# Tracking and Evaluation Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $178,458

## Abstract

The Tracking and Evaluation (TE) Core of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute
(WVCTSI) uses collaborative capacity building evaluation and accountability frameworks to assist all cores in
their evaluation and data-based decision-making processes, empowering core personnel to recognize and
address challenges to productivity and desired outcomes. During Years 1-5, TE established robust systems and
processes to provide leadership and personnel with objective performance data to assess progress toward Aim
achievement. In this renewal application, TE proposes innovative new initiatives to enhance the WVCTSI's
capacity to evaluate its progress, maximizing accountability and programmatic improvement. These efforts will
be accomplished through the following specific aims: 1) develop Investigator Tracking and Support System
(ITSS) utilizing quantitative and qualitative approaches to identify factors either contributing to success or
providing barriers to productivity, 2) create and implement a systematic set of tools and measurement to drive
continuous quality improvement and demonstrate impact of community stakeholder participation and
engagement, and 3) build focused research and evaluation demonstrating WVCTSI impacts on health outcomes
in WV. To accomplish Aim 1, we have successfully piloted innovative software and standard operating
procedures through which every instance of investigator service delivery is logged in a central database with all
other individual investigator data points, and goals associated with the outcomes and products associated with
that delivery. For Aim 2, we will capture the breadth and depth of WVCTSI community stakeholder by evaluating
associated activities, interactions, and outcomes using the i) Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Networks
to Enhance Relationships (PARTNER) Tool, an online survey instrument, ii) Toolkit for Community Engaged
Mapping, a qualitative tool, and iii) Collaborative Productivity Scale, expanded to include measures of an
investigator's readiness to engage in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). Aim 3 will involve
transforming our existing evaluation system to focus on WVCTSI impact on health outcomes at three levels: 1)
moving the needle on publicly-available statewide health outcomes, 2) evaluating WVCTSI resource allocation
to impact WVCTSI priority areas and related outcomes, and 3) studying the impact of specific healthcare policy
and practice changes disseminated across the WV Practice-Based Research Network (WVPBRN). At each of
these levels, we will focus on WVCTSI priority area metrics including drug overdose deaths, cancer mortality,
and cardiovascular mortality as well as a number of more intermediary outcomes (e.g., Hepatitis C cures, cancer
stage at diagnosis). Integrating these innovations into programmatic evaluation processes and procedures
developed during Years 1-5 will facilitate accomplishment of the new programmatic goals of this application...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10213755
- **Project number:** 5U54GM104942-06
- **Recipient organization:** WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Reagan Curtis
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $178,458
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-08-15 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10213755

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10213755, Tracking and Evaluation Core (5U54GM104942-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10213755. Licensed CC0.

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