About CERTs
Annual Report Year 3
Putting Our Heads Together:
Fostering Collaboration
The Risk Series | Parternships to Advance Therapeutics | Outreach
Outreach
Another offshoot of CERTs is taking a more tightly focused approach to building collaborative partnerships.
As an adjunct to the PATHs meeting in March 2002, CERTs held its first “Government Day,” a gathering of CERTs leaders and government representatives from a number of healthcare-related agencies.
Serving as a means to introduce the work and potential of CERTs to possible government collaborators, “An Opportunity to Maximize Interagency Collaboration” gave an in-depth look at the individual CERTs centers and their work, as well as how this research and education tie into the big picture of optimizing therapeutics use.
The CERTs showcase was followed by a roundtable in which all participants could brainstorm on potential collaborative projects between their respective agencies and the CERTs, particularly those that could best use the cumulative expertise and far-reaching goals of the program as a whole.
Projects like PATHs and this conference of government leaders highlight the long-term vision and constant focus on forward momentum of CERTs. One of the clearest lessons from the first three years of CERTs is that the power of collaboration is essential to unraveling the complexities of modern therapies.