Target Audience

Des Moines University faculty, staff, and students.

Objectives

• Describe the limitations of traditional approaches used in traditional health promotion and disease prevention studies.
• Highlight the advantages of translational approaches and implementation science methods for advancing research on the disseminate of evidence-based interventions.

Speaker

Gregory Welk, PhD
Barbara E. Forker Professor in Kinesiology, Iowa State University

Complex problems require complex solutions and this is definitely the case for many of the complex public health problems facing our country (e.g. obesity, drug addiction, depression etc). A new translational research center at Iowa State University called U-TuRN has been established to advance research on addressing these complex health problems. The stated vision is 'to build sustainable community systems that enable healthy lifestyles by empowering communities to take action informed by science'.  Achieving this translational vision necessitates new approaches in the ways that community health problems are examined, studied and addressed. Full biography.