This event is hosted by the NYU GPH Global Center for Implementation Science (GCIS)
Please join us for a special presentation on sustainability and health equity in implementation science. The featured presenter is Dr. Rachel Shelton who joins us from Columbia University.
About the Speaker:
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH is a social and behavioral scientist with training in cancer and social epidemiology, and expertise in implementation science, sustainability, health equity, and community-based participatory research. She is an Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, where she is also Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core Resource at the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and helps lead a new university-wide initiative on Implementation Science at Columbia. Dr. Shelton is a co-author of the textbook on Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health. She has 15 years of experience conducting mixed-methods research to advance the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based interventions in community and clinical settings to address health inequities. She has also published extensively on social and contextual factors that influence disparities in cancer and other chronic diseases among Black and Latino populations, including social networks, medical mistrust, racial discrimination, and racism. Dr. Shelton has been consecutively funded as Principal Investigator for over 10 years, with funding through American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, NCATS, and National Institute on Aging (NIA). This includes an active NIA-funded R01 focused on structural factors (e.g., racial discrimination, financial hardship) and social resources related to racial inequities in epigenetic aging.
To receive an invite to this zoom presentation, please send an email request to research.development@nyu.edu. This event is only open to PhD students, postdocs and faculty.