Amelia (Amy) Van Pelt, PhD, MPH

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

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!

📣I’m thrilled to share that Northwestern is launching two new programs:

🔸Implementation Science Certificate (open to NU and non-NU constituents)
🔸MPH Concentration in Implementation Science

Applications for Fall 2026 now open!

It’s a privilege to serve as the Director of these initiatives.

Northwestern Launches New Online Certificate and MPH Concentration in Implementation Science Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine has launched two new graduate offerings on advanced implementation science methodologies and design strategies.

World-class implementation science training that works with your schedule. Northwestern launches online implementation science certificate and MPH concentration. Now open to applications.

www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/...

Leaving Brazil full of energy after this week’s implementation science institute! Professionals from across the country came together to learn and apply IS with CEPPAR, Einstein & @anabaumann.bsky.social. Honored to be a part of this team!

Ashti Doobay-Persaud, MD, co-director of the Center for Global Health Education delivers opening remarks at Global Health Education Day

Congratulations to the faculty, staff, students and trainees who celebrated global health, education and outreach during the 6th annual Global Health Education Day!🎉

news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2025/05/28/g...

Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament - Implementation Science Communications Background Reducing HIV incidence requires the effective implementation of evidence-based prevention practices. In Chicago, HIV disproportionately impacts sexual minority men (SMM). Long-acting inject...

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

Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament - Implementation Science Communications Background Reducing HIV incidence requires the effective implementation of evidence-based prevention practices. In Chicago, HIV disproportionately impacts sexual minority men (SMM). Long-acting inject...

Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament #impsci #ImpSciComms

implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This was a fun project! Our team ran an innovation tournament to crowdsource ideas for injectable PrEP in Chicago. #impsci

So honored to have won Outstanding Global Health Educator of the Year at Northwestern!

Now, more than ever, we need to lift up the next gen of global health trainees.

Applying Implementation Science to Advance Public Health A Translational Applications in Public Health lecture presented in partnership with Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Implementation science helps close the gap between research and practice. The field moves the needle to make sure people get the things that work. This talk will provide an overview of implementation science, highlight key terminology, and describe the impact on public health. Featuring: Amelia E. Van Pelt, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor, Medical Social Sciences Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine ----------------------------------------- Visit the Feinberg website: http://spr.ly/633242EbZI SUBSCRIBE: http://spr.ly/60073dxlv TWITTER (X): http://spr.ly/60003dxmj INSTAGRAM: http://spr.ly/60083dxWi FACEBOOK: http://spr.ly/60063dxW0 LINKEDIN: http://spr.ly/60063dxqG About Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois: Our mission is to impact the practice of medicine through discovery and education to improve human health.

Miss last week’s seminar? Watch it here!

“Applying Implementation Science to Advance Public Health” with @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social
http://spr.ly/633202EbZ4

So proud of this team!!

"We recognize in the field that it's necessary to actually get interventions to folks. So there's been a great investment from leadership to really recruit implementation scientists," says Amy Van Pelt, PhD, MPH — bit.ly/Podcast-Van-...

Implementation science helps close the gap between research and practice. On Thursday, April 10, Amy Van Pelt, PhD, MPH,
will provide an overview of the field, highlight key terminology, and describe its impact on public health during our next TAPH Lecture — bit.ly/TAPH-Van-Pelt

Exciting news! A new grant from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention supports a partnership between Northwestern University Department of Medical Social Sciences & global collaborators to adapt a suicide prevention package in Ethiopia. Congrats to the team! 🎉 Read more: shorturl.at/Xqp6M

Kudos to @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social, PhD, MPH, Lisa Hirschhorn, MD, MPH, and Kylie Dougherty, PhD, RN, for participating in the Stellenbosch University/Northwestern University Global Health Knowledge Hub Conference in South Africa!

Bridging Gaps to Improve Global Health with Amy Van Pelt, PhD Through implementation science, NUCATS is dedicated to accelerating and moving new interventions into impact that improves health for all. In this episode of Science in Translation, Amy Van Pelt, PhD,...

Through implementation science, NUCATS Institute accelerates interventions that improve health for all! On Science in Translation, @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social, PhD, MPH, discusses bridging research & practice. Listen here now: tinyurl.com/4xh3n85n

Students Compete in Intramural Global Health Case Competition

Students from across Northwestern’s schools convened to compete in an intramural Global Health Case Competition, hosted by the Havey Institute of Global Health and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Global Health Studies Program. Read more: shorturl.at/8dqPS

Students Compete in Intramural Global Health Case Competition

We hosted a global health case competition where multidisciplinary teams pitched innovative solutions to reduce childhood obesity in Mexico. It was SO fun!

Up next: International case comp with the winning team!

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CDIS, our #ImpSci center at Northwestern, recently marked our 2nd birthday and we are celebrating in full force at the Academy Health #DIScience24 Conference! We have 82 faculty and staff giving 52 distinct presentations from plenaries to award nominees to Best of D&I! 🥳🎉

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Addressing the Growing Need for Implementation Science  - News Center Translating medical research findings from the research laboratory into patient care, otherwise known as from “bench to bedside,” is far more complex than it sounds, but is imperative to improve human...

Fantastic piece on all of the incredible work going on @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social in #impsci!!! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

If you make one more scary #impsci theory, model, or framework (to add to 143 and counting), I will cut you…

Celebrating an #impsci Happy Halloween 🎃 with the #CDIS Northwestern team

Hi! Migrating over to the better app, so a quick intro- I'm an Assistant Prof at Northwestern. As an implementation scientist and epidemiologist, my work focuses on increasing uptake of EBPs for infectious diseases in resource-limited settings, primarily LMICs. Look forward to connecting!