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HSR&D Resource Centers
HSR&D provides core funding to three Resource Centers that support HSR&D management and the COEs by providing data, consultation, and focused research on management issues, health economics and systems.
Health Economics Resource Center (HERC), Menlo Park, CA
Center Focus:
- economics research
- cost-effectiveness
Contact
Paul G. Barnett, PhD
(650) 617-2630;
email: herc@va.gov
web site: http://www.herc.research.va.gov
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VA Information Resource Center (VIREC), Hines, IL
Center Focus:
- Support VA researchers using databases and informatics by creating a knowledge base of factual and evaluative information about VA and select non-VA data
- Disseminate information via Help Desk, publications, Web site, research user guides to select data sources, HSRData Listserv
- Represent the interests of VA researchers using databases and information systems through formal and informal liaison within VA and with other health care agencies and organizations
Contact
Denise M. Hynes, PhD
(708) 202-2413;
email: denise.hynes@va.gov
web site: http://www.virec.research.va.gov/
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Center for Information Dissemination and Education Resources, Boston, MA
Center Focus
- Developing publications and managing HSR&D national dissemination efforts;
- Managing the national HSR&D and QUERI websites;
- Planning and facilitating meetings and conferences, including HSR&D and QUERI national meetings and state-of-the-art conferences;
- Coordinating HSR&D cyber seminars; and
- Developing HSR&D contributions to R&D publications and other VA and non-VA publications and products.
Contact
Geraldine McGlynn, MEd
(617) 232-9500, ext. 44944
email: geraldine.mcglynn@va.gov
web site: http://www.cider.research.va.gov/
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