Translational Research

TRE TIG Week: Approaches to community engagement in evaluation research to improve translation: Lessons learned from the field by Christina Welter

My name is Christina Welter and I am a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Health Policy and Administration Division and the Interim Director of the DrPH in Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health (UIC SPH). One of my areas of focus and passion includes exploring how community engagement in …

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TRE TIG Week: Community Engagement Support Metrics within Translational Research

 Hi, I’m Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Director of Evaluation and Stakeholder-Academic Resource Panels (ShARPs) and Director of the Applied Practice Experience at Northwestern University. I am also co-chair of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG. Hi, I’m Keith Herzog, Administrative Director and Assistant Director of Evaluation, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and …

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TRE TIG Week: Development and evaluation of a consistent rating tool for knowledge uptake and use: The Knowledge Uptake and Utilization Tool (KUUT) by Kelly Skinner

I am Dr. Kelly Skinner, an independent evaluation consultant and Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo (UW) and program lead for the Master of Health Evaluation, and Jasmin Bhawra, a PhD Candidate at UW and evaluation consultant with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health. Our evaluation …

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TRE TIG Week: Adapting a Framework: Moving from Evaluating Science to Evaluating Practice by Lianne Estefan

Hi evaluators – my name is Lianne Estefan. I am a behavioral scientist in the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As part of this week’s posts showcasing examples of translational research, I am happy to share how we adapted CDC’s Science Impact Framework (SIF) (https://www.cdc.gov/od/science/impact/framework.html), an approach …

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TRE TIG Week: Mapping out Translational Research Stories using the NIEHS Translational Research Framework by Kristi Pettibone

Welcome y’all. I’m Kristi Pettibone and I have been an evaluator with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Durham, NC for almost 10 years. We are one of the 27 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health and are the only one that is not in the Bethesda/DC area. One …

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TRE TIG Week: Strengthening the Evaluation of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards by Tanha Patel

Hello, my name is Tanha Patel, an evaluator for one of the institutions funded as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program within in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Clinical and Translational Science (NCATS). Over the past year and a half, I have had the pleasure to work with a …

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TRE TIG Week: Results-Based Accountability (RBA): An Innovative Framework to Empower Collaborative Evaluation and Continuous Improvement by Keith Herzog, Jennifer Cooper, and Kristi Holmes

We are Keith Herzog, Jennifer Cooper, and Kristi Holmes, and we are excited to share some lessons learned from our experience implementing Results-Based Accountability (RBA) in two large, interdisciplinary programs, the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute and the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC), a cancer health equity partnership between three academic …

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TRE TIG Week: The use of needs assessment in supporting translational science by Lisle Hites

I hope you are all enjoying the Translational Research Evaluation TIG week on AEA 365! I’m Lisle Hites, incoming Program Chair of the TRE TIG and also Chair of the Needs Assessment TIG. In my spare time, I’m also an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Director of Evaluation for the Centers …

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TRE TIG Week: Using Social Network Analysis to Demonstrate Research Collaborations by Jessica Wakelee

My name is Jessica Wakelee, with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  As evaluators for our institution’s NIH Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) and CDC Prevention Research Center (PRC), one of our team’s tasks is to find ways to understand and demonstrate capacity for collaborative research.  This is a great need among the investigators on …

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TRE TIG Week: Why Evaluators Should Learn about Implementation Science and Research by Adrienne Zell

I am Adrienne Zell, Incoming Chair of the AEA Translational Research Evaluation TIG, and a Co-Director of the Evaluation Core at Oregon Health and Science University. Over the last 10 years, the rapidly evolving field of Implementation Research has made significant contributions to our understanding of the translation of evidence-based interventions (EBI) from demonstration, or …

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