Building research capacity in the allied health professions

Motivators, enablers, and barriers to building allied health research capacity

PURPOSE A sound, scientific base of high quality research is needed to inform service planning and decision making and enable improved policy and practice. However, some areas of health practice, particularly many of the allied health areas, are generally considered to have a low evidence base. In order to successfully build research capacity in allied health, a clearer understanding is require...

College of Allied Health Professions

2 The Role of Computed Tomography in Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement Tammy Jones, Stephanie Lough. Faculty: Division of Radiation Science Technology Education, College of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE According to the American Heart Association, aortic stenosis, which is the narrowing of the aortic valve opening, remains one of the most comm...

Research in the allied health professions: why fund it? A report of the ASAHP Research Committee.

Many professionals work closely with physicians and nurses to provide healthcare that is safe, patient-centered, efficient, equitable, timely, and effective. These professionals represent many and varied allied health disciplines. Each allied health professional is ethically accountable for bringing a theoretically-sound and evidence-based approach to problem-solving in healthcare delivery. Alt...

Capacity Building in Global Mental Health Research

Research-generated information about mental disorders is crucial in order to establish the health needs in a given setting, to propose culturally apt and cost-effective individual and collective interventions, to investigate their implementation, and to explore the obstacles that prevent recommended strategies from being implemented. Yet the capacity to undertake such research in low- and middl...

Building capacity in applied health services research.