Measuring Indirect Benefits of a CTSA

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Measuring Indirect Benefits of a CTSA

• Ann Dozier
• Facilitator

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General factors to consider

• Benefits to Whom - Defining and thinking about
  stakeholders on multiple levels
• Who are they
• What are their needs
• What are the benefits to them
• How to communicate to them
• Haves and have nots
• Now and after 60
• Not always benefits can be effects
• Timeline for seeing benefits
• How do your measure these?

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Benefit Areas

• Economic Impact
• Undergraduate Education/curriculum
• Career recruitment
• Encouraging collaborations
• Amongst traditionally poor collaborators
• Development of collaborative models that can be
  disseminated
• New partnerships
• Within and across institutions
• Industry
• Non-profit
• Federal government agencies and center programs
• Invoking change in how groups and individuals
  interact -inclusive mind set
• Pulling together individuals with unique skill
  sets

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Benefit Areas

• If the CTSA is the community, there is a two
  way benefit stream between the community and
  those accessing the community
• Acknowledgement that there will be negatives,
  harms, and unintended consequences
• opportunities for improvement
• Users can be patients, researchers, program
  officers, etc.
• How is this working to identify and fill gaps?
• The opportunity to break down miss-conceptions
  about the community goals, motivations,
  building trust
• Having resources to provide guidance to
  non-traditional users

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Benefit Areas

• Culture change
• Valuing clinical and translational research
• Bad culture for research attributed to IRB
  process to good culture for conducting research
• Secondary and tertiary effects
  anthropologically etc
• Developing relationships with new communities
• Impact on NIH data systems, long term tracking,
  and data collection
• Investigator registration in the commons
• Publications and publication records and
  attribution to grant awards
• Data management

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Benefit Areas

• Opportunities to find new ways to demonstrate
  advancement to the various audiences, or include
  them in the process e.g. legislative
  bodies/individuals.
• Identifying and sharing secondary and tertiary
  benefits
• Involving International and remote locations
• In thinking about how to make the case new
  marketing strategies and concepts are developed.
• New and better understanding of the levels of
  translation and how to do it better and faster.
• Combining different paths to advancement
  implementation vs discovery as a motivating
  factor.

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Benefit Areas

• Impacting how the federal government thinks about
  and funds center grants
• What does this do to university administration on
  all levels
• How does impact the power structure at the
  university
• New ways to attribute credit to leaders within
  center grants at the universities
• Thinking of cores as sub-grants so core leader
  is a PI and gets credit towards PT.

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Benefit Areas

• Being a magnet decreasing the viability of
  other local institutions