COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Policy
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1549326
Building an agile state-wide research infrastructure to address COVID-19 and emerging threats: insights from an equity-centered public health and academic collaboration in California
Provisionally accepted
Priya Shete1*
Nicole Santos1
Hilary Spindler1
Tomás León2Maya Petersen3A Marm Kilpatrick4Seema Jain2James Watt2Rohan Radhakrishna2Erica Pan2Tomás Aragón2- 1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
- 2California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, United States
- 3University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
- 4University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States
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The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for efficient real-time evidence generation to inform public health interventions and policies. To address this gap, a formalized research partnership between the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the University of California (UC) was created. The aim of this case study is to describe the achievements and lessons learned from the California Collaborative for Public Health Research (CPR3). This state-wide infrastructure (1) streamlines data sharing and use between UC researchers and public health agencies; (2) sets priority research agendas that reflect the needs of the state's diverse communities; and (3) fosters research collaboration and evidence translation. This partnership may serve as a guide for how academic and public health entities can jointly prioritize, conduct, and act upon policy-relevant research for current and emerging threats.
Keywords: data sharing, evidence to policy translation, research prioritization, modeling, collaboration
Received: 20 Dec 2024; Accepted: 23 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Shete, Santos, Spindler, León, Petersen, Kilpatrick, Jain, Watt, Radhakrishna, Pan and Aragón. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Priya Shete, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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