Posts by Saman
Adventures in Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness trials: Integrating smoking cessation treatment into healthcare settings
Sandra Japuntich, PhD | October 28, 2025 : Hybrid implementation-effectiveness trials hold tremendous promise to speed implementation by collecting data necessary for implementation whilst conducting effectiveness data. This presentation will review hybrid clinical trial design and present outcomes from two hybrid implementation-effectiveness trials of smoking cessation treatments. Insights and experiences will be shared about the…
Read MoreEvaluating the Reliability of Measures of Organizational Characteristics: Issues and Recommendations
Alex Sox-Harris, PhD, Kenneth Nieser, PhD | September 23, 2025 : Measures of organizational characteristics, such as implementation climate, organizational climate, and organizational culture play diverse roles in implementation studies. These characteristics can be conceptualized as contextual determinants of quality, moderators or mediators of implementation strategy effectiveness, or even implementation outcomes. It is therefore essential…
Read MoreFoundations for Improving Perinatal Mental Health Care Through A Statewide Birthing Hospital Quality Improvement Collaborative
Patricia Lee King, PhD, MSW | September 16, 2025 : Mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, are a leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths. One in five mothers experience depression or anxiety during pregnancy or postpartum and less than 10% receive adequate treatment. The Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ILPQC) facilitates collaborative learning opportunities, rapid-response data…
Read MoreHow Implementation Science Can Be Used To Support Change Efforts
Julia Moore, PhD | September 9, 2025: This workshop introduces the principles of implementation science and explores how they can help to plan, execute, and sustain change initiatives. Participants will learn practical approaches to bridge the gap between research and practice, overcome common barriers to change, and apply evidence-informed approaches to change initiatives.
Read MoreElena Rosenberg-Carlson, MPH
Elena Rosenberg-Carlson, MPH, is a Research Scientist and Project Director for the Stagewise Implementation to Target – Medications for Addiction Treatment (SITT-MAT) study at Stanford CDI. She has significant experience managing and supporting implementation research and capacity-building initiatives in collaboration with academic, public health, and community partners, most recently as part of the UCLA Center…
Read MoreUnderstanding and Applying the HIV Self-Test Program Preferences of Black and Latino Sexual and Gender Minorities in the Southern United States: An Online Discrete Choice Experiment with Patients and CFIR Interviews with Providers
John Guigayoma, PhD | April 29, 2025 : Black and Latino sexual and gender minorities in the Southern United States have experienced the greatest burden of HIV for the past 25 years. HIV self-testing is an effective strategy to identify individuals living with undiagnosed HIV, but little implementation research is known about which program characteristics…
Read MoreFrom glitter to gold: Recommendations for effective dashboards from design through sustainment
Fernanda Sequeira Rossi, PhD | May 6, 2025: Dashboards—tools that compile and summarize key performance data—have become increasingly utilized for supporting data organization and decision-making processes across various fields, such as business, economics, healthcare, and policy. The dashboard’s impact is dependent on its use by the individuals for whom it was designed. Yet, few studies…
Read MoreModel-Driven Decision Support: A Community-Based Meta-Implementation Strategy to Predict Population Impact.
Purpose: Standard tools for public health decision making such as data dashboards, trial repositories, and intervention briefs may be necessary but insufficient for guiding community leaders in optimizing local public health strategy. Predictive modeling decision support tools may be the missing link that allows community level decision makers to confidently direct funding and other resources…
Read MoreOverdose Deaths Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a US County
Globally, overdose deaths increased near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which created availability and access barriers to addiction and social services. Especially in times of a crisis like a pandemic, local exposures, service availability and access, and system responses have major influence on people who use drugs. For policy makers to be effective, an…
Read MoreContingency Management Needs Implementation Science
The gap between the evidence for contingency management (CM) and patients’ ability to access it is so dire that, in Fall of 2021, the New York Times ran an article titled, ‘This addiction treatment works. Why is it so underused?’ The article elucidated the myriad of barriers that limit widespread access to CM in the…
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