Dr. Steven John (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Core Faculty member of the Center for AIDS Intervention Research, and Co-Director of the Prevention and Implementation Sciences Training Lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received formalized training in Public Health, Biostatistics, Behavioral Science, and Implementation Science during graduate, postdoc, and fellowship studies. Dr. John oversees a program of NIH-funded research focused on implementation of evidence-based HIV and STI prevention and reducing health disparities among sexual and gender minoritized people.
Title: Improving equitable implementation of evidence-based HIV/STI prevention among sexual and gender minoritized populations
Objectives:
Describe currently available and forthcoming evidence-based mechanisms for biomedical HIV and STI prevention.
Discuss strengths, limitations, and future directions for mHealth strategies to support biomedical HIV prevention.
Apply the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to describe multi-level barriers to biomedical HIV and STI prevention care engagement.
Nathalie Moise, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Nathalie Moise is an internist, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab) at the Center for Behavioral and Cardiovascular Health with training in epidemiology and implementation science. She has worked in health services research for more than 10 years and is PI/MPI of several federally funded grants (NIH, AHRQ, PCORI) leveraging hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs to test implementation and de-implementation strategies for promoting behavioral interventions in primary care and cardio-oncology settings, including MPI of AHRQ EQUIP Learning Health System Center and NIA Roybal Center grants. Dr. Moise has been the implementation science co-investigator/consultant for more than 20 funded grants, including core lead for an NIMHD P50 cardio-oncology center grant and has published extensively in the areas of behavioral health, patient engagement/adherence, implementation science and clinical inertia. She has served as faculty for the UCSF implementation science certificate course and NHLBI Research in Implementation Science for Equity summer program, Co-Director of the CTSA’s Implementation Science Initiative, is Associate Editor of Implementation Research and Practice and founding member of the American Heart Association’s Implementation Science Committee.
Borsika Rabin, PhD
Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Co-Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
UC San Diego
Dr. Rabin 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 an Implementation Science (IS) expert on a number of large NIH and VA Center grants and research projects including the VA San Diego Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health and the Quadruple Aim QUERI Program (Denver VA). Dr. Rabin has extensive expertise in the selection and operationalization of IS models and she is a national expert in the use of the RE-AIM framework and its contextually expanded counterpart, PRISM. Dr. Rabin has been a member of the national leadership team for RE-AIM for the past close to one decade, developed and refined advanced methodology for the use of RE-AIM and PRISM across diverse topic areas and settings, and developed training and conducted consultations on the operationalization of RE-AIM and PRISM for research proposals and ongoing projects. She serves as the lead RE-AIM expert for the recently funded VA Center for the Evaluation of Enterprise-Wide Initiatives and provides technical assistance, training, consultation for all VA Office of Rural Health funded projects that are mandated to use RE-AIM for evaluation.
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Director, Implementation Science Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health, Colombia University
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with expertise in implementation science, sustainability, health equity, and community engagement. She is an Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health where she serves as Deputy Chair for Faculty Development and Research Strategy. Additionally, she serves as Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core Resource at the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (CTSA); through the CTSA, she also leads and is Director of an Implementation Science Initiative focused on building research capacity for implementation science across the university. Dr. Shelton developed one of the first courses offered nationally in implementation science in public health; she has taught this course for over 10 years at Columbia and has been an invited speaker and core faculty for numerous implementation science mentoring and training programs globally, including NIH’s Training Institute for Dissemination & Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC), the Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2), and implementation science programs in Australia, Nigeria, Ireland, Mozambique, Thailand, and South Africa. Dr. Shelton has 15 years of experience leading mixed-methods, community-engaged research on advancing the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based interventions in community and clinical settings to address health inequities, particularly in the context of cancer prevention/control, with over 130 peer-reviewed publications. Her work has made contributions to health equity and sustainability in the field of implementation science and has been supported by numerous NIH institutions and foundations, including NIA, NCI, NIMHD, NCATs, and the American Cancer Society.
Stephanie Staras, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair of Faculty Development
Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics
Associate Director, Institute for Child Health Policy
Co-Lead, Cancer Control and Population Science Program
University of Florida
Dr. Stephanie A. S. Staras is a distinguished researcher specializing in the prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers. With a strong emphasis on implementation science, she is dedicated to advancing health equity in cancer prevention. Dr. Staras’ research focuses on enhancing clinical recommendations, fostering parental acceptance, and improving access to HPV vaccinations for adolescents throughout Florida.
As Principal Investigator, she has led multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded projects, securing a total of $8.5 million in federal funding through a series of R21, R37, R37 extension, and R01 grants. These significant, high-enrollment studies have been instrumental in achieving the UF Cancer Center's NCI designation, contributing 40% of UF's clinical trial accruals between 2021 and 2023. Dr. Staras' efforts exemplify a commitment to impactful research that not only advances scientific knowledge but also addresses critical public health challenges.
Cheryl Vamos, PhD.
Professor
Director, Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education
University of South Florida
Dr. Cheryl Vamos is an Associate Professor and a Fellow with the Chiles Center for Women, Children and Families. She is also a Core Faculty member of the Collaborative for Research Understanding Sexual Health (CRUSH). The overall goal of Dr. Vamos’ research is to facilitate the translation of maternal and child health (MCH) evidence into practice for patients, providers, and women at-large. Within the broad field of MCH, the majority of projects focus on women’s health, reproductive health and MCH oral health, and employ health literacy, implementation science, and technology approaches to ensure that women (and providers) have the knowledge, skills and resources needed to be empowered and make informed health decisions. Together, this research seeks to (1) identify the system-level factors influencing health behaviors/outcomes and (2) develop and test innovative solutions to improve women’s health.
Theresa received her PhD in immunology from UChicago and an MS in computer science from DePaul University. She is Associate Director for the Center for Health Information Partnerships, Chair of the Health and Biomedical Informatics Track in the Health Sciences Integrated PhD program and Director of the MS in Health and Biomedical Informatics. She has led studies funded by AHRQ to implement and assess quality improvement interventions in pragmatic clinical settings and by NIAMS, NICHD and Gilead Sciences to develop strategies to identify complex immune disease and cancer in electronic health record data to support population health management.
Nicole Werner, PhD
Associate Professor
Dean's Eminent Scholar
School of Public Health-Bloomington
Indiana University
Dr. Werner is a psychologist, systems thinker, and human-centered design evangelist committed to transforming the health journey through human-centered sociotechnical system design to improve the health and well-being of older and vulnerable populations and their care partners. Her research program applies systems engineering principles to conduct research aimed at the human-centered discovery, design, evaluation, and implementation of translation-ready technology interventions. This work has included developing innovative approaches to user-centered design in community settings; employing novel concepts of care distribution; and engaging end-user representatives such as older adults, care partners, and community resource providers as active members of the design team. Her research spans clinical and community settings to improve health for older adults and their care partners and children with medical complexity and their families, with a particular focus on people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and their care partners.
Steven A. John, PhD, MPH
Nathalie Moise, MD, MS
Borsika Rabin, PhD
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH
Stephanie Staras, Ph.D.
Theresa L Walunas, PhD