This Wednesday, HDIL team members traveled to Shreveport, Louisiana to lead a group model‑building workshop with local healthcare providers. Thirteen doctors, nurses, and patient coordinators came together to examine the current survivorship care system for childhood cancer survivors in Shreveport. This session is part of a broader series of workshops with providers, patients, and families […]
HDIL Co-Director, Sara Malone, participated in the Improving Outcomes for Children with Serious Illness through Applied Qualitative Research webinar hosted by The Lancet. The webinar took place on World Cancer Day in the wake of a 2-day symposium at St. Jude Children’s Hospital n collaboration with The Lancet Oncology. During the webinar, expert panelists reviewed […]
The Health Design & Impact Lab welcomes new students for Spring 2026! Learn more about the newest HDIL team members below: Ankeeta Saseetharran Ankeeta Saseetharran is a doctoral student at WashU School of Public Health. Her research interests are in cardiometabolic disease prevention, particularly for under-resourced communities. She’s interested in using implementation science and mixed-methods […]
On Wednesday, November 12, Sara Malone gave a talk on how systems shape pediatric healthcare delivery and the experience of children and their families. She discussed major challenges in care delivery, including fragmentation, communication breakdowns, and low-quality care. Her talk emphasized the importance of building more coordinated, data-informed, and compassionate healthcare systems for children.
Health Design & Impact Lab Co-director Sara Malone was recently interviewed for the School of Public Health’s Public Health People feature. In her interview, Malone discusses her passion for pediatric healthcare and importance of utilizing implementation science when adapting evidence-based interventions.
Dennis Dela Tsagli presented his research at Washington University School of Medicine’s Diabetes Day Symposium 2025 on November 6, 2025, held at the Eric P. Newman Education Center. His poster, “A Silent Complication: Sex-Stratified Association Between Diabetes and Hearing Loss in Older Adults,” received the Outstanding Poster Award in the Clinical and Translational Science category. […]
The poster “Evidence-based Care at Your Fingertips: The Adapted Resource and Implementation Application (ARIA) Guide Interactive Portal for Comprehensive Childhood Cancer Management” received an award at the annual Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses conference. The poster presented work by the St. Jude Global and Washington University teams on the ARIA Guide, an interactive, web-based tool that delivers resource-adapted, […]
On September 18th, PREVENT Project Manager Angeline Gacad conducted a successful site visit at one of Missouri Highlands Healthcare’s clinics. The visit was focused on understanding the clinic’s unique culture and workflow to collaboratively create the most seamless on-site enrollment processes. Angeline attended all clinic meetings and provided targeted, hands-on training. She guided the Community […]
This summer, the Health Design & Impact Lab welcomed new student researchers, practicum students, and doctoral student researchers. Learn more about the new HDIL team members below: Ahmed Ghani Ahmed Ghani is a rising third-year undergraduate medical student at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, with aspirations to pursue a career in academic surgery. He […]
HDIL Director Sara Malone traveled this Spring to Nairobi, Kenya to participate in the Sub Saharan Africa Regional Meeting in collaboration with the St. Jude Global Alliance. Malone worked with collaborators on projects related to survivorship, patient navigation, and stigma in childhood cancer.
HDIL Director Maura Kepper was featured in the WashU School of Public Health Public Health Ideas. In this segment, Dean Galea and Dr. Kepper discussed a paper Kepper co-authored: “Multilevel factors influence the use of a cardiovascular disease assessment tool embedded in the electronic health record in oncology care.” The paper can be read here: […]
The HDIL continues its efforts to understand and strengthen global survivorship care systems. On July 22nd, we hosted a workshop to refine a system dynamics model focused on survivorship care. This model was previously developed through a series of group model building sessions with St. Jude, convening clinicians, foundations, and other stakeholders dedicated to improving […]
The Health Design & Impact Lab has launched a new project with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to develop accessible survivorship care guidelines through the ARIA Guide, a tool designed to adapt best-practice recommendations to local resource settings. On July 28th, HDIL held our first co-design session with 12 oncologists from 12 countries who provided […]
At the Brown School’s Research Without Walls 2025, Dennis Tsagli, a Master of Public Health candidate, earned first place for his poster presentation titled “Diabetes and Hearing Loss in Older Adults – A Silent Complication.” Using nationally representative data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Dennis investigated the association between diabetes and hearing loss, […]
On Friday, March 28, Health Design & Impact Lab Co-Director, Dr. Maura Kepper, led a panel at the Society for Behavioral Medicine’s annual conference in San Francisco, California. Dr. Kepper spoke on approaches to designing digital interventions that promote equal opportunities for success. The panel discussed current strategies, challenges, and future directions of digital health […]