Please Note: Registration for this webinar will close at 10am ET, on April 29th. A link for the event will be sent to attendees approximately one (1) hour prior to the start of the event.
This event is fully sponsored by RUSH and registration is complimentary for everyone.
Applied anthropology is a limited label for a broad and varied range of many kinds of fascinating anthropological careers. This talk, hosted by the Research on U.S. Healthcare Special Interest Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology, is about how Dr. McCullough came to Health Services Research and how anthropology can be inserted and incorporated into improving Veterans health care within the structure of the VA. Successfully implementing evidence-based interventions requires sophisticated understanding of the context and processes of implementation as it unfolds. Ethnographic methods, including observation and documentation of social phenomena as they occur over time, are ideal for managing the complexity inherent in implementation science (IS). Pioneering ethnographic approaches to implementation planning, conduct, and evaluation, anthropologists are shedding new light on causes and mechanisms of implementation difficult to capture using other methods.
Speaker
- Megan B. McCullough, PhD, Research Health Scientist and Investigator at Center for Healthcare Organization; Implementation Research and Research Faculty at University of Massachusetts Lowell