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Bulletin:
The 2008 HRA National Conference, "Accelerating Medical Discovery Through Strategic Philanthropy," on March 4-6, 2008, was an exciting event. Conference presentations have now been posted on the HRA National Conference page in the Members-Only portion of the website. CDs containing pdfs of the presentations will be mailed to participants from non-member organizations. You can still access the final agenda here. Conference proceedings are being prepared and will be posted as a pdf when they are complete.
Health Research Alliance members: Registration materials for the September, 2008 HRA Advisory Committee meeting to be hosted by The Flinn Foundation in Phoenix were emailed to members on June 9. Be sure to register by the June 30 deadline. Members click here to access an agenda as well as registration materials.
Is your organization interested in becoming a member of the Health Research Alliance? Find out more.
Health Research Alliance
P.O. Box 13901
21 T. W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina 27709
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The Program Evaluation Working Group facilitates the sharing of best practices in program design and evaluation among Alliance members, with the goal of raising the level of program evaluation capacity within the health research community. Strategies used to reach that goal include establishing common evaluation parameters, sharing evaluation tools, disseminating results, and combining and sharing data. There are many benefits of conducting joint evaluation projects, including the opportunity to benchmark against similar programs and to increase sample size, thereby improving confidence in evaluation research findings.
Projects:
Evaluation Working Session: A working session on evaluation was held at the Health Research Alliance Steering Committee meeting in September 2005 at the JDRF offices in New York City. The session, which included Alliance members and guests from the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute, focused on identifying a common core set of variables that funders can monitor for current or future outcome evaluations of career development programs that support clinical investigators. The results of that session are providing the core content for a white paper on the evaluation of career development programs for clinical investigators that is currently under development.
HRA Member Evaluation Survey: In the spring of 2007, the Program Evaluation Working Group conducted a survey of HRA member organizations designed to identify a baseline of program evaluation activity among members. The results of that survey and the outcome of the May 2007 HRA Advisory Committee session on the use of logic models in evaluating health research award programs will determine the Working Group's next efforts in helping member organizations enhance their program evaluation capacity.
Program Evaluation Working Group Members:
Co-Chairs:- Jennifer McCafferty-Cepero, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
- Melanie Turner, American Heart Association
Members:- Rolly Simpson, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Scott Campbell, American Diabetes Association
- Kenneth Portier, American Cancer Society
- Elaine Gallin, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
- William Galey, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Debra McCoy, Arthritis Foundation
- Nancy Sung, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
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