2024 ANTT Five-Year Report

Affinity Networks and Translational Teams Initiative 5Year Report

Initiative Overview: 2018 – 2023

The initiative began in Spring 2018 with a visioning process and was initially conceived as 2 distinct initiatives (Affinity Networks, Translational Science).The overarching goal was to foster and support transdisciplinary collaboration within the college and community to design, develop, and implement research and best practices that have direct value and relevance to significant health challenges in the community.

Goals and Objectives

TheANTT Initiative Affinity Networks (ANs) Translational Teams (TTs)

Enhance research to improve population health

Increase collaboration within the college, university, and our community

Promote and support student success through experiential learning

Develop translational research to address complex health challenges

Engage community partners, students, and other collaborators

Design and implement research that addresses community needs

Serve as resource cores to improve college function and promote excellence in research, faculty, staff and student performance

Improve and expand the college’s impact within our communities

Expand the resources within the college and to actively disseminate knowledge

Development & Milestones

Team and Network Impacts

Impacts

Teaching and Learning

Programs Created

● EmploymentAssistance and Social Engagement (EASE) program (Autism)

● Native Health Internships (Patient Work)

● Speech Early InterventionTraining

Curricular

Modules:

● Experiential Learning (8)

○ Digital storytelling

○ Qualitative Interviewing

○ Ethics and Professionalism 1-2

○ Community Assessment 1-2

○ Digital Communication 1-3

● Health Policy & Equity

● Team Science (9)

Courses:

● CHS 280/484 Intro to Citizen Science in Health

● CHS 294 Foundations of Health Equity

● CHS:Tactical Performance

● ATPenhancements

Learning Platforms

● 9 ECHOs by the Child Language and Literacy TT

● BEEPECHO by the Speech Language PathologyAN

● Global Engagement: Integrated Healthcare Learning Platform

Impacts:ANs Training

Programs

Created Mountain States partnership for Community Engaged Dissemination & Implementation (MS-CEDI)

Academic Opportunities

Internships: ● ROTC Clinic

Courses: ● Tactical Performance class ● Health Equity course

Repositories, Labs ● Virtual Reality Lab ● TTTraining: web-based ● Research Coordination & ManagementTraining web-based platform ● CHS-wideTraining Repository

Impacts:AN Highlight Training: MS-CEDI

7 Collaborations

University of Utah

University ofArizona

Mayo Clinic

VASouthernArizona Health Care

Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health

Colorado State University ● University of New Mexico

Training Institute Annual Training (year-long)

● 5 cohorts trained

● 2 summer, intensive training workshops

Trainees ● Post-docs ● Faculty ● 44 in 2023

Outcomes

● “Emerging Mentor Program” (EMP) ● D & I Seminar Series ● Consultation service ● 10 grant awards

Impacts

Tools and Resources

New tools

Dyslexia screener

Diagnostic Commons

dashboard

Research+Me

AN &TTweb-based training resource site

Description

Resources Resource Compendiums

● Clinical Research & Project Management

● Social Emotional Learning

● Experiential Learning

Compendium, Modules

Impacts

Students

2x449

students impacted in 2023 byAffinity Networks

Fact Description

4

Participating in learning opportunities and events (2023)

● Food Distribution

● VR Lab

● 140 students in misc. 2023AN events

5

Internships and experiential learning activities (2019-2023)

● Athletics

○ 90 over 5 years

● Native Health

● Health Equity

Exposures and enhancements via enrolled courses

2

● 3200+ freshmen in CHS

100 (2019-2021)

● Student symposiums (BMI)

● Learning modules

● New ELcourses

Student Training

Narratives of Patient Work

BloomKidz

Internship

8 5

Experiential Learning (qualitative interviewing, Canvas)

RedCap (graduate students)

8 Doctoral Training Grants

8 Maternal Child Health Equity Post-Doc Fellowships (2)

Impacts: TTs 2019-2023

95 TotalAwards

$98+ million dollars from 2019 – 2023 80 CurrentAwards

$47+ million dollars in 2023 194 Distinct Community Organizations 865 Students Involved inTranslational Teams 2019 – 2023

Impacts Community

Collaborative Projects and Programs

● Black Mamas Support Village

● NeonatalAbstinence Syndrome & Speech Language & Feeding project

● DoulaTraining

● Business Partnerships for Food Accessibility

● Native Health Helping Hands: 276 community members assisted

Awards ASU President'sAward for Social Embeddedness – Safety NetAdvancement CenterTT

Impacts

Community Dissemination and Training

Community Information

● COVID-19 Evidence Commons

● COVID-19 Diagnostic Commons

● PBS Horizon monthly segments (health policy & equity, heat & health)

● Health Talks

Community Training

● Behavioral Health & Primary Care Integration Curriculum: Statewide training collaborative for primary care & behavioral health integration (150 HC delivery systems, med groups, social service agencies)

