Current Projects

The purpose of the AHEAD study is to understand how to leverage structures and processes of Academic Health Department (AHD) partnerships to facilitate implementation of cancer related evidence-based programs and policies.

The purpose is to increase the use of proven strategies among local health departments (LHDs) to improve community health and reduce the burden of chronic diseases.

The purpose of BRIC is to promote healthy living and reduce social isolation during the COVID pandemic.

This project developed a website (the D4DS planner) that supports researchers and practitioners in learning about and applying the methods and principles of designing for dissemination and sustainability.  

The project focuses on adapting and disseminating the Children’s Oncology Guidelines (COG) to improve cancer survivorship worldwide.

This project aims to understand the common barriers and facilitators to utilizing digital health tools within clinical care settings to inform future strategies to improve digital health implementation and sustainment.  

The Prevention Research Center at Washington in St. Louis (PRC at WashU) is committed to passing on valuable tools and information about evidence based public health (EBPH) to public health practitioners across the United States and the world. The PRC at WashU offers training in EBPH which focuses on nine specific skills to improve public health practice. Through presentations, practice exercises, and case studies, training takes a "hands-on" approach and emphasizes information that is readily available to busy practitioners.

Heartland Moves is designed to increase physical activity among rural residents to decrease the burden of cancer. The project aims to use input and currently available assets from rural communities to accomplish project goals.

The purpose of our study is to increase the capacity for sustainability among evidence-based tobacco control (TC) programs. Sustainability is an important next step in dissemination and implementation research. In order for a population to obtain the benefits of an implemented evidence-based intervention, it must be sustained over time. Sustaining evidence-based TC programs will improve quality of life and reduce the massive healthcare costs incurred by tobacco-related illness.

The purpose is to develop and disseminate approaches that will increase the use of proven policies at the local-level to reduce obesity disparities and promote health equity.

The purpose of Public Health in ACTION (Appropriate Continuation of Tested Interventions) is to identity the extent to which cancer control mis-implementation occurs within health departments at the state level. Misimplementation refers to ending effective programs and policies or continuing ineffective ones. Greater attention to mis-implementation should lead to use of effective interventions and more efficient expenditure of resources, which in the long term, will lead to positive cancer outcomes.

This project aims to support primary care and community health clinics design Assistance strategies that will address identified social needs that are yielding barriers for their patients to receive screening and preventive care (e.g., those lacking transportation may be unable to go to recommended colonoscopy appointments).

The Alliance is a collaboration of major partners that provides direct resources in the St. Louis region. The purpose of this project is to design, test, and evaluate innovative approaches to optimize health status and advance racial equality. These approaches include targeting barriers to enrollment and participation to the CDC lifestyle change program, and promoting health system linkages to increase screening among patients and communication between different health providers.

Using digital health to improve health behavior counseling for overweight and obese patients in rural Southeast Missouri.