PBRN Round I Grantees

SESSION AUDIO:
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MODERATOR:
Glen Mays, Ph.D., M.P.H.

PANELISTS:

Justeen Hyde, Ph.D.
Lisa VanRaemdonck, M.P.H., M.S.W.
Betty Bekemeier, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.N.
Sarah Wilding, RN, M.P.A.
Ed Baker, M.D.

Translational Research Through Public Health Practice Based Research Networks:
Methods, Findings and Lessons Learned

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recognized the promise of practice-based research networks (PBRNs), long successful in clinical settings, for narrowing the evidence chasm in the effective organization, financing and delivery of public health services. The inaugural cohort of RWJF’s Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program will report on the methodologies and results of their initial research projects, including newly emerging research opportunities, and current large-scale projects examining the adoption of evidence-based practices.  Representatives of the Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington PBRNs will share results of work ranging from comparative analyses of public health practices across settings, both in routine and crisis contexts; natural experiments examining changes in state public health legislation, including organizational structure and distribution of authority; and how quality improvement strategies, community partnerships, and financing and budgetary changes influence the adoption of evidence-based practices.