KRA offers consultation to support a wide spectrum of client needs and activities. These services encompass developing strategic plans for new initiatives, marketing of ideas, programs or products, and providing assistance in the design of implementation strategies. The following is a partial listing of KRA services.
Planning, Evaluation & Development of Programs
- Assessing ongoing programs and developing new programs in basic, clinical or services research, education and training
- Establishing comprehensive community-based demonstration programs on models of care and services
- Developing strategies for restructuring programs and recruiting new talent
- Re-engineering/design/implementation of scientific programs for industry, foundations and private voluntary health organizations
- Developing contracts, grants proposals and business plans
- Pre-submission review and recommendations on research grants, contact proposals and other applications for funding
- Forming multi-site drug discovery teams finding of novel molecular targets and lead compounds
- Designing integrated multi-disciplinary research programs, clinical trials and epidemiological field studies
- Coordinating collaborative clinical trials on pharmacological and behavioral interventions site selection, training and qualification, protocol development, study design, coordination, data monitoring and analysis and preparation of manuscript
- Preparing, reviewing and submitting INDs and, administering compliance of FDA regulations
Organizing & Managing Scientific Meetings
- Conferences reviewing the "state of the art" in research, clinical care services or public policy
- Long-range research planning Think-Tanks, Strategic planning Futurist Work Groups, and Consensus-Development Work Groups
- Educational workshops on research, treatment, care and services for lay audiences
- Peer-Review-Groups or Evaluation-Panels for assessing technical merits and program effectiveness
- Monitoring boards for clinical trials on: data integrity, subject safety and ethics
Translation of Technical Knowledge & Communications
- Technical writing - position papers, editorials, manuscripts, articles, reviews, books, grant and contract proposals, and business plans
- Translating scientific findings for both general and targeted audiences
- Specialty educational and technical training seminars
- Scientific and medical news communication
- Lectures and presentations