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Hey Owl! Can you actually build readiness?  Yup.

4/13/2020

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So, a quick story first.   About eight years ago, whether readiness could be changed was an open question. Intuitively, the answer was yes. After all, change efforts have been going on throughout human history.  However, many people were still thinking about organizations are "ready " or "not ready," without really digging into the things that help make an organization ready.  
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This is one of our central premises.  Readiness isn't just one thing; it's a dynamic collection of motivational and capacity-based concepts that together contribute to how well an innovation gets put into a practice.  So, a bunch of us started on a comprehensive research synthesis to see if there was evidence that these specific subcomponents could be change.   And the answer was,  "Yup!"  

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Randy Schwartz joins the Wandersman Center

4/8/2020

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We are delighted to bring Randy Schwartz, MSPH, onboard with the Wandersman Center.  Randy is a nationally recognized public health professional with over thirty-five years’ experience in implementing health promotion/disease prevention initiatives in state health department and voluntary health organizations with an emphasis on chronic disease prevention and control, cancer control, tobacco control, community-based health promotion and healthy public policy. He is currently President of Public Health Systems Consultants, and serves as the Sr. Public Health Consultant for Cancer Control with the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD). He is an Adjunct Faculty member for several leading academic public health programs. Randy has written and presented on the importance of engaging public health practitioners along with researchers and engaged communities as a key factor in advancing implementation science. 

Randy brings to The Wandersman Center his strong experience as a public health practitioner, thus grounding the reality of implementation in real world situations. He has a long history of linking public health practice with academic and research partners to advance translation, dissemination and quality implementation. Randy’s participation with the work of the Wandersman Center will help bring that lens of real world public health practice to our work.

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"At some point, we just have to roll up our sleeves and do something different. 

That's what readiness provides. It's the something that makes implementation a bit better."

Dr. Brittany Cook
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