Thank you.
I think it's really important that we translate the data into policy and practice.
How do we do that? We do that with having open partnerships with the people who are going to use the data. We develop the research questions at the very beginning with the community organizations, the decision-makers and the policy-makers, so that we're producing the questions that are relevant to those who need to use the data.
When I started research, I was just the researcher. I did the work, I published it and I walked away. That's not my job anymore. My job is now to take the data and put it into the hands of the people who can use it and make it come to life.
We still don't have that connection very well between doing the research and translating the research into both policy and clinical practice.
There are lots of mechanisms in place now where we can build those relationships so that we're all working together to produce the information that we need. Then when you ask me how we know if kids are doing worse because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we'll know this because we have data. Researchers are answering the questions that the policy-makers and the decision-makers want to know, so we can turn that data into policy and into practice.