APHCRI's INITIAL PROGRAM OF WORK

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• APHCRI's INITIAL PROGRAM OF WORK
• Stream 2 Information Workshop
• Nicholas J Glasgow

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Agenda

• 1 Overview of APHCRI
• 1.1 Part of PHCRED Strategy
• 1.2 Hub and Spoke model
• 1.3 Collaborative model
• 1.4 Decision making in a collaborative model
• 2 Stream 2
• 2.1 Statement that APHCRI Hub staff will not be
  applicants within Stream 2 and explanation for
  this change
• 2.2 Aim of Stream 2
• 2.3 Outcomes for potential applicants in Stream
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• 2.4 Expression of Interest
• 3 Questions and Answers

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Four Elements of PHC RED Strategy

• Research priority setting process
• Awards, grants, scholarships and bursaries
• University departments of general practice and
  rural health capacity building
• Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute

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APHCRI a virtual institute

• Hub and Spoke model with the Hub being based at
  the ANU, and the Spokes being programs of
  research undertaken around the nation
  commissioned by the Institutes Research Advisory
  Board. The Hub and Spokes together form the
  Institute and meet the Institutes mission and
  goals

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Hub and Spoke Model
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Mission and Aims

• APHCRIs mission is to provide national
  leadership in improving the quality and
  effectiveness of primary health care through the
  conduct of high quality priority-driven research
  and the support and promotion of best practice 
• APHCRI has three aims
• To strengthen the knowledge base of primary
  health care by conducting and supporting
  research
• To facilitate the uptake of research evidence in
  primary health care policy and practice
• To enhance research capacity in primary health
  care through strategic partnerships with other
  relevant national and international groups

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Hub and Spoke Model -achieves Mission and Aims
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Collaborative Model

• Working together fine in theory but can it
  happen?

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The issues

• The usual way of distributing research funds is
  through contestable grants and clear separation
  of the grant giving and research doing
  entities
• APHCRI has both grant giving and research
  doing responsibilities

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The issues (continued)

• The pool of people within Australia with
  expertise in GP and PHC research, policy and/or
  evidence based practice implementation is small
• APHCRI approaches to its mission and aims need to
  be inclusive and enhancing of this expertise

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Hub and Spoke Model is Collaborative
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Decision making in a collaborative model

• Ultimately, decisions have to be made in which
  some Spokes may be funded, and others may not
• Open, transparent processes including aims of
  research programs and assessment criteria
• Regular communications
• E-mail (general and targeted), APHCRI website,
  public notices, information workshops
• Careful management of conflicts of interest (more
  detail later)
• Separated decision making
• Expert Review Committee recommendations
• Research Advisory Board decision making

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Stream 2 - Announcement

• Decision of the Research Advisory Board at its
  June meeting
• no person employed by, or contracted to, the
  APHCRI Hub will be applicants under Stream 2
• Why this change?
• Conflicts of interest (real and/or perceived)
• Full participation by Hub staff in Information
  Workshops and other necessary activities
• No point in lobbying!

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Stream 2 Aim and Outcomes

• Aim
• to support a small number of research groups to
  develop proposals for substantive programs of
  research relating to the priorities for APHCRIs
  Initial Work Program
• Outcomes
• Up to 20,000
• Up to six
• Eligible to submit proposals by Monday, Nov 29th
  2004 for APHCRI funding of substantive programs
  of research commencing in 2005
• Unsuccessful applicants in Stream 2 are not
  precluded from submitting their proposals by
  Monday Nov 29th 2004 APHCRI funding of
  substantive programs of research commencing in
  2005

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Revised Timelines
Work-in-progress meeting for Spokes 29 Oct
RAB announces Spoke funding 16 July
Research meeting for Spokes 9 10 Aug
ERC assesses EOIs
Workshop 21 May
ERC assesses full proposals
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RAB Meeting 1 June
RAB Meeting 2 Nov
RAB announces funding 20 August
Closing date for EOIs 19 July
ERC assesses EOIs
Closing date for proposals 29 Nov
Information Workshops
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Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
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Criteria
Questions for the Expression of Interest for
Stream Two   Criterion 1 1. Which of the
priorities for APHCRIs Initial Work Program does
your proposed program of research address?   2.
What important gaps in knowledge relating to
organisation, financing, delivery and/or
performance in primary health care does your
proposed program of research address?   3. How
will the answers to your questions contribute to
innovation in national policy and/or practice in
organisation, financing, delivery and/or
performance in primary health care?   Criterion
2 4. What specific research questions do you
propose to answer in order to address these gaps
in knowledge?   5. How do you propose to answer
these questions? Be specific. Outline both your
proposed methods sources of data and approaches
to analysis and interpretation.   Criteria 3
and 4 6. Which personnel from which
organisations make up the proposed research team?
What skills and experience does each bring to
the proposed program? Briefly summarise the
publication record for each. Who will be
responsible for each aspect of the program of
research?   Criterion 5 7. What is the
indicative estimate of the total budget and
indicative timeline for the proposed program of
research?
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Assessment

• See hand out

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• Questions?