Enacted through state legislation, the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project is designed to enable and promote population health research that leads to improvements in the health, safety, security, and well-being of New Jersey residents, as well as improvements in the cost-efficiency of state programs. The overarching concept of the iPHD is that programmatic data are much more informative when they are linked across different service areas than when they remain in isolation from one another. The iPHD Project is housed at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy (CSHP) and modeled on other successful data integration projects around the country.