This event is hosted by the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research.
Presented by Melody Goodman, Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at NYU GPH.
Stakeholder engagement is a crucial part of participatory public health research, yet the measurement of stakeholder engagement in research is varied, inconsistent, and not methodologically sound. As the level of stakeholder engagement across studies can vary greatly from minimal engagement to fully collaborative partnerships, there is a need for a comprehensively validated quantitative measure of stakeholder engagement in research. We use stakeholder-engaged research approaches and a mixed-methods (qualitative/quantitative) study design to validate a measure to assess the level of stakeholder engagement in research, the research engagement survey tool (REST). Emerging data suggest REST is a valid measure that could potentially assess associations between research outcomes and stakeholder engagement. A 9-item condensed version of REST shows potential to decrease partner burden when measuring stakeholder engagement.
Melody Goodman received her BS summa cum laude in applied mathematics-statistics and economics (double major) from Stony Brook University. She received her MS in biostatistics from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and her PhD from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University with minors in theoretical statistics and the social determinants of health disparities. She is the Associate Dean for Research and Associate Professor of Biostatistics, in the School of Global Public Health at New York University.
The National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Long Island Community Foundation, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure have funded her work. She has over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and two books (2018 Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group): 1) Public Health Research Methods for Partnerships and Practice and 2) Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Research. Dr. Goodman is a biostatistician and research methodologist with a large statistical toolbox. Her research interest is on identifying origins of health disparities and developing, as necessary, evidence-based primary prevention strategies to reduce these health disparities.