Practice-Based Research Network
For this two-year initiative the Central Partnership seeks to build a practice-based research network by increasing local health departments' capacity to drive funding priorities on this issue locally, statewide, and nationally.
In the first year, energies will focus on building collaborative relationships across multiple public health occupational groups to develop practice-based research agenda networks in local health departments.
In the second year, public health worker networks continue to prioritize issues and collect feedback from other public health workers across the state to use for advocacy, intervention, and policy development together with Schools of Public Health and other research partners.
Resources
Demonstrating Excellence in Practice-Based Research for Public
Health Sponsored by Association of Schools of Public
Health, Council of Public Health Practice Coordinators
This
document defines scholarly, practice-based research; describes its
various approaches, models, and methods; explores ways to overcome
its challenges; and, recommends actions for its stakeholders in both
academic and practice communities.
Public Health Systems & Services Research Organization
Public Health Systems & Services Research (PHSSR) is a new national program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) designed to build awareness of this new field focused on the organization, financing, delivery and impact of public health services.
- Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Newsletter (Issue #5, Week of Feb. 20, 2009) (pdf) This newsletter provides weekly updates on events, activities, topic-related journals, important related dates, and funding opportunities for public health systems research. Sign up to receive the weekly newsletter or join the online network on the PHSSR website.
North Carolina Practice-Based Research Network (NCPBRN) Summary
The following presentation, developed by the Central Partnership, provides a summary of the NCPBRN including background, focus group findings, topic methodology, goals, potential strategies, and timeline.
North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS)
The following website provides an array of information on translational and clinical research (made possible by a University of North Carolina Clinical and Translational Sciences Award in May 2008). The mission of NC TraCS "is to transform all activities relating to clinical and translational research by creating new programs and pathways that make it easier for research to be performed at UNC and throughout the State of North Carolina." Learn more by following the link below:
Tools Developed
Practice Based Research in Public Health Discussion featuring the emerging area of Public Health Systems and Services Research
Keynote Presentation by Dr. Larry Green of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco and Co-Director, Program on Society, Diversity, and Disparities, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Green is recently retired from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he directed a program for investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed, community-based participatory research. Dr. Green also co-chaired a workgroup for the CDC-wide Strategic Development Initiative which made recommendations for the CDC's next decade of research priorities and approaches.
Come learn about new opportunities for collaboration.
Hosted by the Central North Carolina Public Health Incubator Collaborative and the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Thursday October 29th, 2009
1pm - 4pm, Chapel Hill, NC
RSVP: Lisa Harrison Lisa_Harrison@unc.edu 919.843.5559