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CATALYST Executive Director and Family and Community Medicine Distinguished Professor Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, will work alongside study co-leader William Grobman, MD, MBA, a maternal fetal medicine physician as well as professor and vice chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to design and test new ways to improve the health of pregnant people and their babies by targeting social determinants of health. The effort, Better birth outcomes and Experiences Through Technology, Education and Reporting (BETTER), is part of a $20 million American Heart Association (AHA) effort to build in a health equity research network to identify solutions that can improve outcomes and reduce health disparities experienced by pregnant people and infants of color or those who are born into poverty.
Dr. Sarah MacEwan, an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was interviewed by Infection Control Today about her work related to healthcare associated infections. She was the lead author for a recent paper, appearing in the American Journal of Infection Control, titled "Concerns and frustrations about the public reporting of device-related healthcare-associated infections: Perspectives of hospital leaders and staff." The publication, co-authored by several other CATALYST team members, employed qualitative research methods to offer insight into the concerns of hospital leaders and staff members regarding the public reporting of HAIs.
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CATALYST Executive Director Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS, also serves as a co-principal investigator for the Center to STOP COVID, a Serological Sciences Center of Excellence supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in the National Institutes of Health. The effort is studying the long-term effect of COVID-19 on first responders, health care workers and the general population.
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At CATALYST, our faculty and staff are always hard at work on a number of projects related to team science, analytics, and systems thinking. Our research has been published in a variety of journals, and it is regularly cited in other scholarly work.
Among our most recent publications, appearing in the American Journal of Infection Control, is "Identifying management practices for promoting infection prevention: Perspectives on strategic communication" by Ann Scheck McAlearney, ScD, MS; Sarah MacEwan, PhD; Megan Gregory, PhD; Lindsey Sova, MPH; Courtney Hebert, MD, MS; and Alice Gaughan, MS. The article details an extensive study that involved interviews of 188 administrative and clinical leaders across 18 U.S. hospitals regarding the management practices employed to help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). By identifying and describing these practices, the authors offer insight into how strategic communication can support improvement.
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