Research Resources
Evaluation Research Core
The Institute of Translational Health Science's Evaluation Research Core (ERC)
provides flexible and integrated evaluation services enabling the ITHS to
remain responsive to the evolving needs of its membership and constituencies.
This includes examination of ITHS investigators, trainees and scholars, and
community research activities. One focus of the ERC core is documenting ITHS
activities and reporting on these activities to better define and influence
short-term outcomes and longer range goals of the ITHS. To this end, the ERC
is assisting in the establishment of ongoing quality assurance (QA) and
continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities for the ITHS. A second focus of the ERC is to conduct innovative evaluation research to better describe and inform the impact of the ITHS on the conduct of translational research.
ERC Specific Aims:
- Oversee and implement process evaluations to ensure quality, efficiency,
and productivity in each ITHS core and implement summative or outcomes evaluation related to research and training activities.
- Identify barriers to and facilitators of the conduct of clinical/translational research.
- Apply traditional and novel evaluation approaches to examine how macro-level ITHS infrastructure created to support a research collaboratory affects the micro-level interactions of individual collaborators and teams of collaborators
- Apply traditional and novel evaluation approaches to describe the impact of the ITHS on the development of and conduct of translational collaborative research locally in the Puget Sound region, regionally, and nationally, and its longer-term impact on health practices and community health.
Quick Link:
Take a Survey
Questions?
Contact email: ithserc@u.washington.edu
Director:
Fred Wolf, PhD
Professor and Chair, Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
Co-Directors:
Doug Brock, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
Lynne Robins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics