José Daniel Conejeros is a sociologist and statistician from Chile, currently a BIO-Fulbright Scholar (2024) preparing for doctoral studies in the United States. He holds an MSc in Statistics (2023) and an MSc in Sociology (2021) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he also earned his BSc in Social Science with…
Chris LeBoa
Dr. Christopher LeBoa is a Fogarty post-doctoral scholar from UC Berkeley, working from the department of Microbiology at the University of San Francisco de Quito. His work focuses on environmental exposures to pathogens, and the economic conditions that prevent effective interventions to reducing pathogen burden.
Harrison Hansford
Harrison is an NHMRC Postgraduate Scholar completing his PhD at the School of Health Sciences at University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). Harrison’s current research focuses on understanding whether, and for whom interventions for musculoskeletal conditions are safe and effective using ‘big-data,’ which allows us to answer…
Making research more tangible to study participants and communities: templates for dissemination of study findings
This project aims to amplify open science and research transparency by fostering the communication of research findings for study participants and the overall community. Although several studies in public health rely on the participation of human individuals who give their time and share their data, many times their knowledge about research findings…
Research Transparency and Reproducibility: A Complementary Module for All
Engagement with Research Transparency and Reproducibility can be challenging in a classroom, where students are more likely to worry about an upcoming quiz rather than a system of perverse incentives and questionable practices that characterize academic research. Creating a full-length course on the subject is wonderful where possible, but may not be…
Social Science Reproduction Platform
The Social Science Reproduction Platform crowdsources and catalogs attempts to assess and improve the computational reproducibility of social science research. Instructors can use the SSRP in applied social science courses at the graduate or undergraduate levels to teach fundamental concepts, methods, and reproducible research practices. Get started by creating a free account and browsing…
A template README for social science replication packages
The template README follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals. A full list of endorsers is listed in Endorsers. The most recent version is available at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/. Specific releases can be found at https://github.com/social-science-data-editors/template_README/releases. The template README is available in a variety of formats, including HTML…
Shaon Lahiri
Shaon Lahiri is a social and behavioral scientist within the field of public health. He studies psychosocial processes across a number of behaviors that impact health, such as modern contraceptive use, intimate partner violence, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis use, and tobacco use. His expertise is in the measurement, operationalization, and analysis of social normative…
Hanqi Luo
Dr. Hanqi Luo is a Senior Biostatistician and Chair of the data management group for the Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) project at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. She received her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training in epidemiology/nutrition at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses…
Edel O’Hagan
Edel O’Hagan is a final year PhD candidate based in Sydney, Australia. She has a range of research and data management skills including qualitative and quantitative methods. She has a specific interest in understanding how health information is received by consumers. Edel’s current projects investigate what health information should we provide and…
Daniel Dunleavy
Daniel Dunleavy is a postdoctoral research fellow (Ph.D. in Social Work) at the Center for Translational Behavioral Science (CTBS) in the Florida State University College of Medicine. His focus is primarily on behavioral health care and public health policy. Beyond this, Daniel’s focus is on meta-research, open science, and data management. His…
Lab Manual for Jade Benjamin-Chung’s Lab
This is a lab manual for students and staff working with Jade Benjamin-Chung at Stanford University. Its goal is to support collaborative, transparent, and reproducible workflows and it contains guidance on tools and good practices in communications, coding, version control, and data sharing, among others. It also features an internal replication process…
Development of Research Transparency and Reproducibility Curriculum and Training Modules for Debre Markos University
Research Transparency and Reproducibility (RT2) curriculum and training manuals are essential to improve knowledge and skill towards RT2 like research ethics, scientific misconduct, pre-registration, and pre-analysis plans, computational reproducibility and approaches to replication, and data management. However, the lack of standard curriculums and training manuals in the areas of RT2 has been…
Advancing Transparency and Reproducibility in Constrained Contexts in Public Health
Public health practitioners frequently find themselves in a bind: faced with high volumes of data, frequent demands for non-standard analyses, and quick turnaround times, even the most rigorous and transparent workflows are not safe from analysis breakdown and miscommunication, something seen all-too-frequently during the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, there is a need to…
Ani Movsisyan
Ani completed her PhD at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, and is currently based at LMU Munich as a postdoctoral researcher. Her previous research has looked into methods of critical appraisal and certainty of evidence rating in systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the field of public health.…
Getachew Kassa
Dr. Getachew Mullu Kassa completed his PhD in Public Health/ Reproductive Health Sciences from the PAN African University Life and Earth Science Institute, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also obtained his Master of Science in Reproductive and Maternal Health Nursing from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and his Bachelor of Science in Nursing…
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Educational Expansion
Created by Catalyst Melissa Sharp, this is an open-source repository for epidemiological research methods and reporting skills for observational studies, structured based on the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement. Use it to discover new methods and reporting guidelines and contribute through the GitHub repository (https://github.com/sharpmel/STROBECourse/).
