Goals and Objectives of The Center for Public Health Systems & Services Research

In the fall of 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health (UKCPH) to develop a database for Public Health Systems & Services Research (PHSSR) in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to strengthen the capacity to conduct research in the emerging field of public health systems.

The Goal of UKCPH is to assure the future of Public Health Systems & Service Research by encouraging young investigators to engage in research using datasets described in the PHSSR subset of NLM’s Health Services Research Resources.  One of the project objectives is to disseminate information about the new NLM PHSSR database to the research community.