Session: Realizing the Vision: A National Public Health Research Agenda

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3293.1: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral

Realizing the Vision: A National Public Health Research Agenda

In January 2005, CDC/ATSDR embarked on a landmark effort to develop the first-ever comprehensive, long-term national public health research agenda – the Health Protection Research Guide, 2006-2015 – shining a spotlight on public health as never before. The Research Guide was designed as a blueprint for research areas that should be addressed during the next decade by CDC and its partners to meet critical public health needs at home and abroad. The Research Guide was developed with great transparency and extensive engagement of CDC staff, diverse partners and the public at every phase. Now that the Research Guide has been developed, the next step is to use it to frame a national dialogue on how to build broad support for public health research. In this session, we will hear from a number of perspectives. CDC/ATSDR will set the stage by describing how the Research Guide was developed and how it is intended to be used. We will next learn the views of the American public on its understanding of public health and its support for research. We will hear from a state health department representative on how a national research agenda can support state and local public health research needs to improve public health programs and services. Finally, we will engage in a dialogue on the role APHA can play in realizing the vision of a national public health research agenda.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Articulate how the Health Protection Research Guide, 2006-2015, can be used to promote broad public support for public health research that will address critical national and global public health needs. 2. Understand the attitudes of the American public towards funding of public health research in order to more effectively communicate the importance of supporting such research. 3. Learn how a state health department can align its research programs with a national public health research agenda to improve the state’s public health programs and services more effectively. 4. Understand how APHA, as an organization and as individual members, can act to build a movement to support public health research at the local, state, regional, national and international levels.

Moderator(s):

Jamila Rashid, PhD, MS

2:30 PM

From vision to reality: The first national public health research agenda