About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington (UW). I am co-Director of implementation science in the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh) and Associate Director of the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Implementation Science Core. Much of my work is focused on improving the delivery of evidence based interventions affecting child survival, growth, and wellbeing.
My area of expertise is mixed-methods research, applying and integrating quantitative and qualitative methods to expand our understanding of individual behavior or program implementation. In partnership with collaborators based in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs), I co-lead multiple hybrid clinical-implementation studies that integrate implementation and clinical outcomes. My primary area of interest is designing pragmatic implementation interventions that are driven by the experiences and interests of health workers that can be performed in collaboration with clinical research/services and public health programs to generate the evidence needed to inform innovation, drive policy, or improve the translation of clinical evidence into practice.
I teach the online Fundamentals of Implementation Science course, the School of Public Health’s required course on qualitative and mixed methods for master’s students, and co-direct the UW summer Implementation Science Institute in Global Health. Across these courses, I have the privilege of providing introductory training on implementation science and mixed methods to over 1,000 trainees, health workers, and policy makers around the world each year.