| Indicator 10.1 Planning 52.5% |
 | - The SPH Laboratory System has adequate capacity to plan research and improvement activities |
 | - The SPH Laboratory System collaborates to finance research activities |
| Indicator 10.2 Implementation, Evaluation and Dissemination 25.7% |
| - SPH Laboratory System processes draw on diverse perspectives and expertise to stimulate innovative thinking |
| - The SPH Laboratory System research is evaluated to foster improvement and innovation |
 | - The SPH Laboratory System disseminates research outcomes, best practices, and recognition of research activities |
Next Steps for Action, Essential Service #10:
- Raise awareness and communicate research activities and opportunities (high)
- Establish assessment process for research across PHL system to gain understanding of what research opportunities exist and identify opportunities for collaboration (high)
- Encourage expansion of lab missions to include and designate a percentage of time for research (high)
- Establish mechanism to ensure research funding and encourage system partners to collectively advocate for that funding (i.e., seed money allocated by legislature; fee adjustments; other funding paradigms from private sector)
- Ensure grant writing competencies across system partners
- Foster exploratory discussions among military, education, MDH and other partners within system to identify opportunities for collaboration
- Establish a research committee with diverse perspectives and representation (including non MDH reps) (high)
- Encourage expansion of lab missions to include and designate a percentage of time for research (high)
- Fund the expanded lab mission via seed money, fee adjustments
- Develop a clearing house to collect and share information about research opportunities and possibilities for collaboration (high)
- Establish a multi-perspective research committee to provide a forum to identify innovations and collaboration opportunities (high)
- Collaborate among system partners to advocate for research activity at the legislative level
- Improve funding for health in state generally
- Develop incentives/ recognition for staff who innovate, research, publish
- Increase number of MDH staff as adjunct faculty at U of M
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