Apply now for Feinberg’s in person Implementation Science Academy. Applications due January 5, 2026. Join us April 28 to April 30 in Chicago for three days of training, expert feedback, and community building in implementation science. Learn more: shorturl.at/o5nas

Congratulations to Maja Kuharic, MPharm, PhD, Msc, on receiving two grants from the EuroQol Research Foundation to further development of the EQ Health and Wellbeing (EQ-HWB) instrument! Read more: shorturl.at/8hUTl

Northwestern University Medical Social Sciences celebrates trainees Hannah Cheng, MS, and Ian Sotomayor, BA, who were selected as Health Policy Research Scholars, a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program advancing health equity. Read more: shorturl.at/RB3vh

Big news: Alex Psihogios, PhD, earned an NCI R37 MERIT Award to study whether social media influencers can help AYAs with cancer stay on their medication. “We are so proud,” said MSS chair @rsbeidas.bsky.social, PhD. Read more: shorturl.at/ndpoC

Congratulations to Arielle Smith, a PhD student studying clinical psychology in the Lab for Scalable Mental Health under the direction of Jessica Schleider, PhD, who was featured in this breakthroughs staff profile! www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/abo...

Big news! 🎉 Northwestern’s Dept of Medical Social Sciences & Univ of Botswana received a 3-year @NIMHgov grant to launch a youth suicide prevention initiative in Botswana, led by Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH & Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza, PhD. Read more: shorturl.at/hMp0L

New commentary out in Learning Health Systems! “Data-Driven Implementation Trials: Realizing Their Full Potential in Achieving the Promise of Learning Health Systems” explores how data-driven trials can help healthcare systems learn and improve. Read more: shorturl.at/tbLxV

Kudos to Andrea Graham, PhD, and team for being featured on the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing’s Research Highlights page! Read “Virtual Help for a Real-World Problem” on tech interventions for eating disorders: tinyurl.com/44x26brc

@nufeinbergmss.bsky.social is partnering with the Rekhi Foundation for Happiness to expand access to evidence-based well-being programs. Led by Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, and team, this initiative teaches proven skills like mindfulness, gratitude, & stress reappraisal. shorturl.at/QRHOt

Kudos to Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH, who was invited by the Pan American Health Organization to be a key speaker at the Regional Workshop on Nursing and Midwifery Leadership which brought together more than 500 leaders from all over Latin America!

The Department of Medical Social Sciences is thrilled to announce and celebrate the recent promotions of our faculty members, effective September 1, 2025. Congratulations!

Huge thanks to Javin D'Souza, M.Ed., for his amazing work as MSS Faculty Affairs Coordinator. Javin’s dedication, organization, and enthusiasm have been truly impactful. Congratulations on successfully completing a full cycle of Faculty Affairs Office activities!

Experts at Northwestern helped create the newest NIH Toolbox—a nationally standardized assessment of infant development (16 days–42 months). Kudos to Richard Gershon, PhD, for sharing what inspired it. Watch here: shorturl.at/MkB39

Congratulations to Ado Rivera, PhD, and team on receiving a grant from the American Heart Association titled: "Mixed Methods Study on Impact and Implementation of Social Needs Screening and Referral on Hypertension Outcomes." Read more: shorturl.at/EyYMG

Coming this fall: From Data to Design: Visualizing Health Research Academy A 4-part methodological training institute to help researchers turn data into clear + compelling visuals. Led by Cindy Veldhuis, PhD. 📅 Sept. 8, 22 & Oct. 8, 15 | 12–5 CT ℹ️ Read more: shorturl.at/14z6X

Kudos to David Cella, PhD, for his feature published today in Newsweek! Read the full story here now: www.newsweek.com/map-shows-st...

Huge congratulations to Patricia Bucko for publishing her first, first-author publication in Frontiers in Medicine, entitled “Identification and Synthesis of End-of-Life Decision-making Measures: A Scoping Review”! We love to see young scholars grow! shorturl.at/VGSfU

Congratulations to Sarah Pila-Leiderman, PhD, for being selected as Chicago’s Jewish United Fund's 2025 “36 under 36 honorees" for her impactful community work! Read the full list here: www.juf.org/Mag/36under3...

Congratulations to Maria Pyra, PhD, for winning the 2025 Teaching Excellence Award for the instructorship of a course on Cancer Epidemiology!

Kudos to David Cella, PhD, for his interview in a recent Newsweek article entitled, "Map Shows States With Best—and Worst—Quality of Life." www.newsweek.com/map-shows-st...

Kudos to Andrew Berry, PhD, Kathryn Macapagal, PhD, their MSS/HSIP student, William Liem, and Dept of Communication Studies colleague Dr. Calvin Liang who were awarded $10K from the HCI+D Center in Evanston to do a mini-symposium!

Outcomes and Measurement Science had their divisional retreat this month and it was a blast. Shout out to Cindy Veldhuis, PhD, Maja Kuharic, MPharm, PhD, Magda Kupczyk, MPH, and Elizabeth Dworak, PhD, and Joseph McCormack for helping to plan a fun and interactive retreat!

