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Hi there! I’m here to share the story of why I started PubTrawlr. It all began back in 2010 when I was a young graduate student studying community psychology. This field focuses on creating systemic changes to help improve health and wellness in our communities. One key aspect of this work is getting good ideas […]
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Usually, when I do a conference recap, I wait a few days for the data to settle. However, we’ve got an earlier flight on Friday, and with a wedding and Mother’s Day this weekend, the data would be stale by the time I could reasonably get to it. So what we do here is use […]
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I was lucky enough to be asked to join Drs. Julia and Gill Strait to talk about community psychology, but also the ways in which implementation can be improved. And, hey!, that’s what we are trying to do here about PubTrawlr. Oh, but we covered so much more ground, including: Evolution of substance abuse treatment […]
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Nearly ten years ago, I was part of a paper that attempted to distill syntheses of implementation frameworks down into a usable tool. And that tool was pretty good! You can still find it here, but you’ll have to do some of the paywall shenanigans to get at it. The syntheses paper itself is super […]
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For the past few years, I’ve been interested in contributing to my local town’s school board. There are a lot of reasons for this. Public education is the biggest social intervention in America, so there’s an opportunity for a huge amount of impact and reach. COVID has shown us that the public education system can […]
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My colleague and I are preparing an article on the use of social media to monitor vaccine outreach that we plan to submit to the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Since I had the script up and already ready to go, I thought we’d take a quick look at collaborative networks, as reflected […]
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Harm reduction measures are intended to reduce the negative consequences of certain behaviors, such as drug use and sex. This may be achieved without people having to stop doing these actions altogether. Harm reduction recognizes that some people might not be able or willing to stop, but they can still make changes to protect themselves […]
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Scientific knowledge is all around us, but it can be difficult to understand and use it. The sheer size, complexity, and uncertain quality of scientific literature make it difficult for good ideas to spread. This is unacceptable. Science is a public good. It is funded by the public so that the public can benefit from […]
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Starting this week, we’re rolling out a simpler feedback widget. Look how friendly it is! But our purpose is two-fold. Sure, we want to know how the website is doing and how to improve it. That is one of our core values — we are always improving until we hit that Platonic Ideal. More excitingly, […]
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Jon was able to speak to the Alvernia Board of Trustees’ Innovation Subcommittee about PubTrawlr. He outlined some of the milestones that we have accomplished, and some of the places that we’d like to go. Watch the presentation here, or read the transcription below! PubTrawlr is a company that I’ve working on with my […]
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Worried about the state of health equity in our society? So are we. That’s why we created 101 Days of Health Equity, a publication that shows up in your inbox every, well, 101 days. We bring together research from dozens of journals on one of the dominant challenges in our society today; achieving equitable health […]
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Inspired by our recent deep dive into Implementation Science, I decided to dust off the code and turn it to another favorite journal, The American Journal of Community Psychology. Going all the way back to July 16, 1974, 5,397 authors have published in AJCP. The graph below shows who has published here most frequently. A […]
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