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Online registration is now open March 4, 2022.
The Society for Prevention Research provides training opportunities in prevention science during pre-conference workshops scheduled for Tuesday, May 31, 2022. All workshops require registration.
Pre-Conference Workshop Registration:
- Attendee registration for the May 31, 2022 Pre-Conference Workshops is a separate registration fee.
- The pre-conference workshop registration includes electronic workshop handouts and morning and afternoon coffee breaks.
- Registration rates for PC Workshops I – III are discounted by approx. 75%. Funding for the discounted rate is underwritten by the NIH, Office of Disease Prevention
- Registration for PC Workshop V is free.
- PC Workshop I: (full day), 8:30 am – 5:30 pm: Introduction to Time-Varying Mediation Analysis with Application to Prevention Research, (To register, select Time-Varying)
- PC Workshop II: (full day), 8:30 am – 5:30 pm: Making the #MOST of Implementation Science, (To register, select #MOST)
- PC Workshop III: (full day), 8:30 am – 5:30 pm: Introduction to Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Designs for Prevention Research (To register, select Hybrid)
- PC Workshop IV (half day), 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Beyond an h-index, how can we know if prevention science is used in policy or practice? (To register, select h-index)
- PC Workshop V (half day), 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Advancing Equitable Dissemination and Implementation Science through IES Research, (To register, select IES). This workshop is presented by Institute of Education Science (IES), U.S. DOE.
To be eligible for member registration rates, 2022 membership dues must be current at the time you register. You may join/renew your membership AND register for the conference at the same time.
Pre-Conference Workshop I (full-day)
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Introduction to Time-Varying Mediation Analysis with Application to Prevention Research (To register select: Time-Varying)
Underwritten by: NIH/Office of Disease Prevention
Organizers and Presenter:
- Donna L. Coffman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Temple University
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participants to time-varying mediation effects (i.e., functional mediation) and methods for estimating these effects using R.
Learning Objectives: Participants will learn what questions may be answered using time-varying mediation analysis. Participants will also learn how they may implement time-varying mediation models in R and interpret the results.
Target Audience: Materials provided: Attendees will be provided with the slides and the code used to fit the models to an example data set that they may then modify for their own analysis.
Pre-Conference Workshop II (full-day)
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Making the #MOST of Implementation Science (To register select: #MOST)
Underwritten by: NIH/Office of Disease Prevention
Organizer and Presenter:
- Kate Guastaferro, Ph.D., MPH, Pennsylvania State University
Description: The purpose of this workshop is to increase uptake of effective behavioral interventions, there has been a call for optimizing our, often costly and burdensome, multicomponent interventions in recent years. One framework for doing this is the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), an innovative, engineering-inspired framework which emphasizes careful management of research resources and ongoing improvement of a product. The goal of MOST is to empirically identify an intervention that strategically balances effectiveness with affordability, scalability, and efficiency via an optimization trial, a highly rigorous experiment. But an effective intervention is only as good as its implementation and dissemination strategy. What if we used MOST to optimize aspects of implementation science?
Pre-Conference Workshop III (full-day)
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Introduction to Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Designs for Prevention Research (To register, select Hybrid)
Underwritten by: NIH/Office of Disease Prevention
Organizer and Presenter:
- Justin D. (J.D.) Smith, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Utah, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
Presenters:
- Dennis H. Li, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Sara J. Landes, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Description: This workshop will introduce prevention scientists to hybrid effectiveness-implementation designs. First, we will discuss the concept of “hybrid designs,” which combine elements of research on preventive effectiveness and implementation effectiveness. We will describe the rationale for using a hybrid design and describe Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 variations:
- Type 1: Explore implementability of an intervention while testing its effectiveness
- Type 2: Test implementation strategies during effectiveness trials (simultaneous look at both)
- Type 3: Test implementation strategies while also documenting preventive intervention outcomes (evaluating them as they relate to uptake and fidelity)
We will also review trends in hybrid design use and newer thinking on specification, measurement, and reporting. New to this workshop is an updated typology for each type, which was recently developed to assist in the specification of hybrid designs and address long- standing misconceptions. An accompanying interactive tool will be presented. Attendees will also learn the research questions and potential research designs (e.g., cluster randomized trial, factorial design) germane to each hybrid type. The Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM) will be used during the workshop to illustrate different hybrid study designs and for attendees to work on their own potential hybrid design in small groups.
Pre-Conference Workshop IV (half-day)
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Beyond an h-index, how can we know if prevention science is used in policy or practice? (To register, select h-index)
Organizer and Presenter:
- Lauren Supplee, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer, William T. Grant Foundation
Presenters:
- Vivian Tseng, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, William T. Grant Foundation
- Drew Gitomer, Ph.D., Professor, Rutgers University
Description:
- Attendees will understand the conditions that make it more likely research is used in policy and practice
- Attendees will evaluate different methods and measures available to study how and under what conditions research is used
- Attendees will understand how to design research to study the use of research
Pre-Conference Workshop V (half-day)
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Advancing Equitable Dissemination and Implementation Science through IES Research (To register select: IES)
Presented by Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
- Organizers and Presenter:
Emily J. Doolittle, Ph.D., Team Lead for Social Behavioral Research in the National Center for Education Research at the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
Description: This workshop will provide instruction and advice on writing a successful grant application to IES’ Education Research Grant Program (ALN 84.305A) and Special Education Research Grant Program (ALN 84.324A). These programs contain unique features that are intended to tackle the challenge of adopting, implementing and sustaining evidence-based education interventions and to better understand what works for whom under what conditions. IES is best known for an emphasis on rigorous, high-quality education research with strong internal validity. IES also has a strong emphasis on external validity to address the diverse needs of educators and students in the United States.