Description: Our mission is to serve the CTSA Program through coordination, transparent communication, team science, actionable metrics, analytics and innovative collaboration tools.
A meeting to discuss the underrepresentation of people in biomedical research evolved, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, into a more detailed study of how inclusion is essential to reducing health inequities.
In 2018, Julie T. Elworth, Ph.D., director of evaluation at the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), realized that more than 75 percent of individuals using ITHS services only used services from a single domain or module – even though ITHS offered services in 11 different modules. Now, Elworth and evaluators at other CTSA Program hubs completed a study that found a similar pattern at two other CTSAs, suggesting researchers are missing opportunities to lever
In September 2020, the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) kicked off Collaborative Conversations, a series of virtual Un-Meetings for faculty, managers, administrators and more to discuss the critical need for professional workforce development of CRPs working at academic medical centers.