HEAL Webinar Series: Getting Out Your Research Stories
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United States
Getting Out Your Research Stories: Strategic Approaches to Disseminating Science into Spheres of Influence
Prevention scientists aspire to produce research findings that inform public health practice, influence dialogue, and shape health care policy. But ultimately accomplishing our dissemination goals requires strategy and action. We must push our research products beyond traditional academic publishing venues and communicate and engage with audiences through various forms of media—becoming “investigator-communicators.”
During the webinar “Getting Out Your Research Stories: Strategic Approaches to Disseminating Science into Spheres of Influence,” we will hear stories and advice from investigator-communicators who are part of the HEAL Prevention Cooperative (HPC). HPC investigators are supported through the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Preventing Opioid Use Disorder (Preventing OUD) research program.
During this webinar:
- HPC Dissemination Lead and communication scientist Elizabeth Adams (RTI International) will apply communication strategy and theory to inform strategic dissemination of scientific findings.
- HPC Investigator Lynn Fiellin (Yale University) and journalist Noah Smith (The Washington Post) will discuss the interplay between scientists and journalists in translating prevention science to mass audiences and the production of Smith’s 2021 Washington Post article on Yale’s play2PREVENT Lab.
- Massachusetts General Hospital study team members Joanna Kramer and Noah Soutier will discuss their use of Instagram to communicate with research participants and the public and explain their more recent pivot to developing a newsletter that achieves their dissemination goals.
The Zoom webinar will be held from 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern Time on March 2, 2023, and is free for any HEAL investigator or public health scientist to attend.
To join the webinar, register here.
The Preventing OUD includes research on intervention development and evaluation; risk and protective factors; social determinants of health; and dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of preventive programming. For more information, visit https://heal.nih.gov/research/new-strategies/preventing-opioid-use-disorder.