Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006 - 2015

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Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015 (Research Guide) is helping academicians and practitioners articulate critical research needs!  CDC has distributed over 800 copies of the Research Guide since July with requests from 44 states and 7 countries.  Call us at 404-639-4621 and ask for a copy of the Research Guide or down load a PDF version from the link below.  Let us know how you are using the Research Guide in your work! Email us at ResearchGuide@cdc.gov.

Click here for a PDF version of the final Research Guide (PDF, 9.36 MB) (formerly known as the draft Health Protection Research Guide, 2006-2015)

Click here for a list of intervention, translation and dissemination research themes in the Research Guide.

Learn about how the Research Guide fosters collaboration on health disparities research

Overview

Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide for Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015 is a critical resource for research areas that should be addressed during the next decade by CDC and its partners in response to current and future needs and events. The Research Guide will serve as an essential resource for defining a more focused CDC health protection research agenda of research priorities aligned with the Health Protection Goals developed by CDC. The Research Guide was developed through the workgroups, under the advisement of the Research Agenda Steering Subworkgroup, Advisory Committee to the Director, CDC and through extensive input from CDC staff and a wide range of federal, state, tribal, academic, and non-profit partners, as well as the public-at-large.

As a result of this engagement, Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015 was produced. The development of the Research Guide is presented as responses to the following questions:

What is Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015?

Why was the Research Guide developed?

How was the Research Guide developed?

Who is the point of contact?

What is Advancing the Nation’s Health: A Guide to Public Health Research Needs, 2006-2015?
It is a critical resource for research areas that should be addressed during the next decade by CDC and its partners in response to current and future needs and events. By health protection research, we mean research that supports health promotion, prevention of injury, disability, and diseases, and preparedness activities. The Research Guide will serve as an essential resource for defining a more focused CDC health protection research agenda of research priorities aligned with the Health Protection Goals developed by CDC. In addition, portions of the Research Guide will be used to inform research initiatives that address other critical public health needs and research priorities of other agencies.

The Research Guide contains 138 research themes that are organized by seven topic specific chapters listed below.

3. Prevent and Control Infectious Diseases
4. Promote Preparedness to Protect Health
5. Promote Health to Reduce Chronic Diseases and Disability
6. Create Safer and Healthier Places
7. Work Together to Build a Healthy World
8. Manage and Market Health Information
9. Promote Cross-Cutting Public Health Research

Why was the Research Guide developed?
The CDC has reorganized itself, through the Futures Initiative, to become a more effective public health response agency to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Although each National Center(NC), Coordinating Office (CO) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed its own research agenda in the past, the Research Guide will provide new opportunities to identify and build upon synergies across the NCs, COs, NIOSH, and Coordinating Centers (clusters of related NCs) to fill critical knowledge gaps to better protect the public's health. The Research Guide will also highlight, for the first time, cross-cutting research which serves as a foundation for a wide range of public health disciplines and needs.

The Research Guide will not supplant existing NC, CO and NIOSH agendas. Instead, it will serve as a general guide to these units on research areas they should address as they update their own research agendas in the future.

How was the Research Guide developed?

The CDC worked extensively with its staff, partners, stakeholders and the public to ensure that research is properly focused on key areas of public health that affect local, national, and global health. The Research Guide was developed using a variety of workgroups, holding internal meetings with CDC staff, sponsoring four Public Participation Meetings around the country, and disseminating widely the Research Guide for public comment.

Who is the point of contact?
The CDC Office of Public Health Research will help guide, facilitate and support the development of the Research Guide, 2006-2015.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Atlanta, GA 30333

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