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• NIOSH-funded extramural research:

♦ Requests for proposals, cooperative agreements and research con-

tracts distributed.

♦ Awardee products, including close-out reports, surveillance, re-

search, and transfer activities, peer-reviewed publications, and
patents.

• Products and technology transfer:

♦ Data related to program publications, conferences, recommenda-

tions, patents, and so on.

♦ Past and planned mechanisms for transferring outputs to

outcomes.

♦ Interventions, recommendations, and information-dissemination

and technology-transfer activities designed to get research findings
used to improve occupational safety and health.

♦ Outcomes of research, alerts, standard-setting, investigations, and

consultations; for example—documented reductions in risk after
program-supported interventions, employer and industry behav-
ior changes made in response to research outputs, and worker
behavior changes in response to research outputs.

• Impact on worker safety and health—data necessary to evaluate pro-

gram impact on health outcomes (work-related injuries and illnesses)
and exposures.

• The most severe or most frequent adverse health and safety outcomes

or exposures in the research program and the most accessible improve-
ments with respect to health and safety.

• Interactions within NIOSH and with other stakeholders:

♦ The role of program research staff in NIOSH policy-setting, Oc-

cupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Mine
Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) standard-setting,
and voluntary standard-setting and other government policy
functions.

♦ Other institutions and research programs with overlapping or

similar portfolios and an explanation of the relationship between
the NIOSH work and staff and those of other institutions.

♦ Stakeholder perspectives (OSHA, MSHA, union and workforce,

industry, and so on.)

♦ Key partnerships with employers, labor, other government orga-

nizations, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and

♦ International involvement and perspective.

• Systems to identify emerging problems and emerging research, includ-

ing plans.