Kudos to Stephanie Young, PhD, who was asked to contribute psychometric analyses to an MFA student's thesis show at SAIC! The show opens today and runs through July 27. Check out Emma Bergman's project here: tinyurl.com/3sr9zev2

📣 Big Announcement! 📣 🚨 It’s here! Agenda's up & registration's open for our Data Design Workshop! Join us for a hands-on workshop that will transform how you design charts, posters, and presentations. 🗓️ Sept 8 & 22 & Oct 8 & 15, 2025 📍 Virtual REGISTER: bit.ly/4k7JgTH AGENDA: bit.ly/4eykTNR

Shout out to Javin D'Souza and all the Northwestern staff and faculty who marched in the Pride Parade at the end of June! We hope everyone had a happy and safe Pride Month ❤️

🎨 Workshop Alert: Visualizing Health Research. Whether you're preparing for a conference or a grant pitch, this hands-on workshop Sept 8 & 22; Oct 8 & 15 will help you turn your research into visuals that inform and inspire. Learn more: shorturl.at/4tdY1

Kudos to @rsbeidas.bsky.social, PhD, for her recent interview with Jill Suttie for AIM Youth Mental Health, a foundation that funds research for youth mental health care. Read the interview here now: aimymh.org/why-now-is-t...

Shout-out and thank you to Joey McCormack for orchestrating a wonderful end-of-year retreat for the Division of Implementation Science, and to Julie A. Bednark for leading an outstanding professional development workshop! Thank you both for helping MSS shine!

Shout out to Andrea Graham, PhD who is currently featured on NU's Research Impact site for submitting a video to their Research Matters campaign! Watch her video here now: shorturl.at/xg9za

We are proud to celebrate Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann, MD, MS, for being selected as a 2025 Fellow of the Implementation Research Institute (IRI)—a national, NIH-funded training program widely regarded as a cornerstone in the field of implementation science. shorturl.at/JGQcU

Kudos to our Financial Coordinator, Eric Gustafson, for his Staff Profile feature in the recent issue of Breakthroughs! Read Eric's profile here: shorturl.at/wl8cH

The Implementation Research Institute (IRI) is an NIH-funded training program held annually at Washington University in St. Louis. This year, representatives from MSS, CDIS, CBITs, and the Lab for Scalable Mental Health were in attendance!

Kudos to William Liem, HSIP PhD student, for being awarded a Digital Justice Seed Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support their dissertation research!

Congratulations to Marquita Lewis, PhD, MPH, MS who will be one of the keynote speakers at The University of Vermont Cancer Center's inaugural Rural Health and Cancer Conference which be held June 19-21, 2025. We're so proud of you!

Kudos to Eileen Graham, PhD, for being featured in the Spring 2025 edition of Northwestern Magazine! Check out "Sound Off: How to Make Friends — And Why We Need Them" and read Eileen's thoughts on the importance of friendship here now: shorturl.at/7LsbH

Congratulations to Stephanie Ruth Young, PhD, who won the Mensa Education & Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research for her paper, “The International Cognitive Ability Resource: An Open Science Measure Useful for Research with High-Ability Postsecondary Students!”

Kudos to @rsbeidas.bsky.social, PhD, for being featured in a recent Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) article about her keynote address to the sixth annual Vanderbilt Learning Health Systems (LHS) Symposium on May 13. You can read more about the event here: shorturl.at/ReTsr

Congratulations to Senior Program Coordinator Grace Kim for her recent feature in the May edition of the Breakthroughs Newsletter! We're so proud of you, Grace! Read the full story here now: shorturl.at/a8OAL

Congratulations to Lisa Hirschhorn, MD, MPH for accepting an invitation to be the Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications! Kudos on this accomplishment Lisa!

Congratulations to @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social faculty @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social, PhD, MPH and team on publishing this paper that uses the innovation tournament methodology to crowdsource ideas for implementation of long-acting PrEP in sexual minority men in Chicago! Read now: shorturl.at/suO5p

The work groups at @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social Implementation Science Academy brought it to life! 💥 Participants dove into hands-on projects, tackled real-world challenges & sparked big breakthroughs. So much energy, teamwork & fun! Join us in 2026: shorturl.at/o5nas 🚀👏 #impsci @ipham.bsky.social

We were thrilled to welcome Faith Summersett Williams, PhD, MS, to Implementation Science Academy! 🙌 She shared her work on bridging substance use screening & treatment for teens with chronic illness. Join us in 2026: shorturl.at/o5nas #impsci @ipham.bsky.social

The work groups at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Implementation Science Academy were a highlight! 🎉 Hands-on learning, real-world challenges, big ideas & “a-ha!” moments 💡🙌 Join us in 2026: shorturl.at/o5nas @ipham.bsky.social

Congratulations to @emilyhho.bsky.social, PhD & team on receiving an NIH ECHO grant to test the NIH Toolbox V3 App—advancing pediatric research tools for hard-to-reach populations! Read more: shorturl.at/xQGdm

How can implementation science accelerate progress toward ending the HIV epidemic? A new JAIDS supplemental issue provides insight by summarizing HIV implementation knowledge from 120 EHE projects and identifying next steps to advance interventions. tinyurl.com/4jb2fmbt

New editorial in @implementsci.bsky.social from our editorial team that describes #impsci grant terminations in the US and globally; characterizes the topical areas & methods most affected; and considers implications for the field implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Congratulations to Amisha Wallia, MD, MS, on being inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the oldest medical honor societies in the U.S. Read more: shorturl.at/yIwkj

🎉 Big congrats to Isabel Rooper, BA, Research Coordinator at Northwestern's Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, on winning the “Up and Coming” Award from the OBBI SIG 🏆👏 A rising star in behavioral intervention research! Read more: shorturl.at/XGGoA

Congratulations to Patricia Lee King, PhD, and team at @nufeinbergmss.bsky.social on receiving a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to expand awareness and utilization of resources to support obstetric providers. Learn more: shorturl.at/wnAx2

Congratulations to Haifei Wang, our Associate Director of Research Administration, on her remarkable 20th work anniversary!