TUMS - Center for Academic and Helth Policy (CAHP)

This center has been founded targeting at promoting decision making and policy making processes based on evidence and improving as well as mitigating its internal processes in TUMS. It is responsible for providing logistic scientific support and enabling different executive fields of the university to run the decision making processes based on evidence. Besides, organizing the practical investigations (Health Service Researches) and responding to the University by developing evidence based strategies and policies are among the responsibilities held by the center.

To fulfill this range of responsibilities, different measures have been taken including:

- Change in admission of medical students; having investigated the process of admission of medical students, these processes have undergone some changes based on scientific evidence.

- Stating “quality improvement” among the ancillary values of the University and entering “clinical governance” and “clinical audit” to the strategic plans of hospitals, educating and training as well as creating the necessary capacities for quality improvement and creating trends for guidance and planning are among other activities conducted in this center. After piloting these in two of the affiliated hospitals, at the time being, these practices are being conducted in all affiliated hospitals.

- Developing the long term science and technology plan or scientific map of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with cooperation and contribution of several stakeholders and thinkers and in line with the scientific map of the country.

- Developing investigative and research macro priorities of the university which could provide the research activities with main guidelines.

- Contribution to the processes of applying the results of the investigations and knowledge translation in TUMS. Using the scientific evidence and analyzing the current conditions of the country as well as university, the fields for improving these processes have been recognized and some interventions have been proposed which are operational in the university.

- Developing and providing past year performance report and the action plan of the next year for different units of TUMS including departments, deputies, research centers and hospitals. This has provided a great help for the decision making processes in the university and provides a clear picture of the changes occurred.