Center Director: Linda M. Collins
Intervention optimization is an emerging scientific field. In this field ideas from behavioral science, engineering, public health, quantitative and qualitative methods, economics, and decision science are integrated to produce innovative approaches for empirical development and optimization of interventions.
All types of interventions can be optimized, including behavioral, biobehavioral, biomedical, social-structural, and educational interventions.
By intervention optimization, we mean the process of arriving at intervention EASE. Intervention EASE is a strategic balance of Effectiveness, Affordability, Scalability, and Efficiency. Intervention EASE is usually achieved via an approach called the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST).