"Approaches to bridging community-engaged research and implementation science methods to advance public health practice"
This session highlights how community-engaged research and implementation science can be integrated to strengthen public health practice and advance health equity. Dr. Margaret Handley from the University of California, San Francisco will share insights from her work, highlighting strategies and implementation research methods for community engagement. Attendees will gain practical knowledge around relevant methods and real-world examples.
About the Presenter
Dr. Margaret Handley has been a Professor emerita of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco for over 20 years and was trained as an epidemiologist in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She co-developed and co-directed of the Implementation Science Training program at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) for over 10 years, and recently was director of the PRISE Center, focusing on Partnerships in Research in Implementation Science to advance health Equity. Her research focuses on bridging the fields of primary care, public health, and health communication for improving health outcomes and equity in healthcare access with a focus on vulnerable populations. Her methodological expertise spans intervention development, community collaboration and implementation designs in real-world settings. She has a strong track record of independent and collaborative research funding related to community-engaged research and research with vulnerable populations, including, recently, in regards to environmental health and homelessness. She is committed to implementation science skill-building across a wide range of settings, including under-resourced settings, degree-granting programs, and nationally focused immersion and distance training for junior faculty. In her capacity as Co-Principal Investigator on an NIH/NHLBI R25 RUCSF Research in Implementation Sciences for Engagement (RISE), she helps train early career professors in Implementation Science methods who have expanded the possibilities of what Implementation Science can do across a wide range of areas of unmet health needs.