DESCRIPTION
This Keynote will focus on opportunities within implementation science to advance research on sustainability, with explicit consideration of how to do so with a focus on promoting health equity. Sustainability has been identified as one of the most important yet challenging translational research areas we face in implementation science. This presentation will highlight: 1) conceptual, measurement, and methodological issues and recommendations in studying sustainability; 2) multilevel factors that influence the sustainability of interventions across a range of diverse public health, community, and healthcare settings and populations; 3) frameworks, tools, and resources that are useful for guiding research in this area and planning for sustainability; and 4) applied examples and key opportunities to advance research on sustainability with explicit attention to the connections between sustainability and health equity.
PRESENTER(S)
Associate Professor
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with training in cancer and social epidemiology, and expertise in implementation science, sustainability, health equity, and community-based participatory research. She is Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she is Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core Resource at the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (CTSA), and is Director of a university-wide Implementation Science Initiative. Dr. Shelton has taught implementation science courses and trainings nationally and globally for nearly ten years, including TIDIRC, TIDIRH, and the Institute for Implementation Science Scholars. Dr. Shelton has 15 years of experience conducting mixed-methods research focused 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; her research program is funded by NIA, NCI, NIMHD and American Cancer Society.