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NCHATS Methods Core

The NCHATS Methods Core provides the resources needed to conduct rigorous, innovative research that shares similar conceptual frameworks, methods, and measures.

Methods Core:

  • Engage Consortium Partners to promote utility, scalability, sustainability of Center findings
  • Incubate and generate innovative approaches to suicide prevention
  • Facilitate design and conduct of Center research projects
  • Implementation science, data analysis, economic analysis, biomedical informatics, etc.
  • Disseminate Center methods and findings, build capacity for justice, health, and suicide prevention cross-system research and practice nationally
  • Evaluate the Center’s progress, productivity and impact

NCHATS Methods Core Workstreams

The NCHATS Methods Core Workstreams are subgroups within the Methods Core with specific expertise, all of which are required to finish a single project.

The Workstreams will provide training, resources, consultation, and hands-on operational support for Center projects and other Center functions, such as dissemination and evaluation.

Below is a list of the NCHATS Workstreams, each of which is teams of experts in their fields.

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This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:

  • Data analytics and study design
  • Health economics
  • Biomedical informatics and cross-system data linkage

Signup for Data and Analytics Workstream

30 minutes | Office Hours with the Data and Analytics Workstream

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This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:

  • Community partner engagement
  • Communication and dissemination
  • Implementation Science

Signup for Engagement and Implementation Science Workstream

30 minutes | Office Hours with the Engagement and Implementation Science Workstream

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This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:

  • Health system practice, policy, and lived experience
  • Criminal legal system practice, policy, and lived experience

Signup for Health and Justice Workstream

30 minutes | Office Hours with the Health and Justice Workstream

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This workstream provides expertise in the following areas:

  • Study ethics
  • Participant safety procedures Human subjects, good clinical practice, safety and adverse event reporting procedures, ethics/protection of justice-involved/suicidal participants
  • Suicide prevention interventions

Signup for Interventions, Safety, and Ethics Workstream

30 minutes | Office Hours with the Interventions, Safety, and Ethics Workstream

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This workstream provides expertise in the following area:

  • Ensuring that interventions work for everyone, given their individual patient needs

Signup for Patient Centered Outcomes Workstream

30 minutes | Office Hours with the Patient Centered Outcomes Workstream

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