In 2008, at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) prepared a report identifying knowledge gaps in public health systems preparedness and emergency response and recommending near-term priority research areas. In accordance with the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act mandating new public health systems research for preparedness and emergency response, CDC provided competitive awards establishing nine Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs) in accredited U.S. schools of public health. The PERRCs conducted research in four IOM-recommended priority areas: (1) enhancing the usefulness of public health preparedness and response (PHPR) training, (2) creating and maintaining sustainable preparedness and response systems, (3) improving PHPR communications, and (4) identifying evaluation criteria and metrics to improve PHPR for all hazards. The PERRCs worked closely with state and local public health, community partners, and advisory committees to produce practice-relevant research findings. PERRC research has generated more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and nearly 80 practice and policy tools and recommendations with the potential to significantly enhance our nation's PHPR to all hazards and that highlight the need for further improvements in public health systems.

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The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

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Statement of PurposeThis study’s purpose was to evaluate the National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control’s (NCIPC) extramural research portfolio to: (1) Determine the distribution of investment and how it aligns to the CDC Injury Research Agenda: 2009–2018; (2) Identify the contribution of research findings to further injury and violence prevention knowledge, research, and practice; (3) Identify gaps in our analysis.Methods/ApproachA retrospective data collection was conducted using outcomes identified in published articles and annual reports that were outputs of research awards funded under Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) published from 2009–2015. These outcomes were used to assess NCIPC’s funded research contribution to the injury and violence prevention field and evaluate their alignment with its research agenda.ResultsThe evaluation results determined the impact of research outcomes on advancing the injury and violence prevention field and the extent to which NCIPC’s funded research aligned with the research agenda. Preliminary findings indicated that the 34 FOAs announced from 2009–2015 included 94 awards, addressing multiple injury and violence prevention topic areas. These data suggest that some injury topic areas changed during this time. For example, poisoning-related injuries was changed in 2013 to focus on opioid overdose.Conclusions/Significance of FindingsThese findings will help determine the impact of outcomes from NCIPC’s funded research projects to advance the field of injury and violence prevention. In addition, NCIPC is currently developing a research priorities database that will include all extramural and intramural research activities, as well as capture the outputs and outcomes generated from these research activities. The findings from this project will serve as a benchmark for evaluation of NCIPC’s current research priorities and inform a more systematic approach for evaluating NCIPC’s research portfolio, including both quantitative and qualitative indicators.