Translational Research Design: Collaborating with Stakeholders for Program Evaluation

Translational Cancer Research Program

Tumor microenvironment regulates cancer cell survival, metastasis, inflammation, and immune surveillance. There is growing evidence that the lymph node (LN) microenvironment, especially lymph node stromal cells (LNSCs), play a significant role in solid tumor growth, drug resistance, and subsequent extra-nodal metastasis of many types of cancer. A comprehensive understanding of the associated mo...

Collaborating with developing countries in psychiatric research.

have drawn attention to the huge burden have drawn attention to the huge burden of illness and severe disability that of illness and severe disability that accompanies mental illness in people living accompanies mental illness in people living in low-income countries – the majority of in low-income countries – the majority of the world's population. the world's population. The challenges of con...

Design for MOSIS Educational Program (Research)

Program Evaluation and Research Designs∗

This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of “program” in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of Thistlethwaite and Campbell (1960). We organize our discussion of these various research designs by how t...

The NIEHS Superfund Research Program: 25 Years of Translational Research for Public Health

BACKGROUND The Superfund Research Program (SRP) is an academically based, multidisciplinary, translational research program that for 25 years has sought scientific solutions to health and environmental problems associated with hazardous waste sites. SRP is coordinated by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). It supports multi-project grants, undergraduate and postdoct...