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Understanding the Current Health Services Research Workforce and Maximizing Its Future

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Thank You To Our Sponsors

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Understanding the Current Health Services Research Workforce and Maximizing Its Future

Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., M.P.H. Professor and Department Chair, Health Policy and Management Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University Chair, AcademyHealth Education Council

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Process for Generating Recommendations

• HSR Workforce Taskforce planned and moderated the conference
• Tim Carey and Nir Menachemi, Education Council
• Francis Chesley and Harry Kwon, AHRQ
• Joe Selby and Jean Slutsky, PCORI
• Claire Gibbons, RWJF
• October 2016: conference of experts and key stakeholders to develop

recommendations through workgroup discussions

• December 2016: online consensus building activity to refine and clarify

proposed recommendations

• January 2017: Edited for clarity, removed duplication, finalized

recommendations for publication and dissemination

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Overarching Areas of Recommendations

• 1. Ensure a diverse workforce to answer priority questions

about health and health care

• 2. Maximize the impact of health services research
• 3. Monitor the health services workforce and how it

changes over time

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#1: Ensure a Diverse Workforce…

• Expand awareness of career options in HSR to diversify the

pipeline and ensure high quality, skilled researchers

• Move beyond HSR to learn from other fields, disciplines, and

stakeholders to inform the training of health services and policy researchers and to support the production, translation, and dissemination of HSR

• Incorporate experiential learning into the training of health

services researchers throughout their careers, especially

• pportunities for HSR trainees to learn and work in non-academic

settings

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#2: Maximize the impact of HSR

• Support the diffusion of data and methods to ensure

high quality research and support the training needs of health services researchers working in diverse sectors

• Broaden health services researchers’ dissemination

skillset to prepare them for multi-sectoral career paths

• Support dissemination as an integral part of research

conduct

• Involve stakeholders throughout the research lifecycle

(conceptualization, funding, conduct, and dissemination)

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#3: Monitor the HSR workforce & how it changes

• Inform the field’s efforts to assess its effectiveness in

addressing priority health and healthcare issues across sectors

• Monitor and identify new and emerging areas of HSR

and support their inclusion into training and research

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Next Steps

AcademyHealth will focus on the following tactics to implement the recommendations:

• Develop and confirm metrics of interest to measure changes in the HSR

workforce and design a system to allow for the routine monitoring of the HSR workforce in relation to size, composition, and other relevant characteristics.

• Develop a handful of diverse but illustrative “career trajectories” of health

services and policy researchers and use these for promotional purposes

• Promote interdisciplinary learning experiences that integrate social

determinants of health, population health, health policy and dissemination of evidence-based health information leading to informed health policy.

• Provide students and trainees with access to a variety of experiential internship/

fellowship opportunities to gain broader exposure to different areas of healthcare