Shoba Ramanadhan, ScD, MPH is a behavioral scientist with expertise in implementation science, cancer disparities, and community-based participatory research. Her work focuses on strengthening systems in underserved communities to leverage the best available evidence for cancer prevention and control.
Her research falls into three streams. First, she designs and evaluates workforce development interventions to promote the use of research evidence within community settings in the US and India. This work also includes examinations of the impacts of staff social networks on the uptake and use of research evidence. Second, she studies the adaptation of evidence-based preventive services for use in underserved communities in the US and India. Her goal is to support strategic adaptation so that implementing organizations can increase the impact of available interventions by leveraging practice- and research-based expertise. The third stream of her work focuses on methods to incorporate practitioner expertise into the cancer prevention and control evidence base more effectively. This includes evaluations of strategies to identify and engage critical implementation stakeholders as well as technology-based methods to gather stakeholder insight efficiently. Much of her work is conducted in partnership with community-based organizations and health-focused coalitions. Shoba is an investigator within the Methods Unit and will lead the Capacity Building site support and activities.
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