The Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice of the Brown University School of Public Health invite applications for a faculty position in the areas of evidence synthesis, or development of evidence-based policy or guidance at the Assistant, Associate, or full Professor level in the University’s research track.
Applicants’ contributions may involve applied, empirical-methodological (e.g., meta-epidemiological), or fundamental-methodological research (e.g., development and validation of novel quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods).
Kristin Konnyu, Assistant Professor, here at the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health has a new publication released. Professor Konnyu and collaborators publication is entitled, "Generating consistent longitudinal real-world data to support research: lessons from physical therapists." This article is available at the American College of Rheumatology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr2.11465
Ethan Balk, Associate Professor and Gaelen Adam, Senior Research Associate and EPC Program Manager here at the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, were two of the multi-co-authors of a paper in the International Urogynecology Journal that won an award from the journal for being their most impactful paper of the year. The paper is entitled, "A Guide for Urogynecologic Patient Care Utilizing Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Review of Existing Evidence," published in print in June 2020.
Congratulations to Kristin Konnyu, Assistant Professor, for being an invited member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM). SRSM is an organization that provides a forum for exchanges among those interested in advancing and applying research synthesis methodology. The link to the Society’s website is http://www.srsm.org.
A new publication at JAMA Network Open by Alyssa Bilinski and collaborators. This publication is entitled, "Model-Estimated Association Between Simulated US Elementary School–Related SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, Mitigation Interventions, and Vaccine Coverage Across Local Incidence Levels."
A new publication by Ethan Balk and collaborators. To evaluate postdiverticulitis colonoscopy and interventions to prevent recurrent diverticulitis. Published in Annals of Internal Medicine, January 18, 2022, entitled, "Evaluation and Management After Acute Left-Sided Colonic Diverticulitis." Read more.
This book is for a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the theory and application of statistical methods for meta-analysis. It is written at the level of graduate courses in statistics, but will be of interest to and readable for quantitative scientists from a range of disciplines. The book can be used as a graduate level textbook, as a general reference for methods, or as an introduction to specialized topics using state-of-the art methods.
Anya Rader Wallack, CESH Associate Director and Professor of the Practice has been appointed Senior Vice President for Strategic Communications at the University of Vermont Health Network. The CESH team will miss Anya's leadership and team building within the center. She has been a catalyst for change within Brown's health research and policy community and overall health care systems in Rhode Island. Wallack has dedicated her professional career to healthcare reform through research, policy, communications, and advocacy.
The objectives of this report are to summarize evidence on the barriers and enablers to COVID-19 vaccination among historically marginalized groups and list potential strategies to promote uptake and enhance accessibility of COVID-19 vaccines among these groups.
Prepared by:
Gregorio Benitez, AB, MPH ‘21 Candidate
Kristin J, Konnyu, PhD
Brown University
School of Public Health
Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health
Prepared for:
Rhode Island Department of Health Mass Vaccination Taskforce
Summary: This summary was undertaken as a rapid evidence review for the Rhode Island Department of Health’s (RIDOH’s) Mass Vaccination Taskforce and is intended for use by RIDOH stakeholders and their partners to support decision-making for communication and health messaging campaigns about the COVID-19 vaccine and the RI vaccination program. We plan to update the review in Feb 2021 with new evidence, and bimonthly thereafter.
The Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health is dedicated to advancing the state of knowledge about what works in health care.
Come join us for a series of lectures about the findings from our latest round of systematic reviews. Each event will also feature an overview of our methods and some tools for conducting your own evidence synthesis. We’ll also provide breakfast or lunch.
Kristin Danko, PhD recently was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice. Danko has served as a post-doc research associate in the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health since 2018. Danko’s area of research interest is implementation science and evidence synthesis of complex interventions.
Professor Eric Benoit from Brown Medial School spoke at Brown Public on September 25, 2019 about, Mortality as an endpoint in clinical trials of trauma & critical illness. Hosted by CESH.
