Molly Martin, MD, MAPP CDIS Associate Director for Community Engagement The University of Illinois Chicago has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as the principal site of a multi-center collaborative in the Chicago area that will bolster research and outreach to help communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. As part of the [...]
Kate Merrill, PhD, CDIS Post-Doctoral Fellow, published “‘So hurt and broken’: A qualitative study of experiences of violence and HIV outcomes among Zambian youth living with HIV” in Global Public Health. The article summarizes the findings from in-depth interviews with adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Ndola, Zambia, to better understand the relationship between violence [...]
Natasha Crooks, PhD Several University of Illinois Chicago faculty members have addressed the issue of how to ethically conduct research with Black populations. In their paper “Ethics of Research at the Intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: A Call to Action,” authors Natasha Crooks, an assistant professor, Phoenix Matthews, a professor, both [...]
Friday, April 16th, 2021 12:00pm-2:30pm via Zoom Register in Advance: https://go.uic.edu/CDIS-DI-Workshop This virtual workshop will: Provide the foundation to understand dissemination and implementation science Review terminology, theory and methods Discuss key concepts, frameworks, and innovative designs Topics will benefit healthcare professionals, researchers, students and staff interested in moving evidence-based interventions into real-world settings. Presented by: [...]
This year's Summer Institute on Innovative Methods, "Building effective just-in-time adaptive interventions using micro-randomized trial designs," will be offered on October 25-26th. Susan Murphy, professor of statistics and computer science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University, and Daniel Almirall, research associate professor at The University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, will introduce the [...]
On Friday, February 19th from 9am-12pm CST, the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science will host a Fireside Chat with Dr. Bethany Bray on Latent Class Analysis. This half-day workshop will be an open discussion session designed to help participants start posing and addressing research questions in their own areas that could be answered using [...]
“Cluster-level adaptive interventions and associated clustered sequentially randomized trial designs” Thursday, January 14th, 2021 11:00AM–12:15 PM via Zoom Register in advance: https://go.uic.edu/CDIS_Colloquium_Jan21 CDIS Colloquium Series Co-Sponsored by CDIS, Richard Weber, and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Daniel Almirall, PhD Associate Professor Co-Director, Data Science for Dynamic Intervention Decision-making Laboratory (d3lab) Survey Research Center, Institute for [...]
Julie Bobitt, PhD is joining the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (CDIS) as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Bobitt’s primary research interests focus on the dissemination and implementation of programs and policies that impact the well-being of older adults, and her work promises to enhance CDIS’ mission to advance implementation research, practice, and education. Dr. [...]
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science (CDIS) is delighted to welcome Molly Martin, MD, MAPP as its new Associate Director for Community Engagement. Dr. Martin brings to the Center a wealth of experience in implementation science and community-based participatory research. She will lead CDIS’s Development Core, enhance the Center’s relationships with non-academic communities and [...]
Following the success of our July workshop, "Introduction to Latent Class and Latent Profile Analysis," CDIS is offering additional half-day Methods Workshops, presented by Bethany Bray, PhD, Associate Director for Scientific Outreach at CDIS, and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. All workshops will take place on the third Friday of each month this [...]
