The Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center (EPISCenter) is sponsoring a Translational Research Reading Group series this semester. Translational Research represents the study of processes, facilitators, and barriers to moving efficacious prevention and intervention programs and practices to widespread adoption, with the ultimate goal of achieving broad public health improvement. Faculty and graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend. We meet on the first Friday of every month from noon-1pm in the Living Center in Henderson Building. Feel free to bring your lunch and to invite others!
This semester we will meet on:
Sept 2nd, EPISCenter Conference Room (206 S. Towers Building)
Oct 7th, Living Center, Henderson Building
Nov 4th, EPISCenter Conference Room (206 S. Towers Building)
Dec 2nd, Living Center, Henderson Building
For our first meeting next Friday, Sept 2nd, we will be discussing two short articles that present some big picture questions in the field of translational research -- the first by Drolet & Lorenzi presents a conceptual model of a "translational continuum" and the second by Robert Granger (the president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) discusses issues around the evidence-based program "scaling-up movement." If you are interested in receiving our emails and/or would like copies of the articles we will be discussing, please contact Brittany Rhoades at blr162@psu.edu.