Session 3: Implementation Science in Action: Evaluating Fidelity, Attitudes, and Costs to Improve Outcomes

Chair: LaShawn Glasgow, HCS DCC, Senior Director, Center for Program & Policy Evaluation to Advance Community Health, RTI

(45 minutes, 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 30 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes of Moderator Q&A)

Speakers

  • Louisa Gilbert, HCS NY MPI; Co-Director, SIG; Professor, CSSW
  • Dawn Goddard Eckrich, HCS NY, Associate Director, SIG; Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
  • Bruce Schackman, HCS NY; Director, Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH); Professor of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Gary Zarkin, HCS DCC; Distinguished Fellow, RTI

Overview of Presentation 3: The session will highlight the types of implementation data collected to deploy EBPs and how this data was utilized. It will include a description of landscape data, administrative data, and other data sources that coalitions used to inform their decisions. Presenters will discuss the different implementation strategies used in the study and the types of data collected to ensure implementation fidelity. Presenters will focus on health and racial inequities, providing examples from the coalitions’ deliberations. This session will also show how cost data was collected and shared.