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Expanding Role of Community Health Workers (CHWs): Bridging the Gap in Healthcare Access

Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a vital role in global health initiatives. Their significant contribution to tackling public health issues, especially in underserved communities, is invaluable. As they continue to evolve and expand their role in the healthcare sector, CHWs have become indispensable agents in fostering holistic well-being across diverse sociocultural contexts. A recent systematic […]

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Workforce

How Peer Support Workers Navigated Work-Life Boundaries During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to how we work and live, especially for those in the mental health sector. Peer Support Workers (PSWs), who provide essential support to individuals with mental health challenges, faced unique struggles as their roles shifted to remote work. A recent study sheds light on the work-life boundary challenges PSWs […]

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The Public Health Phoenix Rises

Well, hey. This is more or less a pre-post letting you know that we’ll be relaunching in the coming weeks focusing on the needs and concerns of public health. Our team has a bunch of GREAT stuff and features planned, all to get scientific information into the hands of public health professionals and practitioners. And […]

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PubTrawlr News

The closing days of Phase I for PubTrawlr

Hi all, The are going to be some gigantic changes to PubTrawlr in the coming months.  We have a number of technical and architectural improvements that will be rolling out. But most importantly, we are interested in hearing from you about what it will take to make science accessible. It is critically important that we […]

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PubTrawlr News

PubTrawlr is now over two times better

Let’s hit the talking points once again. Science is a public good. You, yes you, our reader, have a right to the information that is produced by researchers (nearly always funded with public funds). There is a moral imperative for us to do the best we can for people by using the best possible strategies. […]

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PubTrawlr News

Three takeaways from Day 1 of MLA

PubTrawlr is in New Orleans for the Medical Librarians’ Association 2022 conference. I mean, really. Two things that are right up our alley are medical research and the people who curate it. We were super stoked to share our story with a whole new group of people. And yeah, there were some bumps in the […]

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Commentary

Talking on The Psychologists Podcast

I was lucky enough to be asked to join Drs. Julia and Gill Strait to talk about community psychology, but also the ways in which implementation can be improved. And, hey!, that’s what we are trying to do here about PubTrawlr. Oh, but we covered so much more ground, including: Evolution of substance abuse treatment […]

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PubTrawlr News

PubTrawlr at TecBridgeBP20

We’ll have a lot to say about our TecBridge experience in the coming days; what we learned, what we tried about, and how we bounce back from disappointment. In the meanwhile, here’s an article about the event in the Times Leader. It’s pretty good, but I can’t help but wonder why the editor selected that […]

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PubTrawlr News

Extra! Extra! Read all about it: PubTrawlr hiring newsletter coordinator!

Looking for a couple of hours? PubTrawlr is hiring! We have a pretty active blog but we have vastly underutilized direct email marketing. We need a motivated and creative individual, with experience in Mailchimp or similar software platforms, to coordinate our direct outreach to potential customers. This person would: Design an email template for a […]

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Commentary

The Quality Implementation Framework: Round Two

Nearly ten years ago, I was part of a paper that attempted to distill syntheses of implementation frameworks down into a usable tool. And that tool was pretty good! You can still find it here, but you’ll have to do some of the paywall shenanigans to get at it. The syntheses paper itself is super […]

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