Yulia Shenderovich
Yulia completed her PhD at the Violence Research Centre, Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and is currently based at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher. Previously, she worked at RAND Europe, setting up and conducting evaluations of school-based programs, and at the University of Cambridge, looking at…
Mary Terzian
Joshua Polanin
Christopher M. Williams
Nicolas Henschke
Steven Kamper
Meta
Meta is an interactive search tool that indexes research in the biomedical sciences. Users can create personalized news feeds by selecting from a range of concepts, journals, preprints, or papers of interest.
A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption
Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. Attempts to persuade hoseholds to use more efficient solid-fuel cooking stoves have been mostly unsuccessful in reducing air pollution. We build on a new, nation-wide program in India that has provided…
Direct and Spillover Impacts of a Community-Level HIV/AIDS Program: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Mozambique
We study a prominent effort to help families cope with HIV/AIDS: a U.S. government-funded program in Mozambique implementing an interrelated set of health and education interventions. We report the results of a randomized evaluation of this program. We hypothesize that the program raises HIV testing rates by reducing imperfect information (related to…
Daniel Umpierre
Daniel is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He was trained in Kinesiology (exercise sciences), obtained MSc (2007) and PhD degrees (2012) in Health Sciences (Cardiovascular Sciences). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Science…
Mark van der Laan
Maya Petersen
Improving Reproducibility and Transparency Practices in Public Health Research in Mexico: A Working Group and Short Course
The Catalysts developed Standard Operating Procedures and established an institutional hub with resources for research transparency and reproducibility at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Mexico. The group also developed modular coursework for MSc in Public Health students, incorporating open science tools and practices in research design, data collection and…
Lily Alexander
Lily Alexander is an MPH student in Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. She worked at the Institute of Public Health in Mexico (INSP) in 2017, where she collaborated on a project to assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of reaching MSM through different HIV testing approaches. She has also…
Development of a Graduate Public Health Online Course in Research Integrity, Transparency, and Reproducibility
Location: Texas A&M University, USA There is now a growing recognition within the scientific community that flexibility in study design, data analysis, and the reporting of research findings is increasingly leading to the publication of misleading results that capitalize on chance and cannot be replicated. It has been suggested that the use…
Developing a Guideline for Reporting Mediation Analyses (AGReMA) in randomized trials and observational studies
June 2016-March 2017
Gina La Hera Fuentes
Investigation of Data Sharing Attitudes in the Context of a Meta-Analysis
June 2016 – March 2017
Melissa Sharp
Melissa is a doctoral research fellow at Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité and The University of Split as a part of the Methods in Research on Research (MiRoR) Project. Her PhD, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, focuses on reporting guidelines for observational studies (STROBE) and aims to increase the…
Jayne Tusiime
Jayne Tusiime is an Epidemiologist with a Pharmaceutical background and over fourteen years of experience in Research and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) in the sectors of HIV/AIDS; Tuberculosis; and Maternal, New Born, and Child Health. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2010 and has worked with several research organizations. She currently serves as…
Dennis M. Gorman
Dennis M. Gorman is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, Texas A&M University. He was trained in medical sociology in Great Britain, and received his PhD from the University of Essex in 1988. He became interested in issues pertaining to research integrity when…
Elaine Toomey
2016 Recipient of a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science: Emerging Researchers Category Elaine is a Health Research Board Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) post-doctoral research fellow based in the Health Behavior Change Research Group at the National University of Ireland Galway. She is currently involved in the development of a complex intervention…
Sean Grant
Sean Grant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. His research focused on evaluating psychosocial interventions and advancing the rigor of intervention research methods. He principally researches interventions for substance use, though he is passionate about…
Nancy Padian
Nancy Padian is an internationally recognized leader in the epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS and is an expert in related implementation science and health systems research. She is a senior technical advisor at the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator for the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and is a…
Cynthia Kroeger
Dr Kroeger is a postdoctoral fellow and interdisciplinary researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, based at the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC). She obtained her B.S. in Psychology and Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and her Ph.D. in Kinesiology and Nutrition from the University of Illinois at Chicago.…