CESH's Kristin Danko and consultant Megan Hall taught a Two-day course on Rapid Reviews for the CDC's Policy Research, Analysis and Development Office (PRADO) on September 12-13, 2019. This session helped attendees understand the general methods of a traditional systematic review and then described the pros and cons of modifying these methods to speed up the process when time is limited. They were hosted by Jim Kucik and Rich Puddy of the CDC.
CESH develops an online interactive tool that allows users to obtain descriptive and analytic results for a systematic review comparing at least three treatments in various populations. In a limited evaluation, stakeholders were satisfied with the functionality of the tool and found it easy to use.
Issa Dahabreh, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice and founding member of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health (CESH) won the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM) Early Career Development Award. SRSM is a cross disciplinary society that supports and promotes the development and use of innovative and robust methods of research synthesis.
CESH recently launched an updated version of the Systematic Review Data Repository. This new version, called SRDR+ (https://srdrplus.ahrq.gov), is a free, powerful, online, collaborative system for extracting and archiving study data during systematic reviews. To our knowledge, this is the only system of its kind that is free to anybody around the world. We therefore consider SRDR+ to be a community resource.
On Wednesday, February 6, Governor Gina M. Raimondo signed an executive order establishing an official target for health care spending growth in Rhode Island: 3.2% annual growth through 2022. The 3.2% growth target came out of work that Brown University's School of Public Health began last summer after receiving a $550,000 grant from the Peterson Center on Healthcare. CESH's Anya Rader Wallack, PhD is a member of the team providing cost analysis to the state.
K12 Scholar Jonah Popp is the co-author of a new article in Medical Decision Making Policy and Practice (MDMP&P). The article, entitled ""Yield and Cost-effectiveness of Computed Tomography Colonography Versus Colonoscopy for Post Colorectal Cancer Surveillance" compares the utility of computed tomographic colonography (CTC) with optical colonoscopy (OC) in 231 patients one year after colon surgery.
SRSM is a cross disciplinary society that supports innovative and robust research synthesis methods. The society has a limit of 85 active members to allow for vigorous participation and interaction at their meetings. Vacancies are filled by an annual nomination and election process. SRSM added only seven new members this year.
CESH K12 Scholar, Jonah Popp, PhD is a co-author on recently published article: "Yield and Cost-effectiveness of Computed Tomography Colonography Versus Colonoscopy for Post Colorectal Cancer Surveillance."
Christopher Schmid, PhD, Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health, has a featured interview in Amstat News. Read the interview.
Kristin Danko, PhD, has been presented with the Worton Researcher in Training Award at The Ottawa Hospital Gala on Saturday, October 27, 2018 for work completed during her PhD on methods for optimizing evidence synthesis of complex interventions.
Christopher Schmid, Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of Biostatistics, along with CESH’s Valerie Rofeberg, Biostatistician and Senior Research Associate, and Stacey Springs, Investigator in Health Services, Policy and Practice, attended and presented at the 25th Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh, UK which took place from September 16-18, 2018.
Center of Evidence Synthesis in Health Oral Sessions:
Thomas Trikalinos, MD, Associate Professor in Health Services, Policy, and Practice and the Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, led an AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center project on Treatments for Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin with Aaron Drucker, MD, ScM, FRCPC, CESH Research Associates; Gaelen Adam. MLIS, Valerie Rofeberg, ScM and other collegues.
Ethan Balk, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, along with other CESH and Tufts Medical Center collegues led an AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center project on Nonsurgical Treatments for Urinary Incontinence in Women.
Congratulations to Professor Christopher H. Schmid for being appointed as chair of the Department of Biostatistics effective 1 August 2018. Schmid has been with Brown since 2012 and is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health. Schmid succeeds Joseph Hogan, ScD in the position of chair.
Dr. Issa Dahabreh published an article "Randomization, randomized trials, and analyses using observational data: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright" in the Social Science & Medicine journal.
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review Elects Three New Members to Governance Board
-- New board members will bring their broad leadership experience - spanning patient advocacy, biomedical innovation, and state health policy - to help guide ICER in its mission to produce evidence that will help the health system achieve sustainable access to high-value care for all patients --