Dr. Rachel Shelton

The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Public Health is now online. Take a look - arevie.ws/42DiDAg @drrachelshelton.bsky.social

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities (Gift Article) The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

Among the many articles on the ongoing destruction of academia and science 🧪 in the US, this is one of the most chilling..

"It is an attack on the conditions that allow free thought to exist.. we will feel its consequences for decades"

The end of the university as we know it

@meghanor.bsky.social

Inside the Collapse at the NIH Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

This new Atlantic piece on the timeline of the NIH shutdown reads like the script to a new Soderbergh film. It is so, so dark and perfectly captures the evil and intentional chaos behind everything we've experienced over the last month www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

I spend a lot of time thinking about #Participatory approaches to #ImpSci (and life!). Colleagues and I pulled together quotes & ideas that offer alternative entry points for us. What has prompted "aha" moments for others in this space? Open access at doi.org/10.1146/annu...

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America.

Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience.

www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Happening today at 12 pm EST virtually! #Impsci seminar series with Dr. JD Smith presenting on Roll-out designs-- reach out to me if interested

Court Orders CDC, FDA to Restore Scrubbed Webpages, Data Judge agreed to temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for America advocacy group

Breaking: Court Orders CDC, FDA to Restore Scrubbed Webpages, Data

Thank you, @drsforamerica.bsky.social, for standing up for facts, objectivity, and good care for our patients.
#MedSky #health #healthcare #medicine #publichealth

www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Very good source to understand indirect costs by Sally Rockey, former Deputy Director for Extramural Activities at NIH.

Very thorough and clear.

If you want to understand indirect costs or have family or friends who are pestering you to explain IDC, send them this...

www.aau.edu/key-issues/i...

This is a key point, and why international applicants can only claim 8% indirect costs on NIH grants - these funders also support the wider US scientific research and innovation system.

If you wanted to actively make US less competitive at science, this is exactly sort of policy that would do it:

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

(PDF) PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 3RD EDITION PDF | There is growing evidence that community engagement is central to successful and widespread adoption, implementation, sustainability, and scale-up... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

New piece on #CommunityEngagement + #ImpSci to advance health equity in the CDC's Principles of Community Engagement (3rd ed). It's been taken down from the site, but you can get it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
W/ @drrachelshelton.bsky.social @padsul.bsky.social @anabaumann.bsky.social

Effects of an Organizational Implementation Strategy on Sustainment of Measurement-Based Care in Community Mental Health | Psychiatric Services Objective: Little is known about how to sustain evidence-based interventions with fidelity in community mental health settings. Phase 1 of the Working to Implement and Sustain Digital Outcome Measures...

See our latest paper testing the Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) strategy. Measurement based care fidelity was significantly higher at LOCI sites compared to control sites in the EPIS framework sustainment phase. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

The CDC has shuttered its webpages for supporting LGBTQ+ youth in schools, Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth, and Creating Safe Schools for LGBTQ+ Youth

www.cdc.gov/healthy-yout...

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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Excited to learn from Dr. Delivette Castor on Friday about The Payback Framework to Assess the Impact of Imp Sci, a framework we are using in our U54 Center! Reach out to me if you are interested in joining this virtual seminar through our #impsci seminar at Irving Institute CTSA @ColumbiaMed

Congrats to Dr. Alejandra Paniagua-Avila for leading this excellent #impsci review of core interventions and implementation strategies for integrated programs for addressing mental illnesses across six countries in Latin America. Such important work & happy to be part of @ColumbiaMSPH

Anecdotes impact medical decisions even when presented with statistical information or decision aids - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications People are inundated with popular press reports about medical research concerning what is healthy, get advice from doctors, and hear personal anecdotes. How do people integrate conflicting anecdotal a...

Anecdotes – especially scary ones – play a BIG role in the spread of health misinformation.

Always be skeptical when testimonials are used as primary source!

Study: Anecdotes impact medical decisions even when presented with statistical information / decision aids link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research

Samantha Majic & Melissa Ditmore

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Building capacity in dissemination and implementation research: the presence and impact of advice networks - Implementation Science Background As dissemination and implementation (D&I) research increases, we must continue to expand training capacity and research networks. Documenting, understanding, and enhancing advice networks i...

One of the best parts of #impsci is the generosity of mentors. A big part of my work now is mentoring & capacity-building in the field so I am so honored to be included in this list of D&I science advice givers nationally.Interesting SNA piece! implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Musk and Ramaswamy have already identified $516 billion in government savings. It includes DRAMATIC CUTS to Veterans Affairs health care, the National Institutes of Health, Head Start, the FBI, and many other vital programs.

Join us for our upcoming virtual Columbia University/CTSA Implementation Science Seminar series with Dr. Arianna Means on application of the CFIR framework globally. This Friday, Dec. 6th at 12 pm EST. Message me if interested!

Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target

Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...

⭐Really excited for this!
Join us this Monday 12/2 at 11a.m. ET for the Health Equity Research Outreach (HERO) Lecture Series: Centering Health Equity in #Dissemination and #Implementation Research. Speaker include @rsbeidas.bsky.social Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe and I. www.nhlbi.nih.gov/events/2024/...

Building capacity in dissemination and implementation research: the presence and impact of advice networks - Implementation Science Background As dissemination and implementation (D&I) research increases, we must continue to expand training capacity and research networks. Documenting, understanding, and enhancing advice networks i...

Building capacity in dissemination and implementation research: the presence and impact of advice networks #impsci

implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

All - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

Looking to find your tribe here? Try this link. Should take you to a searchable starter pack database.

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Advancing scaling science in health and social care: a scoping review and appraisal of scaling frameworks - BMC Health Services Research Background Scaling is typically discussed as a way to amplify or expand a health innovation. However, there is limited knowledge about the specific techniques that can enhance access to or improve the...

Advancing scaling science in health and social care: a scoping review and appraisal of scaling frameworks

Anita Kothari, Ian Graham et al.

bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#ImpSci

😎Cool free NIH event: “Adapting Evidence-Based Mind and Body Interventions: Why, When, and How” Feb 12-13, 2025 in person and online. Will feature perspectives of many different fields. Registration is required. #ABCT2024 #ImpSci www.eventbrite.com/e/adapting-e...

Proud of our Symposium on #ImpSci & Health Equity that Dr. Ross Brownson & I led as Associate Editors of ARPH, open access on Annual Reviews. Excellent pieces on System Sci & Imp Sci, Global Health Equity, Participatory Imp Sci, Adaptive Designs, Env Justice: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ever feel like practitioners and academics are talking past each other when it comes to evidence-based interventions? Unpacking differing lenses and conceptual maps can offer points for alignment.

Our open access piece in TBM: academic.oup.com/tbm/advance-...

#ImplementationScience #CBOs