In this lecture, Dr. Emily Haines discusses potential applications of user-centered design in implementation research. Following a brief overview of the field of implementation science, she describes how user-centered design can be leveraged to harmonize interventions, the contexts in which they are implemented, and the strategies used to facilitate their implementation. In particular, she uses her dissertation research on improving care coordination for adolescents and young adults with cancer to highlight selected methods from user-centered design including usability testing, ethnographic contextual inquiry, and prototyping methods.

About the speaker:

Emily Haines is a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Wake Forest School of Medicine's Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program. She received her PhD from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she studied implementation and organization science. Topically, Dr. Haines' research focuses on improving cancer care coordination, particularly for adolescents and young adults. Methodologically, she is interested in the application of user-centered design in implementation research to improve fit between interventions and the contexts in which they will be implemented. Other research interests include the use of ethnographic methods and the use of organizational theory in implementation science.