The Health Data Initiative (HDI) at HHS aims to strategically share health datasets through HealthData.gov to foster innovation, improve data quality, and empower communities through data education and engagement. It works with the NCVHS Work Group and a network of Health Data Leads to promote a culture shift around data access and use, protect privacy, and develop policies to simplify and democratize health data for high-impact issues through challenges, communications, and identifying model use cases.