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| Welcome to the Dissemination and Translation Core (DOT) |
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The Dissemination and Translation Core, led by Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, enhances the CTSA’s policy relevance by producing useful, timely information for clinical and public policymakers. The Core has two components: dissemination of project-specific clinical findings, and identification and analysis of cross-cutting clinical and translational policy issues
Dissemination of project-specific findings. On a project-specific basis, Core staff works with investigators to define: a) next steps in the translational process; b) specific audiences to target; c) specific informational needs of those audiences; and d) barriers to, and facilitators of, adoption of effective clinical therapies. It promotes the application of new clinical knowledge by reaching policymakers and translating clinical findings into readily available, accessible materials. These services are available to investigators upon request, from the proposal development stage through completion of the study and publication of results. For more information, please contact LDI’s Associate Director for Health Policy, Janet Weiner, MPH, at weinerja@mail.med.upenn.edu, (215) 573-9374. Identification and analysis of cross-cutting clinical and translational policy issues. This Core provides analytic services that cut across the CTSA’s individual studies, to address policy issues relevant to clinical and translational research as these issues emerge. Examples of potential policy issues include: insurance coverage and clinical trials; mandatory trial registration; publication bias; improving minority participation in research; industry/academia relationships, or fostering “reverse translation” of clinical findings to inform bench research. Depending on the issue, the Core will convene seminars or organize working groups, commission a conceptual paper or hold a consensus/policy conference. Core staff identifies relevant issues by ongoing contact with CTSA staff and by surveillance of national and state legislative and regulatory agendas. |