● Instructional Webinar Series: How to Develop Co-Location with Behavioral Health in the 911 Emergency Dispatch Center (RWJF systems for action network)

● Blood Bank

● 10 ECHO’s

● Dyslexia Screening

InitiativeActivities, Outreach, Capacity Building

Initiative Outreach: Events

2 Communication & Information

● Information sessions (with 110 attendees)

● Workshops

● Open Office Hours

● Faculty Orientations

● Research Council

Fact Description

Dissemination

8

2 Translational Science

Conferences

2021: 134 registered, 83 attendees 2022: 127 registered, 152 attendees

Faculty orientations (semi-annual 2019-2022)

Translational Research in Practice Seminar Series (2019-2020)

Health Talks Series

CHS Research Day

5 Team Incubation & Development

● Team facilitations

● Retreats & mini-retreats

● Onboarding

● CSU-IRISSTeam consultations & workshops

Capacity Building and Infrastructure

2 Capacity Building

● ANTT-dedicated Core team

● 2 new courses to support student experiential learning

○ 1ABOR approved

○ 1 Canvas

● Training Program

● Initiative-based workshops

Fact

8 Infrastructure

● Annual Funding

● Evaluation & Reporting

Description

● SOPs & processes

● 2 New tools and databases:

○ COMPARE

○ Student Opportunities Platform

● 2Advisory Committees

5 Developing long-term sustainability by embedding into college hubs and programs–accomplished by instituting communication avenues, structural processes, tools and platforms.

● ANTTBulletin

2 Newsletters

● Faculty Success

● Research Success

● Dean’s Silver Linings

● Staff Success

8 Faculty Forum Monthly presentations byANTTinitiative and AN’s andTT’s to boost visibility and engagement

5 CHS 100 Courses (2019-22)

● AN &TT Informational modules

● CHS-SciStarter curated Citizen Science modules

Description 8 Student Translational Research Club TTpresentations to encourage student-TT engagement and provide information regarding research

Engagement and Membership

Membership

Translational Teams: 2018 vs 2023

1076%

increase inTranslational Team membership from fiscal year 2018-2019 through 2023

635% increase inTranslationalTeam community partners from fiscal year 2018-2019 through 2023

Membership

Affinity Networks: 2018 vs 2023

117% increase inAffinity Network membership from 2018-2023

6% increase inAffinity Network community partners from 2018-2023

Engagement

Students

858%

increase inANTTstudent engagement from 2019 – 2023

Student Engagement in Teams and Networks

Engagement

Undergrad and Graduate Student Distribution

Engagement

Translational Teams: Community Partner Diversity

Historically, CHS primarily engaged with healthcare partners and site-based community engagement.TT goals included early, meaningful engagement of diverse community partners throughout the research process.This has resulted in a shift to diverse, inclusive partnerships.

Engagement

Affinity Networks: Community Partners

Deliverables

Deliverables

Translational Teams

204% increase inTranslational Teams from 2018 – 2023

●Autism

●Child Language and Literacy

●Hearing Loss

●Metabolic Health

●Veteran’s Health

●Maternal Child Health

●High Cost High Need

●Oral Health (now Safety NetAdvancement)

●Covid-19 (now Infectious Disease Prevention and Public Response)

●Craniofacial

●Cancer Prevention and Control

●Movement Disorders

●Patient Work

●Safety NetAdvancement Network

●Substance Use

2022

●Infectious Disease Prevention and Public Response

●Craniofacial

Gray text indicates a team that is discontinued

Deliverables

Affinity Networks

●Biomedical Informatics

●Data Quality

●Experiential Learning

●Geographic Information

SystemsTechnology

●Participants Registry

●Research Design

●Simulation

●Training

4x increase inAffinity Networks from 2018 – 2023

●Global Engagement

●Interprofessional Education, Research, and Collaborative Practice

2022

●Athletics andTactical Performance

●Dissemination and Implementation

●Health Policy and Equity

●Research Coordination and Management

●Social Emotional Learning and Intelligence

●Speech Language Pathology

●Multimodal Imaging

Gray text indicates a network that is discontinued

Deliverables

Dissemination and Outreach

2x Seminars and workshops held by Teams and Networks

● 1 byTranslationalTeams

● 9 byAffinity Networks

10 ECHOs

4

By the Child Language & LiteracyTTand the Speech Language PathologyAN

5 Media

● Monthly PBS Horizon Segment – (Health Policy & EquityAN)

● ASU News

● HealthAffairs blog

● Exposures

Fact

Description Training

● Maternal Child Health

● Team Facilitation 2 Annual Conferences held by Teams and Networks

● Cancer Prevention & Control

● Global Engagement

● Team Science Canvas modules (7)

5

● Project coordination

Translational Team Deliverables