Making Health Interventions Smarter through Behavioral Science
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How can people make better decisions about their health? How do we improve health-based interventions and create sustainable behavioral change? Join us for an expert panel discussing challenges and opportunities in developing and evaluating health-based interventions. Discussants include:
** Rinad S. Beidas, PhD, Assoc. Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics and Health Policy; Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute (PISCE@LDI)
Areas of expertise:
Improving the quality of public behavioral health services for youth; Implementation strategy design; Increasing the use of evidence-based practices; Implementation Science
** Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, Assoc. Professor of Nursing at UPenn
Areas of expertise: Vaccination exemption rates, health incentives, behavioral economics, decision-making & health.
** Marilyn Schapira, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine @ VA Medical Center
Areas of expertise:
Shared decision making, health literacy, risk communication, women's health.
** Jana Smith, MPH, Managing Director, ideas42
Areas of expertise:
Global health, gender, women's health, project management.
Moderator:, Chris Nave, PhD, Associate Director, Master of Behavioral & Decision Sciences at Penn
SCHEDULE: 5-530pm: Network in lobby and enjoy refreshments; 530-630pm panel discussion, 630pm and beyond is networking and refreshments in the main lobby.
FREE refreshments (beer/wine) courtesy of Venture Cafe, will be available before and after the event.
**A note about our Venue host:
Venture Cafe has weekly Thursday gatherings open to the public- no signup's necessary. Programming occurs from 3-8pm (come for as little or as long as you'd like. To learn more about Venture Cafe: https://venturecafephiladelphia.org/core-programs/thursday-gathering/
Action Design Philly-Behavioral Science Meetups are organized by the Master of Behavioral & Decision Sciences Program at the University of Pennsylvania.