Research Insights

Landscape of Science Communication in the Video Content Creation Community

View the Resource By Reyhaneh Maktoufi In order for science media to thrive in an environment where science misinformation is prevalent – more than ever communicators need tools to be effective in reaching audiences. Researchers in science communication have developed best-practices approaches that can be extremely useful. Connecting researchers in science communication and practitioners including science filmmakers can lead to research that is more applicable and impactful and relevant to

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The Landscape of Science Communication in the Video Content Creation Community: Connecting Research to Practice

By Reyhaneh Maktoufi If you turn on the TV, some channel is likely broadcasting a nature documentary. If you look it up on YouTube, you can watch a long- or short-form documentary film or show on almost any topic in science. Science documentaries are a powerful tool to change attitudes and behaviors if used correctly. The Blackfish, for example, is a 2013 documentary that brought attention to captive killer whales

Effectiveness of a Culturally Competent Care Intervention in Reducing Disparities in Hispanic Live Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Hybrid Trial

View the Resource By Elisa J. Gordon, Jefferson J. Uriarte, Jungwha Lee, Raymong Kang, Michelle Shumate, Richard Ruiz, Amit K. Mathur, Daniela P. Ladner, Juan Carlos Caicedo Hispanic patients receive disproportionately fewer living donor kidney transplants (LDKTs) than non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs). The Northwestern Medicine Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program (HKTP), designed to increase Hispanic LDKTs, was evaluated as a nonrandomized, implementation-effectiveness hybrid trial of patients initiating transplant evaluation at two intervention and

Networks for Social Impact

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Katherine R. Cooper A broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems, Networks for Social Impact takes a systems approach to explain how and when networks make a social impact. Michelle Shumate and Katherine R. Cooper argue that network design and management is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, they show that the type of social issue, the mechanism

Interorganizational Network Change

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Zachary Gibson This chapter examines current theorizing and research on interorganizational network change, and considers its antecedents, processes, outcomes, and management. We perform a systematic review of this literature across several disciplines, including communication, management, organization studies, public administration, and technology studies. Combining the frameworks laid out by Kilduff and Tsai (2003) and Van de Ven and Poole (1995), we demonstrate that the process

Research Summary: Implementing Culturally Competent Transplant Care and Implications for Reducing Health Disparities

By Brett Mayfield Health inequalities continue to pose a significant public health problem, so nonprofit leaders often must intervene with this challenge head-on. However, these interventions are usually not widely practiced or not delivered as initially planned, even though effective evidence-based interventions are available today. Unfortunately, ongoing inequalities continue in the public health sphere because organizations often face significant barriers to implementing these interventions. To confront these health disparities,