Overview

The Translation Research Evaluation (TRE) TIG provides a community for all evaluators interested in the evaluation of translational research initiatives. It is hoped that through this community of practice, members will be able to share the specific and unique challenges they face related to all aspects of evaluation related to clinical and translational sciences including (but not limited to) education, frameworks and models, innovative applications, novel methods, data collection techniques and research designs. The TRE TIG offers its members– evaluators, practitioners, program managers and other stakeholders – an opportunity to share mutual interests, evaluation expertise, resources and materials.

Purpose

The over-arching goal of the TRE TIG is to explore current, state-of-the-art evaluation approaches and applications, foster communication among evaluators and provide opportunities to discuss existing and emerging techniques to evaluate translational research. It is hoped that this TIG, and the community of practice that it fosters, will help members identify and disseminate successful strategies to overcome challenges associated with translational research evaluation.

Topics of Interest

• Strategies to evaluate translational research

• Effective practices of translational research process evaluation

• Use of process evaluation, especially process markers in evaluations of new translational research processes

• Translational research outcome monitoring, evaluation and use

• Techniques for measuring impacts of translational research initiatives

• Common metrics and measures of translational research initiatives

• Development of evaluation frameworks for translational research

• Designing and implementing evaluation plans for translational research

• Systems science approaches to evaluate translational research efforts

• Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies for translational research