Administrative Core

摘要 阿片类药物危机是一个复杂和动态的问题，影响着相当多的人和社区。 并产生巨大的公共卫生和社会成本。今天的情况是几十年来 各自导致问题的无人关注的问题，以及危机的持续快速演变 需要来自不同学科和视角的合作努力，以理清 我们的公共卫生、医疗保健、公共安全、 执法和刑事司法系统的这些复杂性。兰德阿片类药物政策中心 研究(COPR)旨在将一群非凡的多学科学者聚集在一起，以开发 能够推动科学向前发展的必要的可靠和相关的数据、严谨的方法和政策工具 迅速确定能够为基于证据的阿片类药物政策提供信息的有效战略。目的 行政核心(AC)负责提供领导和支持，并协助调查小组 中心目标的执行情况。AC将提供全面的科学监督和质量管理 通过制定一套中心范围的、特定于项目和DMC的标准，在整个COPR中进行控制 将对COPR所有方面进行正式审查和监督的操作程序(SOP)。这个 制定这些标准作业程序，同时设立中心的外部咨询委员会， 将确保有效地开展中心活动，并将重点放在最紧迫和最相关的 阿片类药物政策问题，以解决该领域面临的最突出的方法学挑战。通过监督 COPR管理支持和沟通，利用丰富的协作和沟通工具 在我们的研究环境中，咨询委员会将促进内部沟通和合作，鼓励 协同作用，并促进整个COPR的团队科学。鉴于阿片类药物危机的高度动态性质， 阿片类药物政策环境，AC将作为该中心的首要资源，以保持与新的 作为阿片类药物市场出现的政策领域、层面、结果和问题以及与以下方面相关的问题 它们会移动。因此，咨询委员会将负责选择针对新出现的阿片类药物的试点项目 还将提供内容领域的指导，以支持这些研究。最后，咨询委员会将建立一个 专门的通信和传播部门(CDA)，以最大限度地促进研究、传播和政策 冲击力。通过将这种集中式通信基础设施安置在AC中，我们确保COPR研究 工具、数据和调查结果在内部中心内进行最有效的沟通和传播 团队和附属机构，以及更广泛的受众，包括研究人员、决策者和 普罗大众。总而言之，咨询委员会的活动将增强我们确保科学严谨的能力，促进多方面的 学科协作，并将综合和广泛传播来自 COPR，以增进我们对危机的理解，并产生有意义的政策影响。

ABSTRACT The opioid crisis is a complex and dynamic problem, affecting a significant number of people and communities and generating tremendous public health and social costs. The situation today arose out of decades of unattended issues that each contributed to the problem, and the continued rapid evolution of the crisis necessitates collaborative efforts that draw from diverse disciplines and perspectives in order to disentangle the wide range of activities, responsibilities, and challenges facing our public health, health care, public safety, law enforcement and criminal justice systems these complexities. The RAND Center for Opioid Policy Research (COPR) aims to bring together an extraordinary group of multi-disciplinary scholars to develop the necessary reliable and relevant data, rigorous methods, and policy tools that can push the science forward quickly in the identification of effective strategies that can inform evidence-based opioid policy. The purpose of the Administrative Core (AC) is to provide that leadership and support and facilitate the investigative teams in the execution of the Center’s objectives. The AC will provide overall scientific oversight and manage quality control throughout COPR by developing a set of Center-wide and Project- and DMC-specific Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that will formalize review and oversight for all aspects of the COPR. The development of these SOPs, in combination with the establishment of the Center’s External Advisory Board, will ensure that Center activities are conducted efficiently and are focusing on the most pressing and relevant opioid policy issues to address the most salient methodological challenges faced by the field. By overseeing COPR administrative support and communication, leveraging the rich collaboration and communication tools within our research environment, the AC will promote internal communication and collaboration, encourage synergy, and facilitate team science across COPR. Given the highly dynamic nature of the opioid crisis and opioid policy environment, the AC will serve as the Center’s overarching resource for staying abreast of new policy areas, dimensions, outcomes, and issues that arise as opioid markets and the problems associated with them shift. The AC will thus take responsibility for the selection of Pilot Projects addressing emerging opioid issues and will also provide content-area guidance to support these studies. Finally, the AC will establish a dedicated Communications and Dissemination Arm (CDA) to maximize research dissemination and policy impact. By housing this centralized communication infrastructure in the AC, we ensure that COPR research tools, data, and findings are most effectively communicated and disseminated both within the internal Center team and affiliated institutions, as well as to a broader audience, including researchers, policymakers, and the general public. Combined, the AC’s activities will enhance our ability to ensure scientific rigor, promote multi- disciplinary collaboration, and will synthesize and broadly disseminate the rich information coming out of COPR in order to advance our understanding of the crisis and generate meaningful policy impact.