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From the Associate Director
Hannah Frank, Ph.D.
Happy Spring from the BRIDGE Program! We have lots of exciting news to share with you in this edition of our newsletter. We provide an overview of awards recently received by members of our team, training opportunities (another Bootcamp coming soon!), and a recap of the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Annual Meeting. We were thrilled to see many of our colleagues at the SBM Meeting and look forward to seeing more of you at the upcoming Society for Implementation Research Collaboration conference this fall!
BRIDGE Team Highlights
Emily Fu was selected to receive the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s 2024 Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her dissertation is comprised of three studies to develop the Observational Assessment Tool for Tailoring (OATT) to measure interventionist fidelity to tailoring in pediatric obesity interventions. The OATT provides an explicit definition of tailoring and integral components to measure efficacy, guide future tailored intervention designs, and be used as an ongoing strategy for monitoring fidelity to tailoring. She received the award during the conference's Presidential Keynote and Awards Ceremony in March. Her faculty nominator for the award was Andrea Graham at Northeastern University.
Alethea Desrosiers, Ph.D.
Read more about Dr. Desrosiers →
Dr. Alethea Desrosiers received the coveted Fulbright Specialist Award to continue her work in Bogotá, Colombia. Focusing on implementation science in the global mental health context, Dr. Desrosier's work utilizes user-centered design and task-sharing approaches to improve delivery quality of evidence-based interventions for vulnerable populations of youth and families globally. While there, she will collaborate with colleagues at the great Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Rani Elwy, Ph.D.
Dr. Rani Elwy received the prestigious Presidential Leadership Award (PLS), class of 2024. Through "interactions with former presidents, key administration officials, leading academics, and business and civic leaders," this course offers awardees the opportunity to expand and hone leadership skills, nurturing their sense of purpose and sense of self-efficacy around accomplishing their goals.
Explore with BRIDGE
July 10-12, 2024 in Providence, Rhode Island
Join us for for our 3-day Implementation Science Bootcamp to learn the skills and tools needed to increase the adoption of evidence-based practices, treatments, and interventions in clinical and community-based settings. Attendees have the opportunity to engage with implementation scientists on everything from foundational theories to practical application of a personal project. Thank you to everyone who came to our February edition!
"This bootcamp made [IS] material far more approachable and engaging. I feel like I’m walking away with a far better understanding of when and how to use these tools and frameworks and am looking forward to applying them in my upcoming grant application." -February Attendee
Register here →
Upcoming Events
VA Health Systems Research Cyber Seminars
Throughout April, the Veteran's Affairs for Health System Research will host various webinars, some of which are implementation science themed: "Comparing the CFIR-ERIC Matching Tool Recommendations to Real-World Strategy Effectiveness Data," "Implementation Determinants of a Virtual Telehealth Program for Patients with Persistently Poorly Controlled Diabetes," "Financing Strategies to Promote Evidence-Based Practice Implementation and Sustainment: Examples from Behavioral Health," and more.
2024 SIRC Conference Call for Submissions
The Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) is hosting its biennial conference September 27-28th in Denver, CO (with pre-conference workshops on the 26th). The deadline to submit abstracts is April 30th. Regular registration opens June 11th. The goal of SIRC is to "facilitate collaboration, inspiration, and shared learning about cutting-edge advancements in implementation practice, policy, and research" with the theme of Strategic Synergy: Implementation Research, Practice and Policy for Impact for this years conference.
Call for submissions →
Recent Events
SBM Annual Meeting
The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) hosted their 45th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions this March in Philadelphia, PA. SBM is, "dedicated to improving health and quality of live through proven behavioral science," with this years conference theme being Moving Behavioral Science Upstream. BRIDGE members (starting top left) Grace Smith, Emily Fu, Linda Guzman, Jackie Hayes (& her baby!), and Ariana Albanese attended and presented their work. Again, Emily Fu received the Outstanding Dissertation Award.
SBM.org →
NASPOG Biennial Meeting
The North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology (NASPOG) hosted their biennial meeting this March in Denver, CO. The mission of NASPOG is, "to promote the study and clinical application of the neurobiological and psychosocial aspects of women’s health and well-being across the life span" and this years conference theme was Discovery and Power to Advance Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan. Dr. Albanese presented her project, “Protocol for a scoping review of harm reduction approaches for cannabis use in the perinatal patient population.”
NASPOG.org →
Mind Brain Research Day
Brown's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Carney Institute for Brain Science hosted the 26th annual Mind Brain Research Day this March in Providence, RI, featuring poster sessions and a keynote address. Many BRIDGE members attended and presented their work on a variety of subjects. The keynote address was from Dr. Wayne Goodman on "Deep Brain Stimulation for Intractable OCD."
CUGH Annual Conference & Panel
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) hosted their annual conference this March in Los Angeles, CA. The mission of CUGH is to "improve the well-being of people and the planet through education, research, service, and advocacy," with the theme of this years conference being Global Health Without Borders: Acting for Impact, with 7 sub-themes. Dr. Desrosiers spoke on a panel titled, "Lessons from the Field: Case Studies in Global Implementation Science." Join CUGH February 20-23 in Atlanta, GA for their 2025 conference.
CUGH.org →
Funding & Training Opportunity
Mountain States Partnership for Community-Engaged Dissemination & Implementation (MS-CEDI) Training Institute (2024-2025)
This training program is designed for new and established investigators and their community partners who intend to submit a federal grant application centered on community-engaged, health equity focused implementation science research within the next year. It consists of a workshop on August 11-16 in Albuquerque, NM, followed by a 9 month (September '24 to May '25) Implementation Science grant development process.
Find out more →
Recent BRIDGE and Brown Implementation Science Publications
Youth, caregiver, and clinician perspectives of youth Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in a psychological training clinic: Lessons from early adopters
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Advancing sustainable implementation of an evidence-based mental health intervention in Sierra Leone’s schools: Protocol for a hybrid type 3 implementation-effectiveness trial
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Technology-assisted parenting intervention plus therapist coaching: a pilot randomized trial in a community practice setting.
A hybrid type 1 trial of a multi-component mHealth intervention to improve post-hospital transitions of care for patients with serious mental illness: Study protocol
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Implementation Science Resource
Evidence on the effectiveness of implementation strategies: A landscape review.
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BRIDGE in the Media
"Diversity SPEAKS"
The newsletter from the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee out of the Department of Psychiatry of Human Behavior was wonderful and featured lots of BRIDGE members! Dr. Ruben Martinez was a prominently featured interviewee, Dr. Linda Guzman was a behind the scenes creator and interviewer, Dr. Trisha Arnold provided a book review, and Dr. Ariana Albanese, along with Guzman and Arnold, were in a picture from an Events Subcommittee meeting.
Follow our new Instagram!
We've made an Instagram! We hope to use this page to disseminate implementation science knowledge and resources in an accessible and bite-sized way. We also plan on highlighting our BRIDGE team and Bootcamp, as well as prominent publications and other general happenings in the impsci community.
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