Implementation Learning Community (ILC)

Description: This meeting focused on the critical role of community health workers in community health centers featuring a presentation and a panel discussion that included clinician and CHW perspectives.

Presenter: Heidi Behforouz, MD, LA County of Department of Health Services

Description: This meeting featured a presentation on language barriers, disparities, and assistance followed by breakout groups where participants discussed a case study and shared successes and challenges at their health centers.

Presenter: Alicia Fernandez, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Description: There was a presentation on sustaining and expanding community advisory boards and a discussion on how health center community advisory boards/groups can support the implementation of evidence-based practices.

Presenters: Rebekka Lee, ScD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Vetta Thompson, PhD, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

Description: The Stakeholder and Equity Data Driven Implementation (SEDDI) model was presented and participants had the opportunity to give input to improve the usefulness of the model with the goal of getting it ready to be used in community health centers to improve health equity in cancer screening and other initiatives.

Presenter: Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD, ISCCCE Methods Unit

Description: This meeting focused on data in health equity and featured a presentation on sharing public health data and building trust with communities. Following the keynote presentation, Azara Healthcare provided a demonstration of their new health equity dashboards that community health centers can build.

Presenter: Margarita Alegria, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Description: This meeting featured a presentation on primary care and community health center workforce based off of results from an ongoing national survey of providers.
Presenter: Rebecca S. Etz, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Description: This meeting featured a presentation on what the Harvard ISCCCE team learned from interviews exploring community health center professionals’ perspectives on defining, measuring, and addressing health equity in cancer prevention and control.
Presenter: Kelly Aschbrenner, PhD, ISCCCE Methods Unit

Description: This meeting focused on shared decision-making among providers and patients in cancer screening and other pressing health topics.
Presenters: Karen Sepucha, PhD, MGH Health Decision Sciences Center | Leigh Simmons, MD, MGH Health Decision Sciences Center

Description: This meeting focused on the intersections between quality improvement (QI) and implementation science (IS), and healthcare delivery science. The presentation will be followed by a moderated panel discussion to dive deeper into QI vs IS.

Presenter: Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Description: This meeting focused on promoting equitable delivery of care in diverse populations, community engagement, and overcoming barriers to preventive care such as lung cancer screening.

Presenters: Dr. Efrén Flores, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital | Dr. Elyse Park, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Descriptions: This meeting featured a panel presentation by each of the four community health centers currently implementing the dual screening colorectal cancer and social needs pilot.

Presenters: Marjanna Barber-Dubois, Manet Community Health Center | Annette Thomas, Brockton Neighborhood Health Center | Ashley Prettyman, Harbor Health Services, Inc. | Angela Miller and Lindsey Roberts, Lowell Community Health Center