LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Participants will describe contextual factors related to implementation at multiple levels of the socioecological framework.
- Participants will describe multiple frameworks incorporating multilevel contextual factors.
- Participants will use one or more frameworks to identify relevant multilevel contextual factors in a case example of implementing an evidence-based intervention.
PRESENTER(S)
Christina Studts, PhD, MSPH, LCSW
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado
Christina Studts, PhD, MSPH, LCSW is an Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and an implementation scientist with the ACCORDS Dissemination & Implementation Science Program. Her training background is in social work and public health, and her mixed methods research focuses on the systematic adaptation and implementation of evidence-based health promotion interventions with underserved populations--particularly to increase access to parenting interventions in low-resource contexts. In addition to leading her own program of community-engaged research, Dr. Studts serves as an implementation scientist on teams addressing a variety of topical areas, including lung cancer screening, nutrition and physical activity practices in child care settings, sexual risk reduction, diagnostic testing after failed newborn hearing screens, and others. She co-teaches courses on D&I research in health and on context and adaptation in the D&I Science Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Colorado.