A Public Health of Consequence: Shifting the Cultural Narrative From Churning Grants to a Scholarship of Consequence

A confluence of challenges is impeding faculty members' ability to prioritize research with the goal of achieving a public health of consequence: research designed to improve conditions to produce a healthier society. Together, these challenges create a "churn" culture in which facult...

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Published in:	American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 109; no. 11; pp. 1535 - 1538
Main Authors:	McBride, Colleen M, Comeau, Dawn L, Mastin, Ashley E, Cooper, Hannah L F
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Public Health Association 01-11-2019
Subjects:	Active learning AJPH Public Health of Consequence Collaboration Competition Culture Education, Public Health Professional - organization & administration Education, Public Health Professional - standards Entrepreneurs Faculty - organization & administration Faculty - standards Fellowships and Scholarships - standards Grants Health Education Health Professionals Humans Incentives Innovations Leadership Mentors Minority & ethnic groups Organizational Culture Other Statistics/Evaluation/Research Pedagogy Public health Public Health Practice Research funding Roles Scholarship Schools Science Social Science Success Teaching Teaching methods Workflow Writing Writing - standards Writing/Reviewing/Publishing Atlanta Georgia United States > US
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Summary:	A confluence of challenges is impeding faculty members' ability to prioritize research with the goal of achieving a public health of consequence: research designed to improve conditions to produce a healthier society. Together, these challenges create a "churn" culture in which faculty focus on generating new business (i.e., grant funding and associated incentives) to replace lost revenue (i.e., expiring grants); this culture can relegate public health impact to a back seat.We share three strategies and related insights from our efforts to shift our department's cultural narrative from churn to a "scholarship of consequence": crafting research proposals of consequence, fostering thought leadership through collaborative writing, and mentoring faculty with a view to a scholarship of consequence.We describe each of the strategies and interim progress. Although they are a work in progress, we conclude that despite initial concerns, our evaluation metrics indicate improvement.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Peer Reviewed D. L. Comeau oversaw the development process for the individual development plan. A. E. Mastin collected the data and computed the metrics. All authors participated in writing and editing the commentary. CONTRIBUTORS
ISSN:	0090-0036 1541-0048
DOI:	10.2105/AJPH.2019.305266