How can we tell if an intervention is effective and ready for scale-up without examining its implementation? Do we need to intervene or just enhance implementation of something already in place? Are our interventions unintentionally exacerbating health disparities?

Dr. Gabriella McLoughlin will address these questions and highlight how dissemination and implementation (D&I) science approaches can be used to ground public health interventions, with some specific examples pertaining to school and community-based contexts. Finally, a proposed line of work will be presented to address health disparities through innovative policy D&I approaches grounded in stakeholder needs.

Dr. McLoughlin is an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology in the College of Public Health at Temple University. She received a master's and doctoral degree in kinesiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, leading projects on childhood obesity prevention and school wellness programming. Current applications of implementation science reflect a variety of topics pertaining to health disparities in cancer prevention, addressing food insecurity in underserved communities, school health policy implementation, and community approaches to obesity prevention more broadly.

Connect via Zoom on Oct. 19: https://temple.zoom.us/j/97124328187