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Steven A. John, PhD, MPHSteven A. John, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin

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Dr. Steven John (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Core Faculty member of the Center for AIDS Intervention Research, and Co-Director of the Prevention and Implementation Sciences Training Lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received formalized training in Public Health, Biostatistics, Behavioral Science, and Implementation Science during graduate, postdoc, and fellowship studies. Dr. John oversees a program of NIH-funded research focused on implementation of evidence-based HIV and STI prevention and reducing health disparities among sexual and gender minoritized people.

Title: Improving equitable implementation of evidence-based HIV/STI prevention among sexual and gender minoritized populations

Objectives:

  1. Describe currently available and forthcoming evidence-based mechanisms for biomedical HIV and STI prevention.
  2. Discuss strengths, limitations, and future directions for mHealth strategies to support biomedical HIV prevention.
  3. Apply the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to describe multi-level barriers to biomedical HIV and STI prevention care engagement.

Nathalie Moise, MD, MSNathalie Moise, MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Nathalie Moise is an internist, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Director of Implementation Science Research (The Im_Sci Lab) at the Center for Behavioral and Cardiovascular Health with training in epidemiology and implementation science. She has worked in health services research for more than 10 years and is PI/MPI of several federally funded grants (NIH, AHRQ, PCORI) leveraging hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial designs to test implementation and de-implementation strategies for promoting behavioral interventions in primary care and cardio-oncology settings, including MPI of AHRQ EQUIP Learning Health System Center and NIA Roybal Center grants. Dr. Moise has been the implementation science co-investigator/consultant for more than 20 funded grants, including core lead for an NIMHD P50 cardio-oncology center grant and has published extensively in the areas of behavioral health, patient engagement/adherence, implementation science and clinical inertia. She has served as faculty for the UCSF implementation science certificate course and NHLBI Research in Implementation Science for Equity summer program, Co-Director of the CTSA’s Implementation Science Initiative, is Associate Editor of Implementation Research and Practice and founding member of the American Heart Association’s Implementation Science Committee.

Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPHRachel Shelton, ScD, MPH

Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Director, Implementation Science Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health, Colombia University

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Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with expertise in implementation science, sustainability, health equity, and community engagement. She is an Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health where she serves as Deputy Chair for Faculty Development and Research Strategy. Additionally, she serves as Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core Resource at the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (CTSA); through the CTSA, she also leads and is Director of an Implementation Science Initiative focused on building research capacity for implementation science across the university. Dr. Shelton developed one of the first courses offered nationally in implementation science in public health; she has taught this course for over 10 years at Columbia and has been an invited speaker and core faculty for numerous implementation science mentoring and training programs globally, including NIH’s Training Institute for Dissemination & Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC), the Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2), and implementation science programs in Australia, Nigeria, Ireland, Mozambique, Thailand, and South Africa. Dr. Shelton has 15 years of experience leading mixed-methods, community-engaged research 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, with over 130 peer-reviewed publications. Her work has made contributions to health equity and sustainability in the field of implementation science and has been supported by numerous NIH institutions and foundations, including NIA, NCI, NIMHD, NCATs, and the American Cancer Society.

Stephanie Staras, Ph.D.Stephanie Staras, Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Chair of Faculty Development
Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics

Associate Director, Institute for Child Health Policy
Co-Lead, Cancer Control and Population Science Program
University of Florida

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Dr. Stephanie A. S. Staras is a distinguished researcher specializing in the prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers. With a strong emphasis on implementation science, she is dedicated to advancing health equity in cancer prevention. Dr. Staras’ research focuses on enhancing clinical recommendations, fostering parental acceptance, and improving access to HPV vaccinations for adolescents throughout Florida.

As Principal Investigator, she has led multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded projects, securing a total of $8.5 million in federal funding through a series of R21, R37, R37 extension, and R01 grants. These significant, high-enrollment studies have been instrumental in achieving the UF Cancer Center's NCI designation, contributing 40% of UF's clinical trial accruals between 2021 and 2023. Dr. Staras' efforts exemplify a commitment to impactful research that not only advances scientific knowledge but also addresses critical public health challenges.

Theresa L Walunas, PhDTheresa L Walunas, PhD

Associate Professor
Northwestern University

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Theresa received her PhD in immunology from UChicago and an MS in computer science from DePaul University. She is Associate Director for the Center for Health Information Partnerships, Chair of the Health and Biomedical Informatics Track in the Health Sciences Integrated PhD program and Director of the MS in Health and Biomedical Informatics. She has led studies funded by AHRQ to implement and assess quality improvement interventions in pragmatic clinical settings and by NIAMS, NICHD and Gilead Sciences to develop strategies to identify complex immune disease and cancer in electronic health record data to support population health management.

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