The 2023 American Burn Association Research and Advocacy Summit: Our Roadmap

Research is one of the American burn association's (ABA) strategic priorities. Advocacy is required not only to promote burn research, but also, the ABA's other strategic priorities (Prevention, Quality, and Education). The ABA convened a two-day Research and Advocacy (R&A) Summit in September 2023, to develop a roadmap for the organization's R&A efforts. The in-person summit identified fourteen key R&A initiatives. A multidisciplinary workgroup then developed strategies to achieve each initiative. The initiatives and strategies were then approved by the ABA's Board of Trustees as our organization's roadmap for R&A. The next task will be to implement the initiatives. This will require not only oversight from the ABA's Board of Trustees, but also effort from and collaboration between several of the ABA's committees and panels, including the burn science advisory panel, the research committee, the prevention committee, The governmental affairs committee, The organization and delivery of burn care committee, the quality and burn registry committee, the ad hoc Coding Committee, and the ABA's Central Office.