Answering many important research questions requires funding to pay assistants, conduct interviews, buy specialized data or purchase statistical research software. In this faculty development workshop you will learn how to develop and grow your research agenda so that you can focus on answering important questions with an appropriate level of resources. Topics covered will include research team composition, how to build partnerships with community members and organizations, project workflow and internal/external funding. The ideas discussed in this workshop will help get a sense of where you are going with your research work, see the big picture and understand the potential impact of your work.

Dr. José A. Pagán, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management in the School of Global Public Health at New York University. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States. Dr. Pagán received his PhD in economics from the University of New Mexico and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar with expertise in health economics and population health. He has led research, implementation, and evaluation projects on the redesign of health care delivery and payment systems. Over the years his research work has been funded through grants and contracts from the Department of Defense, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the European Commission, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among others. Dr. Pagán served as Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and the American Society of Health Economists. His vitae: CV