Intervention Optimization: Integrations with Implementation Science and Decision Science

Kate Guastaferro, PhD
New York University

Jillian Strayhorn, PhD
New York University

ABSTRACT:
For behavioral and biobehavioral interventions to be capable of meaningful public health impact, they must be not only effective but also readily implementable. In this presentation, we discuss this idea of ready implementability, and we show how intervention optimization using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) can be applied to arrive at interventions that achieve a strategic balance of effectiveness and ready implementability. We also highlight new advances in MOST that are rooted in the fields of (i) implementation science and (ii) decision science.