2025 Scientific Meeting
Pre-conference Implementation Science Speaker Series

Thursday, November 7, 2024

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST

Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD

Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Co-Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
UC San Diego

Profile

Title: Introduction to Implementation Science - need, terminology, examples, and resources

Borsika Rabin PhD, MPH, PharmD is an Associate Professor and Founding Faculty at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Co-Director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC) and the San Diego CFAR Implementation Science Hub, and an MPI, PI, and dissemination and implementation (D&I) science expert on a number of NIH and VA Center grants and research projects. Her research focuses on improving population health outcomes in real-world clinical and public health settings through increasing the equitable reach, adoption, implementation, and sustained use of evidence-based interventions. She does this through the development of models, methods, and measures for D&I science and their application across diverse topic areas, populations, and settings to demonstrate their wide utility and broad generalizability. Dr. Rabin is committed to learning how best to meaningfully partner with community and clinical partners to co-create solutions. She has multiple NIH-funded research grants that are centered around improving health outcomes and well-being for underserved communities. She has extensive expertise in developing and implementing novel D&I science capacity building approaches including the D&I Models in Health webtool (https://dissemination-implementation.org) and the ACCORDS D&I Science Certificate Program at the University of Colorado for which she serves as a Co-Director.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST

LauraEllen Ashcraft, PhD, MSW

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
University of Pennsylvania

Profile

Title: Implementation Science Frameworks

LauraEllen Ashcraft is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ashcraft is also an Implementation Science Methodologist in the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA, where she also serves as the Co-Director of the Dissemination & Implementation Science Core.