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Ramanadhan Lab 

The Ramanadhan Lab focuses on supporting community-based organizations to connect research- and practice- based evidence to advance health equity.  

Location

Kresge, Room 617
677 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

Recent Open Access Publications

Principles of Community Engagement, 3rd Ed, CDC. (2025)

Reconceptualizing Rurality: Exploring Community Capital to Identify Distinct Rural Classes in the United States Social Science and Medicine. (2025)

Differing conceptual maps of skills for using evidence-based interventions held by community-based organization practitioners and academics: A multi-dimensional scaling comparison. (2025)

Planning for dissemination for participatory community-engaged research: A dissemination curriculum and planning protocol. (2025)

Assessing equitable implementation of a social care initiative integrating medical and social services for high-risk, high-need patients. (2025)

Design for Dissemination: Leaders Suggest Local Strategies for Implementing a Health Communications Campaign. (2025)

Anti-industry beliefs and attitudes mediate the effect of culturally tailored anti-smoking messages on quit intentions among sexual minority women. (2024)

Advancing and strengthening the study of social networks in community-level dissemination and implementation research: A narrative review. (2024)

Improving dissemination products and practices for community-based organizations serving LGBTQ+ communities in the US: A thematic analysis. (2024)

Adapting and Evaluating a Brief Advice Tobacco Cessation Intervention in High-reach, Low-resource Settings in India: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. (2024)

Culturally tailored anti-smoking messages: A randomized trial with U.S. sexual minority young women. (2024)

Maximizing the impact of community outreach and engagement at US cancer centers. (2024)

Using participatory implementation science to advance health equity. (2024)

The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity: A qualitative exploration in a historically Black neighborhood. (2023)

Implementation of evidence-based primary cancer prevention interventions in MA community health centers: An explanatory sequential mixed methods study. (2023)

Priority skills for equity-focused, evidence-based cancer control in community-based organizations: A group concept mapping analysis with academics and practitioners. (2023)

Similar skills, different frames: a thematic analysis exploring conceptualizations held by community-based organization practitioners and academics regarding skills to use evidence-based interventions to address cancer inequities. (2023)

“We’re always an afterthought”- Designing tobacco control campaigns for uptake by LGBTQ+ – serving organizations: A thematic analysis. (2023)

Ea$ing into the USA: study protocol for adapting the Economic and Social Empowerment (EA$E) intervention for US-based, forcibly based populations. (2022)

Implementing interventions to start HPV vaccination at age 9: Using the evidence we have. (2022)

Associations between sociodemographic factors and receiving “ask and advise” services from healthcare providers in India: Analysis of the national GATS-2 dataset. (2022)

Grounding Implementation Science in Health Equity for Cancer Prevention and Control. (2022)

Measuring capacity to use evidence-based interventions in community-based organizations: A comprehensive, scoping review. (2022)

Enabling community input to improve equity in and access to translational research: The Community Coalition for Equity in Research. (2022)

Overlooked potential of business-inclusive networks to amplify anchoring activity impact. (2022)

Collaboration networks of the implementation science centers for cancer control: a social network analysis. (2022)

A model for sustainable, partnership-based telehealth services in rural India: An early process evaluation from Tuver village, Gujarat. (2022)

Qualitative Research Methods in Chronic Disease: Introduction and Opportunities to Promote Health Equity. (2022)

The Prevalence of Dissemination and Implementation Research and Training Grants at National Cancer Institute–Designated Cancer Centers. (2022)

Connecting implementation science, community-engaged research, and health promotion to address cancer inequities in Massachusetts: The UMB/DF-HCC U54 Outreach Core. (2022)

Aligning Implementation Science with Improvement Practice: A Call to Action. (2021)

Strategy in the Time of Pandemics, Climate Change, and the Kurzweil Singularity. (2021)

Disparities in HPV knowledge by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic position: Trusted sources for the dissemination of HPV information. (2021)

Pragmatic approaches to analyzing qualitative data for implementation science: An introduction. (2021)

Factors Influencing Implementation of a Workplace Tobacco Cessation Intervention in India: A Qualitative Exploration. (2021)

The intersection of dissemination research and acupuncture: Applications for chronic low back pain. (2021)

Community Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Introducing Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Biobanking Evidence-Based Programs Within Medically Underserved Communities: A Community-Engaged Approach. (2021)

Improvement Science and Implementation Science in Cancer Care: Identifying Areas of Synergy and Opportunities for Further Integration. (2021)

Key considerations for designing capacity-building interventions to support evidence-based programming in underserved communities: A qualitative exploration. (2021)

Exploring attitudes of adolescents and caregivers towards community-based delivery of the HPV vaccine: A qualitative study. (2020)

Network-based delivery and sustainment of evidence-based prevention  in community-clinical partnerships addressing health equity: A qualitative exploration. (2020)

Designing capacity-building supports to promote evidence-based programs in community-based organizations working with underserved populations. (2020)

Support Harvard Chan School

Every gift contributes to our mission of building a world in which everyone can thrive. If you would like to support the Ramanadhan Lab and community-engaged knowledge translation, you can click on the button below. Under “Select a Fund,” please choose “Other” and type in “Ramanadhan Lab” under “Other Fund Name.” To learn more about our work, our trainees, and the community-based organizations we work with, please contact Morgan Mulhern at morganmulhern@hsph.harvard.edu. We are immensely grateful for your support.