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About the Houston Health Services Research Collaborative...

Goals

• To facilitate and enhance research and analyses related to public health and healthcare problems in Houston, particularly of low-income, uninsured, and other vulnerable populations.
• To facilitate and enhance research and analyses of policy and program initiatives aimed at expanding the capacity and performance of the public health and health care safety net in Houston

Objectives

• Organize working groups in topical areas to increase research awareness, encourage coordination, and foster new activity.
• Identify existing research resources in the community and assist in directing them to meet community research needs.
• Develop, manage, and facilitate the shared use of databases to monitor local health problems and health service performance.
• Participate in and provide assistance to policy and program planning initiatives.