Strategic Plan

OPPORTUNITY PROPOSAL STRATEGIES
I.  Build the framework for a national collaboration in Maternal, Infant, Child & Youth health research A.  Create an organizational vehicle to engage key stakeholders
  1. Define the organizational hierarchy, membership and affiliations
  2. Establish the legal and charitable status
  3. Determine key standing committees and working groups
B.  Create a communication strategy to link and inform
  1. Build the Coordinating Centre to link sites nationally and beyond
  2. Develop role of “site correspondents” who support networks and multicentre studies, and relay info to/from Coordinating Centre
  3. Expand website to showcase reports, reviews and inventories; and provide member working space
  4. Provide regular progress reports by the Newsletter
  5. Conduct site visits by MICYRN leadership
  6. Hold regular conference calls with executive and working group committees
C.  Build the Team
  1. Create analytic and logistic capacity to support decision making
  2. Project manager(s) track and promote progress on initiatives
D.  Develop funding
  1. Promote support for MICYRN in existing site research budgets
  2. Use MICYRN funds to leverage proposals to traditional funding sources
II.  Enhance productivity of the mother-infant-child-youth research community A.  Sustain and augment collaborative research networks and networking activities
  1. Identify existing networks
  2. Determine multicentre research activities
  3. Support development of new networks
  4. Identify opportunities for joint ventures
  5. Promote good team relationships
B.  Develop key methodology- technology platforms
  1. Determine areas of common need and identify opportunities to reduce duplication of effort and create best practices
C.  Reduce impediments to multicentre research activity
  1. Work towards efficient multi-jurisdictional REB review of maternal-child research proposals
  2. Work towards timely multi-site negotiation of clinical trials contracts
III.  Enhance the quality and safety of maternal-child research activities A.  Build human resource capacity
  1. Determine and augment opportunities for training and continuous professional development
  2. Promote funding models to ensure sufficient protected, non-clinical time for investigators
  3. Promote funding models to recruit and retain highly qualified core staff
B.  Promote standards and best practices
  1. Provide access to existing standards
  2. Create opportunities to develop standards and to share best practices