The Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) is pleased to present its 2021-2025 Research Strategic Plan.
For 27 years, GHPC has lived its mission of integrating research, policy, and programs to advance health and well-being. It is at the intersection of the problem-solving cycle and the research cycle that the center sees its greatest opportunity to continue to contribute both to practice and scholarship.
The GHPC has a 15-year history of internal and external assessment of its scholarship. This five-year, research strategic plan began with a self-assessment of the center’s academic research from 2010 to 2021. During 2021 the center also engaged a distinguished group of external evaluators to examine the center’s research strategy and productivity.
A Review and Five-Year Strategic Plan for Research Volume 2 (2021–2025) is the culmination of findings from the internal and external assessments and addresses how the center plans to further increase its research through a series of actions in three key areas: human resource capacity, supportive infrastructure, and enabling financial resources.
“It is at this pivotal time of intensifying scrutiny of long-standing health disparities that we focus on increasing the center’s research outputs and strengthening research partnerships across the university and beyond,” says Karen Minyard, GHPC’s chief executive officer. “We thank our university partners for their continued support and look forward to forging new and enduring partnerships across the university, the state of Georgia, and research collaborators nationally.”
Read the full plan here.