Developing Evidence to Support Policy: Protocol for the StrAtegic PoLicy EvIdence-Based Evaluation CeNTer (SALIENT)

Mary Jo Pugh   ^{1, 2} , PhD, RN ;   Jolie N Haun   ^{2, 3} , EdS, PhD ;   P Jon White   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Gerald Cochran   ^{1, 2} , MSW, PhD ;   April F Mohanty   ^{1, 2} , MPH, PhD ;   Lisa M McAndrew   ⁴ , PhD ;   Adam J Gordon   ^{1, 2} , MPH, MD ;   Richard E Nelson   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Megan E Vanneman   ^{1, 2, 5} , MPH, PhD ;   Diana E Naranjo   ^{1, 2} , MPH, PhD ;   Rachel C Benzinger   ³ , BA ;   Audrey L Jones   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Jacob Kean   ^{1, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Susan L Zickmund   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Angela Fagerlin   ^{1, 5} , PhD

¹ VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Informatics, Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

² Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

³ James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Research and Development Service, Tampa, FL, United States

⁴ War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, Veterans Affairs New Jersey Healthcare System, East Orange, NJ, United States

⁵ Department of Population Health Sciences, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

⁶ VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure, Salt Lake City, UT, United States