# Tracking and Evaluation

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS · 2020 · $220,793

## Abstract

MW CTR-IN Program Tracking and Evaluation Core -- Abstract
 With the goal of addressing health disparities in the Mountain West (MW) region through
enhanced infrastructure to support clinical and translational research (CTR), the MW CTR-IN
requires continuous high-quality feedback and assessment data. The renewal of the MW CTR-
IN establishes a Tracking and Evaluation (T&E) Core as a stand-alone core rather than as a unit
embedded within the Administrative Core. The T&E Core has three aims. First, the T&E Core
will enhance existing tracking and monitoring systems to better standardize data collection and
data management methods to track the use, quality, and cost of programs and services
provided the CTR-IN and its cores. The T&E Core will function to design, coordinate, monitor,
and report tracking activities for the CTR-IN portal databases. The key mission for the T&E Core
for this aim will be to ensure that appropriate quality, quantity, and cost metrics are identified
and that data collection capacity is in place to capture each metric for the CTR-IN network and
the individual cores of the CTR-IN. A quarterly tracking and milestone report will be generated to
monitor investigator and core activities. Second, the T&E Core will evaluate process data
related to the delivery of the CTR-IN programs and services for the purpose of program
improvement to better meet investigator needs, increase efficiency, and improve service quality.
A multilevel approach to process evaluation will capture the implementation of core activities
directly related to end users (i.e., investigators and community stakeholders), individual core
activities designed to meet core aims, and interactions among the various cores that facilitate
the overall aims of the CTR-IN. Semiannual process evaluation reports will be formatively
utilized by core leaders to guide decision-making. Finally, the T&E Core will monitor progress
toward meeting CTR-IN aims through a rigorous evaluation of outcome data. The T&E Core will
conduct an annual summative outcome evaluation of the overall aims of the CTR-IN.
Specifically, the T&E Core will examine the CTR-IN infrastructure and supporting collaborative
and extramurally funded health disparities-focused research, as well as the specific aims of
each core. Data from the improved tracking system and an annual survey will serve as the
outcome data sources for the annual evaluation of progress toward short-term and intermediate-
term outcomes. The T&E evaluation procedures in the renewal form the basis for determining
the impact of the CTR-IN on overall CTR development in the MW region.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9979984
- **Project number:** 5U54GM104944-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS
- **Principal Investigator:** Gwen Marchand
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $220,793
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9979984

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9979984, Tracking and Evaluation (5U54GM104944-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9979984. Licensed CC0.

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