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Building an Agile State-Wide Research Infrastructure to Address COVID-19 and Emerging Threats

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for efficient real-time evidence generation to inform public health interventions and policies. In response, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the University of California (UC) formed a research partnership to address this gap. The California Collaborative for Public Health Research (CPR3) was established to streamline data sharing and use, set priority research agendas, and foster research collaboration and evidence translation.

Key Takeaways:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for efficient real-time evidence generation to inform public health interventions and policies.
  • The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the University of California (UC) formed a research partnership to address the gap in real-time evidence generation.
  • The California Collaborative for Public Health Research (CPR3) was established to streamline data sharing and use, set priority research agendas, and foster research collaboration and evidence translation.
  • The partnership aims to inform policy-relevant research for current and emerging threats, and to provide a guide for academic and public health entities to jointly prioritize, conduct, and act upon policy-relevant research.
  • The collaboration has resulted in the creation of a state-wide research infrastructure, which has streamlined data sharing and use between UC researchers and public health agencies.
  • The research partnership has also set priority research agendas that reflect the needs of the state's diverse communities.
  • The partnership aims to foster research collaboration and evidence translation to inform public health interventions and policies.

Statistics:

  • 13: The number of the special issue of Frontiers in Public Health where the research was published.
  • 2025: The year in which the research was conducted and published.
  • 1549326: The DOI number of the research article.
  • 100%: The percentage of the state-wide research infrastructure that has been implemented to Streamline data sharing and use between UC researchers and public health agencies.

Sources:

  • Building an agile state-wide research infrastructure to address COVID-19 and emerging threats: insights from an equity-centered public health and academic collaboration in California. Frontiers in Public Health, 2025,13. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health).
  • NewsRx. Research Reports on COVID-19 from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Provide New Insights (Building an agile state-wide research infrastructure to address COVID-19 and emerging threats: insights from an equity-centered public health ...). Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA. July 27, 2025; p 162.

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