Selecting, Adapting, Combining, and Using a Framework for your Pragmatic Research

RUSSELL GLASGOW, PhD

Research Professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Colorado
Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Program of the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcome Research and Delivery Science.
Russell E. Glasgow, PhD, is Research Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Program of the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcome Research and Delivery Science there. His research focuses on issues of designing for implementation and sustainability, understanding and assessing adaptations to programs, and development and evaluation of pragmatic models and measures. Russell is a behavioral scientist who specializes in the development and assessment of chronic illness prevention and self-management programs.

Russell has 15 years of experience in implementation science and over 25 years of experience in intervention and health outcomes research. He has over 450 peer reviewed publications, most of them related to applied research issues, evaluating and enhancing generalizability of research, pragmatic research methods and frameworks, and ways to enhance implementation and dissemination.

ROSS BROWNSON, PhD

Lipstein Distinguished Professor, Washington University St. Louis
Ross C. Brownson, PhD, is the Lipstein Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis. He directs the CDC-supported Prevention Research Center and co-directs the Washington University Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control (supported by the NCI). Dr. Brownson studies the translation of evidence to public health practice and policy, with a content focus on environmental and policy determinants of chronic diseases. Dr. Brownson is the author of 15 books and over 550 peer-reviewed articles. He has received numerous awards for his work. Among these, he is the recipient of the American Public Health Associationโ€™s (APHA) Abraham Lilienfeld Award for excellence in teaching and mentoring (2003) and the APHA Award for Excellence (2016). Dr. Brownson is a former president of the American College of Epidemiology and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors.

AMY KILBOURNE, PhD MPH

Director, VA Quality Enhancement Research Institute (QUERI)
Dr. Kilbourne is Director of the Quality Enhancement Research initiative (QUERI) in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Professor of Learning Health Sciences at University of Michigan. Her goal is to improve public health outcomes through implementation strategies that help providers scale up and spread effective innovations in real-world settings

BORSIKA RABIN, PhD, MPH, PharmD

Assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Borsika Rabin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego where she also serves as the co-Director of the UC San Diego D&I Science Center. Dr. Rabin serves as the co-lead of the Implementation Core for the Triple Aim QUERI Program for Denver VA and an Implementation Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Stress and Mental Health at the San Diego VA. She is a member of the ACCORDS Dissemination and Implementation Science Program at the University of Colorado. Her research focuses on dissemination and implementation (D&I) of evidence-based interventions, adaptations, measurement, and the evaluation and development of interactive, web-based interventions and tools with a special emphasis on tools that can support planning for D&I interventions. She designed and developed a number of web-based resources including the D&I Models in Research and Practice (www.dissemination-implementation.org) websites.

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