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Strategic Goals

KHI’s three-year strategic plan advances the consortium’s mission in response to the evolving needs of its members and the broader kidney community. This plan is guided by three strategic goals across KHI’s projects and initiatives, as identified by KHI’s Board of Directors (BOD) and Patient and Family Partnership Council (PFPC), and in collaboration with ex-officio liaisons from the federal government and ASN leadership.
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Goal 1: Address Regulatory Science Gaps

KHI will accomplish this by:

  • Guiding the development of innovative treatment options across all ages and all stages of kidney health, including transplant.
  • Defining innovation pathways that catalyze development of patient-centered and safer vascular access.
  • Strengthening prioritization, design, and conduct of pediatric kidney clinical trials.
  • Considering, evaluating, and pursuing emerging opportunities in cellular, genetic, and other innovative therapies for kidney health.

Goal 2: Strengthen a Patient-Centered Culture to Develop Kidney Innovations

KHI will accomplish this by:

  • Developing resources that strengthen engagement of patients and care partners with innovators developing patient-centered biologics, devices, and drugs.
  • Increasing patient participation in kidney clinical trials through resources that inform kidney patient advocacy organizations, families and care partners, and people with kidney diseases.

Goal 3: Implement a Culture of Continuous Improvement in an Expanding Kidney Innovation Ecosystem

KHI will accomplish this by:

  • Identifying opportunities for collaborations within an evolving kidney innovation ecosystem through engagement within and external to KHI’s community.
    • Establishing each KHI activity and project with an evaluation framework, including timelines and deliverables.
  • Ensuring objectivity and transparency in KHI’s governance, decision-making, activities, and projects.
  • Communicating to the kidney community on progress towards KHI goals through updates and evaluations of projects and activities.
  • Communicating lessons learned from KHI’s strategies, goals, projects, activities, and operational processes to advance other strategically aligned organizations.