Successful Implementation May Be More About Activation Than Transfer
Location: Online
In busy healthcare settings, new evidence-based programs often struggle to gain traction. Is it time to rethink the traditional “pipeline” approach and instead use systems science to understand how problems and solutions are sustained within real-world contexts?
Join us for our November Implementation Science Academy webinar, where Emeritus Professor Penny Hawe will explore how systems thinking brings “background” factors into “foreground” focus. Professor Hawe will discuss how tools like ethnographic methods, narrative analysis, network analysis, and causal loop diagrams can help researchers and practitioners understand local dynamics and leverage them for positive change.
About the Speaker
Penny Hawe is an Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics in the Sydney School of Public Health. She started her academic career at The University of Sydney. From 2000 to 2010 she was the Markin Chair in Health and Society at the University of Calgary where she created a large-scale program of work on the difference that complex systems thinking makes to the theory, methods, ethics and economics of population-level preventive interventions. In 2013 she returned to the University of Sydney part time, bringing a focus on system thinking to the establishment of the NHMRC Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (now part of the Sax Institute). She continues to advise on projects in the UK and US.
The Implementation Science Academy is presenting webinars each month throughout 2024. The Implementation Science webinar series aims to support researchers, clinicians and consumers to develop an understanding of how to weave implementation science into your research. Each webinar will focus on a topic relevant to implementation science and include a practical case study from an academic, consumer or clinician researcher.