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A growing list of public health issues have been characterized as “wicked” problems with the call for new approaches to identifying system leverage points and ways to bring solutions to scale to improve population health. This has led to growing interest in complexity or systems science approaches to implementation science, especially as a way to advance health equity. This talk provides a brief overview of the intersection of implementation science and complexity science, critically reviews some of the trends in emerging research and interest in systems science, more recent interest in design thinking, and argues for a more focused program of design science research for advancing social justice and public health.
About this Lecture: User-Centered Design in Implementation Research.
In this presentation, Dr. Emily Haines will discuss potential applications of user-centered design in implementation research. Following a brief overview of the field of implementation science, she will describe how user-centered design can be leveraged to harmonize interventions, the contexts in which they are implemented, and the strategies used to facilitate their implementation. In particular, she will use her dissertation research on improving care coordination for adolescents and young adults with cancer to highlight selected methods from user-centered design including usability testing, ethnographic contextual inquiry, and prototyping methods.
About the speaker:
Emily Haines is a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Wake Forest School of Medicine’s Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program. She received her PhD from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she studied implementation and organization science. Topically, Dr. Haines’ research focuses on improving cancer care coordination, particularly for adolescents and young adults. Methodologically, she is interested in the application of user-centered design in implementation research to improve fit between interventions and the contexts in which they will be implemented. Other research interests include the use of ethnographic methods and the use of organizational theory in implementation science.
About the series:
Co-hosted by the Center for Systems and Community Design of the CUNY School of Public Health and the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center, the Systems Change Lecture Series is a monthly lecture and workshop series that creates space for distinguished scholars, practitioners, and entrepreneurs across a broad range of sectors to share the ways in which they work at the forefront of incorporating systems and design thinking into their respective practices.
