Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Center (SADaCC) is an administrative and data standardization and coordinating center for Sickle Cell Disease which is funded by the NHLBI (NIH). Its current mandate is to focus on supporting and coordinating data for a partner research network, SPARCO with plans to expand this support to the Sickle Cell Pan African Network in the future.SADaCC’s mandate is to support, enhance and coordinate SPARCO communications and data relevant issues, with future plans aimed at being a global SCD data standards and coordinating center.