Traumatic Injury Research at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2009) / Chapter Skim
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4 Recommendations for Program Improvement
4 Recommendations for Program Improvement
Pages 127-136
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With some exceptions, as discussed in Chapter 2, the program worked in areas of public health importance and documented intermediate outcomes. The committee has concluded that the TI Research Program successes (as defined by the activities, outputs, and outcomes reviewed)
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Given its limited resources, the TI Research Program should continue a research focus and priority setting on goals that are well defined, are based on rigorous surveillance data, and are complementary to work being done by stakeholders, extramural research partners, or other agencies.
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Coordination and Collaboration Given that the TI Research Program operates under severely limited resources, it not only must be strategic in selecting its priorities, as discussed previously, but must also position itself to benefit from collaborations within the federal government and with academic researchers and state agencies. These collaborations and coordinating activities will help the TI Research Program prioritize its activities in order to complement work elsewhere or to avoid duplication of effort.
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The TI Research Program should involve other relevant federal and state agencies in developing a cohesive interagency effort. As noted in Chapter 2 as well as other evaluation committee reports, the role of OSHA in implementing regulatory actions is a significant external factor to the success of NIOSH research.
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There is a spectrum of approaches to this dilemma -- ranging from structuring the intramural program to fill gaps not likely to be filled by extramural researchers, to directing extramural research funding to fill gaps within the intramural program, as well as everything in between. The committee encourages the TI Research Program to follow a middle ground.
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The committee is aware of regular, collabora tive interactions between intramural and extramural researchers in other NIOSH programs and encourages the TI Research Program to explore those models if it has not done so already. Further, the committee urges that NIOSH extend its efforts in collaboration and coordination within NIOSH programs.
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NIOSH should embark on a program to increase the visibility of traumatic injury research in order to attract new researchers. Absent a significant in crease in research funding, the TI Research Program can still attempt to influence the number of ERCs that have a focus on safety research and can still disseminate information about the quality, impact, and scientific challenges of traumatic injury research, as well as the dy namic changes in the field that go beyond the confines of traditional safety engineering.
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Experts in translation should be included in project teams. As the TI Research Program develops better tracking of extramural research projects, translation activities regarding the outcomes of this research can be planned, whether through translation components included in the extramural research or by collaborations with the NIOSH transfer experts.
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The committee underscores the importance of TI Research Program collaboration with these other NIOSH program areas as well as the NIOSH Program on Occupational Health Disparities.
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The TI Research Program is aware of the need for these activities and is working to ad dress all of them. The committee hopes that these recommendations are useful in supporting and encouraging its efforts.
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