Table 2.

Prioritization of Action Items by AcademyHealth's Education Council

Rank Order Priority	Prioritized Specific Action Items	Who Should Be Responsible for Implementing?
1	Rather than conducting periodic enumerations of the HSR workforce, develop and confirm metrics of interest to measure changes in the HSR workforce and design a system to allow for the routine monitoring of the HSR workforce in relation to size, composition, and other relevant characteristics	AcademyHealth
2	Develop a handful of diverse but illustrative “career trajectories” of health services and policy researchers and use these for promotional purposes, particularly with respect to promoting HSR careers to high school students, undergraduate, and graduate students	AcademyHealth
3	Promote interdisciplinary learning experiences that integrate social determinants of health, population health, health policy, and dissemination of evidence‐based health information leading to informed health policy	AcademyHealth
4	Ensure that HSR curricula include the core concept of designing for dissemination and implementation, as well as key elements of implementation science	AcademyHealth
5	Provide students and trainees with access to a variety of experiential internship/fellowship opportunities to gain broader exposure to different areas of health care (e.g., delivery system, life‐sciences, research consulting organizations, data analytics companies, public health, other state or federal agencies.)	Individual HSR training programs
6	Population health and the social determinants of health should be added as a core competency in HSR training with opportunities for specialization: The curriculum should include experiential and community‐based training	Individual HSR training programs
7	Use Coursera or similar MOOC (massive open online course) to develop a foundational education resource for HSR programs focused on innovations in data science and data analytics that can be used broadly across many training programs/sites	Individual HSR training programs
8	Expand methods and analytics approaches by reaching beyond traditional HSR disciplines through collaborations with other fields (e.g., engineering, computer science, communications, and education)	Individual HSR training programs and/or journals that publish HSR
9	Help scientific journals evolve to be more proactive with dissemination. Articles should be written to emphasize application to health programs and policies and should include summaries written for lay readers and policymakers. Journals, authors, and funders should be trained to collaborate to augment dissemination	Journals that publish HSR
10	Share information about new methods, especially analyzing observational data in novel data sources, poll people to identify new/emerging methods. Understand new data sources and the challenges each bring	Individual HSR training programs and/or journals that publish HSR