TABLE 3.
Objectives by priority.
| Top three research priority areas | Preliminary objectives |
|---|---|
| Equity and Access | |
| Conduct a scoping review to understand barriers for the inclusion of under-represented populations in precision public health/precision medicine research across the translational spectrum (using NIH All of US definition of under-represented populations) | |
| Develop a framework for evaluating whether health equity has been adequately integrated into precision public health research and interventions | |
| Develop a justice-based model for identifying potential harms and unintended consequences in precision public health | |
| Identify/implement mechanisms for promoting a diverse workforce in precision public health practice and research | |
| Evaluation | |
| Consolidate and develop tools to evaluate the effectiveness of precision public health approaches, including: an objective list of quality measures/criteria, collaborative efforts with grant review criteria, predictive measures for evaluated expected value and impact on health outcomes, identification of which predictive strategies/approaches to use, modified existing frameworks in cost-effectiveness and public health evaluation programs, evaluation tools that incorporate qualitative/mixed methods, and quantitative approaches; ways to track precision public health programs to identify where/when evaluation is needed | |
| Develop competencies to guide training initiatives in precision public health | |
| Evaluate new precision public health approaches and applications in comparison to more traditional approaches used within the field of public health (e.g., cost-effectiveness) | |
| Link with implementation scientists to undertake dissemination of best practices related to precision public health | |
| Develop metrics to evaluate the success of evaluations in guiding research and practice directions | |
| Implementation Science | |
| Promote stakeholder (e.g., community, patient, clinician, policymakers, payers) engagement and use of measures of feasibility and acceptability (ideally common measures) during pre-implementation phases of precision public health programs | |
| Apply implementation science to address technical needs (e.g., electronic health records) for precision public health research and practice | |
| Design for dissemination, develop research programs that have sustainability and spread plans (e.g., model after National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences RFA or after how Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute mandates specific things on community engagement) | |
| Create a repository for findings on successful implementation strategies, sharing knowledge across settings, not limited to the high burden of creating peer reviewed literature, more rapid sharing, accessible to clinicians not just researchers | |
| Conduct research that evaluates implementation of precision public health iteratively and includes implementation needs in cost-effectiveness/economic modeling |