UW BIRCH Methods Core and Implementation Science Program Seminar
Posted: 10/16/2022 (Demography News)
UW Birch is hosting Dr. Linda Collins for a talk entitled “Achieving intervention EASE: The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST)”. Dr. Collins is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Global Public Health, New York University.
In this presentation, Dr. Collins will briefly introduce an expanded methodological framework for developing, optimizing, and evaluating behavioral and biobehavioral interventions. This framework, called the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), is a principled approach that integrates ideas from behavioral science, engineering, multivariate statistics, health economics, and decision science. MOST enables the investigator to balance intervention effectiveness, affordability, scalability, and efficiency to achieve intervention EASE. Using MOST, behavioral and biobehavioral interventions can be optimized to meet an objective chosen by the investigator. The objective may be any reasonable goal, such as an intervention that offers the best expected outcome achievable without exceeding a specified upper limit on implementation cost or time. MOST relies heavily on resource management by strategic choice of highly efficient experimental designs. Recent advances include an approach to identifying value-efficient interventions. Dr. Collins proposes that MOST offers several benefits, including more rapid long-run improvement of interventions, without requiring a dramatic increase in research resources.
You can register here.
Time: Tuesday, October 25th, 10:00-11:30 PDT
Deadline: 10/25/2022
Location: Hans Rosling Center Room 101 and Zoom