Part One: Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Part I (SMA)

 

CHAIRS: HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and HAMILTON, Alison B. (VA, UCLA) 

 

HEURTIN-ROBERTS, Suzanne (NCI, UMD) and FINLEY, Erin P. (VA) Anthropology and Implementation Science: Possibilities and Challenges 

 

HAMILTON, Alison, ZUCHOWSKI, Jessica, STOCKDALE, Susan, HUYNH, Alexis, and RUBENSTEIN, Lisa (VA, UCLA) Making Sense of VA’s Medical Home Model: Key Stakeholder Perceptions during Early Implementation 

 

MCCULLOUGH, Megan, SOLOMON, Jeffery, PETRAKIS, Beth Ann, and ROSE, Adam (VA) Middle Managers, Micro-Practices and Change: Examining the Dynamics between Implementation and Leadership in an Anticoagulation Care Improvement Initiative 

 

DISCUSSANT: GLASGOW, Russell (UC-Denver)

Applying Anthropology in Implementation Science to Improve Healthcare and Health, Parts I-II. A broad gap exists between health research findings and their real world implementation, which the interdisciplinary and still emerging field of implementation science (I.S.) seeks to bridge.  Applied anthropology has a strong role to play in the development of implementation science as both strive to solve human problems in dynamic, complex, real-world settings, in real time.  This panel presents several anthropologists’ work in implementation science as examples of what applied anthropology can offer.  We will discuss how anthropology can and does clearly strengthen the implementation of health innovations.  We will also consider some of the challenges met by implementation science as it matures.

 

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.