By Institute for Public Health • If you hear a presentation by Professor of Medicine, Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD, from the Division of Infectious Disease at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, you immediately sense that she is passionate, well spoken, driven and committed to work that drives impact. Since joining the Department of Medicine in September […]
Category: Spotlight
Brown School Faculty published in Implementation Science (Links to an external site)
Assistant professor Rebecca Lengnick-Hall was published in a leading implementation science journal for collaborative research that describes eight characteristics of high-quality, multilevel implementation research. Make sure to check out the supplemental files where you’ll find tools to make things concrete .
Center names Powell co-director (Links to an external site)
Institute for Public Health leaders are pleased to announce that Brown School Associate Professor, Byron J. Powell, PhD, has been named co-director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation alongside Director, Elvin Geng, MD. Powell also will continue to lead the center’s Implementation Methods & Metascience Initiative.
Prevention Research Center (PRC) staff spotlight: Sarah Pritchard (Links to an external site)
Sarah Pritchard’s training is in system dynamics, but her passion lies in equity and systems change. Read about why her position on the PRC’s leadership team on equity, diversity and inclusion is a perfect fit.
Last chance to apply for the latest HIGH IRI cohort (Links to an external site)
Open to early career researchers (PhDs/MDs and equivalent) at post-doctoral or junior faculty level, the HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Health Implementation Research Institute is a training program is accepting applications for its third cohort through April 3 at 5pm CST.
Student collaborator works to support refugee mental health in Uganda (Links to an external site)
Learn about D&I collaborator, Flora Cohen, and her work in Uganda.
Study considers social determinants of health (Links to an external site)
Patients with social needs experienced a higher number of hospitalizations, obesity, prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes, finds a new study from Maura Kepper at the Brown School on the social determinants of health.
D&I Rural Health Symposium helps build “stronger collaborations in broader communities” (Links to an external site)
The recent D&I rural health symposium helped build collaborations among rural health care providers and implementation scientists.
WashU teams partner to demonstrate how implementation science can improve health services and change communities (Links to an external site)
The Translational Science Benefit Model (TSBM) and Implementation Research Institute (IRI) teams worked to develop six imact case studies that showcase the impact of IRI fellows’ and alums’ work, and the impact of the IRI itself as a mentored network.
New study by doctoral student provides overview of frameworks and models to reduce ineffective healthcare services and public health programs (Links to an external site)
De-implementation is a process studied in a broad array of disciplines, yet implementation science has thus far been limited in the integration of learnings from other fields. A study led by Callie Walsh-Bailey that was published in Implementation Science offers an overview of frameworks and models that implementation researchers and practitioners can use to inform their […]