For infectious disease control interventions to be effective, high uptake among at-risk populations is essential. However, low uptake among specific populations has been widely documented across interventions, including vaccinations, screening, and mass drug administration. Additionally, integrating disease control programs into routine health systems is frequently proposed as a strategy to improve efficiency, especially in resource-limited settings.
In this interactive session, Margaret Baker will discuss a new lab focused on using implementation science to address two critical challenges: 1) how to adapt infectious disease control interventions to improve uptake among different populations, and 2) how to effectively integrate these interventions into health systems.
Participants will have the opportunity to share ideas and explore potential connections between this work and ongoing research efforts at Georgetown University.
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Margaret Baker, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Global Health at Georgetown University, where her research applies implementation research methods to infectious disease control. This research agenda builds on her experience leading in efforts to control and eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases, including scaling up interventions and adapting delivery strategies to increase access in low-resource settings. Baker has over twenty publications, the most recent of which was published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.