Value Assessment Task Force

The Value Assessment Task Force closely partners with each of the funded studies, providing support and guidance on assessing the economic viability and financial impact of FIM intervention. They review study protocols to ensure effective economic evaluation, evaluate simulation models for long-term cost-effectiveness, and advise on data collection for high-quality economic evaluations. They also contribute to a handbook for FIM researchers, collaborate with the Statistics Task Force on risk prediction and participant selection, and create checklists for each touchpoint, including a customized protocol review form.

Shelby Reed

Shelby Reed
Shelby Reed Bio

Brandon Bellows

Brandon Bellows, PharmD, MS
Brandon Bellows Bio

David Cohen

David Cohen, MD
David Cohen Bio

Sanjay Basu

Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Bio

Kurt Hager

Kurt Hager, PhD
Kurt Hager Bio

David D. Kim

David D. Kim, PhD
David D. Kim Bio

Louise B. Russell

Louise B. Russell, PhD
Louise B. Russell Bio

Davene Wright

Davene Wright, PhD
Davene Wright Bio

EJ Cheon

EJ Cheon

Common Measures for AHA Health Care by Food Funded Studies

Central to the American Heart Association's Health Care by Food  initiative is the integration of evidence-based practices and measurable outcomes. To track progress and impact, the initiative developed a set of Common Measures, a standardized set of metrics designed to facilitate the comparison of data across food is medicine research.

Shared metrics are vital for pooling data across studies, to produce more generalizable insights and to allow for more comparability between studies, moving us toward a better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions.

To improve fidelity for merging data sets and facilitating use of the common measures, an accompanying code book (XLSX file) was designed and is available for use.

Common Measures