittsburgh ($104.4 million across 47 awards), CDC's Office of Acquisition Services ($31.6 million across 18 awards), Social Security Administration ($19.3 million across 35 awards), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($14.9 million across 5 awards), and the National Cancer Institute ($9.1 million across 9 awards). By award count, CDC Pittsburgh ranks second with 47 awards, but a separate CDC entity leads in frequency with 97 awards carrying minimal potential value ($23 thousand combined), suggesting a large population of small data-collection and reporting orders. The Social Security Administration sustains recurring enumeration-at-birth and electronic death records programs in New York, with purchase orders running into 2027 and 2029.

Representative prime contract work spans multiple capability areas. Health Research, Inc. holds a $5.32 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with CDC Pittsburgh for the National Center for Health Statistics Vital Statistics Cooperative Program (VSCP), against which the organization draws recurring annual delivery orders of $664,296 each for data collection and reporting in New York with performance in Albany and Durham, North Carolina. The organization received a $9.914 million definitive contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in September 2024 for discovery and characterization of human B cell epitopes on bacterial surface antigens involved in Borrelia burgdorferi immunity, invoicing $1.2 million in FY2025 across 7,042 hours (3.4 FTEs) at a blended rate of $175.25 per hour with four named subcontractors accounting for 86 percent of labor. On the NICHD side, Health Research, Inc. holds orders for newborn screening pilot studies, including a $3.494 million task order for congenital cytomegalovirus follow-up work (invoiced $752 thousand in FY2025 with twelve subcontractors representing 98 percent of hours) and a $1.033 million order for metachromatic leukodystrophy pilot studies. The Social Security Administration awarded a $4.067 million purchase order extending through June 2029 for enumeration at birth and race and ethnicity records in New York.

Federal grant work spans CDC cooperative agreements on public health emergency preparedness, disease surveillance, and prevention programs. Health Research, Inc. is a recipient on CDC Investigations and Technical Assistance awards (CFDA 93.283) totaling $228,571 for food safety practice-based research through the Environmental Health Specialists Network and $389,145 for public health crisis response capacity (awarded June 2026 and September 2026 respectively, both multi-year). The organization holds recurring cooperative agreements from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for occupational safety and health statistics collection (CFDA 17.005, $124,507 awarded October 2025 for FY2026). Additional grant recipients include the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (Hospital Preparedness Program and Public Health Emergency Preparedness programs, cooperative agreements running through 2029), the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Emerging Infectious Diseases, $1–5 million annual range, five-year period through 2029), and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Rape Prevention and Education Program, five-year award through January 2029). Health Research, Inc. also received a $270,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant (Engineering, 47.041) for Legionella decision-support modeling research (August 2022–July 2025) and engages as a sub-recipient on research grants from Arizona State University, Emory University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and others in oncology, epidemiology, and data systems work.

Recent activity shows year-over-year growth from 2022 through 2024 (8 to 21 awards), with a slowdown to 13 awards in 2025 and 7 through September 2026 — a trajectory consistent with recompete cycles and program transitions rather than revenue decline. Nineteen awards face ultimate completion within the next 24 months, carrying $5.3 million in combined potential value and therefore representing recompete opportunity.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold), Health Research, Inc. invoiced $9.8 million in total across FY2022–FY2025, with pronounced year-to-year volatility: $3.1 million in FY2022 (432 FTEs contract-level), a drop to $399 thousand in FY2023 (0.4 FTEs), recovery to $2.6 million in FY2024 (28.1 FTEs), and $3.8 million in FY2025 (17.8 FTEs). This fluctuation reflects the episodic nature of research and program-delivery awards rather than operational instability. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts span from a 10th percentile of $8.74 per hour to a median of $58.06 per hour and a 90th percentile of $422.16 per hour, indicating a labor mix ranging from data-entry and clerical support at the low end to senior scientific and epidemiological staff at the high end. On SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors account for an average of 9 percent of total contractor hours across the portfolio, with 37 named subcontractors cited across records — a posture consistent with Health Research, Inc. building its own delivery teams for operational public health work while engaging specialists on research projects where external expertise (molecular biology, statistical modeling, laboratory testing) justifies subcontracting.

Health Research, Inc. operates as a parent nonprofit with seven named subsidiary entities, all registered as non-profit organizations. The subsidiary naming structure does not appear to carry distinct capability or market framing in the award record; subsidiary names are largely replications of the parent entity name and likely reflect administrative or legal structuring rather than distinct business lines.