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Irac 1.31.13
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- 2. IRAC issues: What wework on after these meetings adjourn ¡ Creating community ¡ GlobalResearch forums- premiered at June meeting ¡ GlobalResearch News- outreach across campus ¡ Interest Groups- facilitating networking ¡ Social networking ¡ Creating resources and support ¡ Consultation service ¡ Working groups (travel, compliance, finance) ¡ International Database (IPD) ¡ GlobalHUB ¡ Ensure systems in development share global voice ¡ Supporting Early career faculty (JrGlobal)
- 3. Creating Community GlobalResearch forums ¡ Use newsletter to drive users to site ¡ 1,800 visits, 25% return rate ¡ Un-gated open resource- no login ¡ Critical mass not met- people are not posting
- 4. Creating community GlobalResearch News 1800 initialsubscribers 2770 current 27% open (good for academia) News, events, funding, awards & gossip Tracks GH active residents and students as they move to other institutions, keeping them in touch with UCSF abroad
- 5. Creating community Interest groups ¡ InterestGroups- central point to join. Online presence for groups ¡ Posting and updates are immediate ¡ Assist in ID-ing members and maintaining email lists
- 6. Creating community social networking ¡ Facebook-Bay Area Global Health Events ¡ Twitter: events & RFA’s, syndicatable by anyone. ¡ Google calendar? Auto-populates UCSF accts
- 7. Resources and Support Consultationservices ¡ A mechanism to credit faculty for time spent ¡ Available to external consultees ¡ Used to capture conundrums with no easy answer
- 8. Resources and support Working groups (travel, compliance, finance) ¡ GH finance issues are developed in RA forums, as UC transitions to OE, the topics that are addressed are posted to the GlobalResearch Grants Management Forum ¡ Travel safety subcommittee convenes quarterly for review and action (current hot topic is a unified UCSF approach to needle-stick abroad). Resources developed in the committee are posted to Risk management, the GlobalResearch Travel forum, integrated into student resources, and disseminated in the GlobalResearch Newsletter. ¡ UC-wide initiative to standardize export controls- especially deemed export.
- 9. Resources and support International Database (IPD) Revamp of front and back end. Improve functionality & user interface. Add city data, tag programs by topic, parse by active vs archive.
- 10. Resources and support GlobalHUB Partneringwith the Office of Ethics and compliance to develop a Global HUB modeled on their Clinical Compliance HUB
- 11. Resources and support Ensuresystems share Global voice ¡ With Profiles to syndicate as much data as possible ¡ With contracts and grants, to extract old data and ensure new data systems collect GH data ¡ With Risk Management, capture travel data ¡ With CHR, capture old data and plan new systems
- 12. Early career faculty (JrGlobal) ¡ Identifying Research interest is difficult from a systems perspective ¡ Identifying Global health passion is harder ¡ Those who fund projects through NGO’s rather than UCSF are a missed resource ¡ Many of the career hurdles that are impeded by Global work are left intact as faculty move onto the next hurdle ¡ Convening JrGlobal’s formally and informally to identify and address issues, and foster collaborations
- 13. IRAC can help ¡ ReferGH interested researchers to the resources ¡ Include a cc to Paul or Teresa when someone asks a FAQ, we can make sure it gets posted, so you won’t get asked again. ¡ You may be tapped for expertise as a consultant ¡ You may be tapped for a working group ¡ IRAC meetings feature new resources to support GHResearch, let your peers know about them ¡ Senior faculty represent expertise in how UCSF conducts research abroad. We convene 3 or 4 times a year. 90 members means we average 25 attendees