Strategic Planning and Evidence-Building Planning Logistics and Research Support for Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis. In this role, ASPE, through its Office of Science and Data Policy (OSDP), is responsible for developing the HHS Strategic Plan and the HHS Evidence-Building Plan (the plans) every four years. The Strategic Plan, aligned or realigned at the beginning of each Presidential term, articulates the agency’s mission, long-term goals for implementing that mission, strategies, and approaches to monitor progress in addressing specific national problems, needs, challenges, and mission-related opportunities. The Evidence-Building Plan lays out the agency’s priority questions to be answered; activities the agency will engage in to address the priority questions; the timing of the activities; potential data, tools, methods, and analytical approaches to be used to answer priority questions; and anticipated agency-specific challenges and proposes solutions to developing evidence to support agency priorities.
Between September 2024 and March 2026, New Editions supports ASPE’s OSDP in the effort to develop the FY2026-2030 plans, which includes the following activities:
- Review and crosswalk existing strategic planning and evidence-building materials
- Develop and implement a process to gather feedback from HHS staff and the public
- Provide recommendations for the plans’ content based on the feedback received
- Develop strategic planning and evidence building resources and materials
- Design a framework for tracking HHS evidence-building activities