Year 5 Work Plan Objectives

Convene plenary sessions at network annual meetings to discuss new developments and their implications for network science, take stock of lessons from related domains, provide new and ongoing adherence counselor training, elicit community working group input on adherence measurement and counseling, etc.
Create a repository of measures, data forms, and standardized core elements of interventions accessible to partnering networks. The documents and links will be housed on the HANC public website and/or the HANC portal.
Collate and analyze behavioral data elements across network studies.
Collaborate on shared, permanent products such as white papers or manuscripts, conference proceedings and workshops. The Working Group will host a face-to-face behavioral science meeting and two focus groups in Year 5.
Study and promote the development and implementation cross-network/trans-Institute studies and/or behavioral data elements in network studies. Analyze funding and review procedures.
Improve information exchange among network-affiliated behavioral and social scientists. HANC will collate names of investigators associated with network working groups addressing behavioral issues. Create and manage a “Behavioral Science Interest Group” list serve whereby researchers can receive updates from the field, links to influential articles, network study updates, meeting information, etc.