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Bridges Program

The Bridges Program is housed in Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The team is composed of Feinberg faculty, trainees, postdoctoral students and research staff with a shared interest in:

  1. Developing and collaborating in application of innovative research methods and tools to conduct rigorous implementation research.
  2. Developing and delivering trainings on implementation research, implementation methodology and implementation practice.
  3. Fostering partnerships between communities, researchers and service delivery systems.
  4. Supporting improved delivery, evaluation and sustainment of health services.  

Team members participate in over 30 active research grants, including two research centers and two implementation science initiatives: the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology (Ce-PIM) and the Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real- World Outcomes (C-STAR), the Implementation Science Coordination, Consultation, and Collaboration Initiative (ISC3I) and the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS) Dissemination and Implementation Science (D&I) Program. Bridges faculty have received sponsored funding from the NIH: NIDA, NIMH, NIAID, NIDDK, NIMHD, NICHD. Other federal research sponsors include the Department of Defense (DOD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the United States Department of Agriculture.

Staff:

Nanette Hannah, PSMG Administrator
Email: nanette.hannah@northwestern.edu

Juan A. Villamar, Sr. Program Administrator
Email: juan.villamar@northwestern.edu

 

Doctoral Students:

Can Gürkan, Department of Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics
Email: gurkan@u.northwestern.edu

Emily Fu, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Email: emilyfu2024@u.northwestern.edu

 

Core Faculty:

Allison Carroll, PhD
Email: allison.carroll@northwestern.edu

Ashley Knapp, PhD
Email: ashley.knapp@northwestern.edu

Dennis Li, PhD, MPH
Email: dennis@northwestern.edu

Hendricks Brown, PhD
Email: hendricks.brown@northwestern.edu

Miriam Rafferty, DPT, PhD
Email: miriam.rafferty@northwestern.edu

Nanette Benbow, MA
Email: nanette@northwestern.edu

Wouter Vermeer, PhD
Email: wouter.vermeer@northwestern.edu 

 

Funded Research Activities & Resources:

Prevention Science & Methodology Group (PSMG)

  • Health focus: General

Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology (Ce-PIM)

Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS) Dissemination and Implementation Science (D&I) Program

Implementation Science Coordination, Consultation, and Collaboration Initiative (ISC3I)

  • Health focus: HIV

Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real-World Outcomes (C-STAR)

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