Overview
- Keynote: Professor Chloe Teasdale
- Speaker: N/A
- Networking
Conference Summary
Please go here for the actual event (requires registration). The SPH Epi/Bios Conference is a forum for students, staff, alumni, faculty, and other interested attendees to learn about recent research in the CUNY community, talk to representatives of the department, school, and related institutes, and meet each other in random 1:1 networking using a full online conference platform. Make sure to register below, and contact us if you’re interested in organizing, contributing, or doing peer review for future events.
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Program Details
Implementation research and program evaluation: Examples from the field
What is implementation science and how does it help us understand what works for improving public health? Dr. Chloe Teasdale, PhD, MPH, will give an overview of implementation science and describe examples from her own work of program evaluations and implementation research conducted in Eswatini, Kenya and Mozambique. The talk will include a description of how we can move from evidence to action, as well as how to evaluate public health interventions in resource limited settings and challenges of this work.
Chloe Teasdale, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
The focus of her work is on evaluating the implementation of HIV care and treatment programs with a specific interest in assessing outcomes of children, adolescents and pregnant women living with HIV in resource limited settings. Prior to completing her PhD, she worked in South Africa overseeing monitoring and evaluation for mothers2mothers, a regional public health organization focused on reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV through peer support and education. This formative experience in public health practice working with healthcare providers and mothers across seven African countries fueled her passion to improve health services for women and children around the world and continues to inform her approach to research. A major focus of Dr. Teasdale’s work has been using routinely collected medical record data from HIV care and treatment service sites to examine patient outcomes. She has designed and led studies examining the impact of targeted service interventions for children, adolescents and pregnant women, including a prospective cohort study of virologic suppression after ART initiation in South African children living with HIV and an evaluation of a novel approach to retaining pregnant and breastfeeding adolescent and young women living with HIV in Kenya.
