Meet the Dissemination & Implementation Group (DIG) Team.
The DIG is a partnership between Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, with membership connecting:
Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
University of Maryland Baltimore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (AI)
Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness
Jill Marsteller, PhD, MPP
Jill is Co-Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Group of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. She is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of Research at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Promoting Embedded Research in the Learning Health System, and Associate Director of the Center for Health Services and Outcome Research. She has more than 30 years’ experience in health services research, focusing on organization behavior and theory, implementation and evaluation of real-world programs to improve quality, safety and equity of health care services.
Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Gail is Co-Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Group of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. She is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Director of The ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness at Johns Hopkins. She holds a joint appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She also holds appointments in epidemiology, and health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her areas of clinical expertise include clinical trials, epidemiology and health services research. Her research is devoted to improving overall health and decreasing premature mortality for persons with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Fadia Shaya, PhD, MPH
Fadia is Co-Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Group and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore. Her work in population health and pharmaceutical outcomes research, focuses on value assessment and dissemination and implementation science. As the Executive Director of the Behavioral Health Resources and Technical Assistance Program, she leads a team of experts with a mission to improve population health by bridging the gap between research and practice through technical assistance and evaluation. She has built research networks, centered on data science, including prescription drugs data, overall health data and social determinants of health data, to develop evidence-based strategies, and disseminating them to stakeholders. She leads the dissemination and implementation core at the UMB. Dr. Shaya will work with Drs. Marsteller and Daumit and all DIG members, to outreach to researchers and support growth in D&I research.
Christina T. Yuan, PhD, MPH
Christina is Co-Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Group of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. She is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Principal Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and Associate Director of the NIMH P50 Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness. She is a health care management researcher who studies the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices, health information technology, and other innovations that are designed to improve care delivery. She has extensive experience using qualitative, quantitative, and social network methods to form a comprehensive understanding of how to “put things into practice,” with a particular focus on engaging with community partners (policy-makers, clinicians and staff, and patients) to inform and improve the implementation and scale-up of innovations.
Shagufta Farheen, DDS, MPH
Shagufta is a Faculty Research Associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her MPH degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her Dental Surgery degree from Aligarh Muslim University, India. She has a certificate in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has past research experience at Harvard Medical School, and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Her research focuses on health equity, healthcare access, racial disparities, health policy, pain management, infection prevention, patient-centered care, patient safety in the hospital and other settings, quality improvement and outcomes research, healthcare communications and collaboration, quality of life, oral health equity, tobacco cessation, global health, clinical research, and infectious diseases. She leverages her clinical experience and research experience with her data-driven solutions-oriented mindset, strategic planning, analytical thinking, leadership, communication, and project management skillset to improve health outcomes. She also does support tasks at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR.)
Shannon Cole, PhD
Shannon is the Senior Medical writer and Editor at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and Johns Hopkins, where they facilitate many of the organizational communication and dissemination efforts between both research and clinical operations, including authoring peer-review manuscripts, grants, conducting of interviews, and creating and leading educational offerings. Shannon earned his doctorate in biopsychology from the University of Michigan, with a focus in the psychology and neuroscience of motivation, emotion, and learning. Shannon completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he conducted preclinical translational studies of the neurobiology of drug abuse and stress.
Nicole Sealfon, MPH
Nicole is the associate director of the BHRT Program, where she coordinates the program’s team and manages various substance use prevention grant programs. In this role, she provides technical assistance to local jurisdictions on assessment, planning, and evaluation for substance use prevention programs. She has also worked on developing and implementing two statewide surveys. Nicole’s interests include substance use policy and innovative strategies to reduce drug use and misuse.
Fitrat Hossain, PhD
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Fitrat is a data scientist and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research; University of Maryland Baltimore. His research interest is to apply machine learning and statistical techniques on health related data to answer questions that will help health professionals as well as policy makers to make better decisions.
Rana Karslioglu
Rana is a research specialist with the BHRT Program, University of Maryland Baltimore, where she provides technical assistance to local jurisdictions on substance use prevention programs. She has experience with psychology and mental health, youth engagement, public health, social media, and research. Rana’s interests include reducing health and mental health disparities through research and engagement.
