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Amelia (Amy) Van Pelt, PhD, MPH
@ameliavanpelt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Northwestern MSS & CDIS. Passionate about global health, implementation science, epidemiology, & infectious diseases.
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Big news! 🎉 Northwestern’s Dept of Medical Social Sciences & Univ of Botswana received a 3-year @NIMHgov grant to launch a youth suicide prevention initiative in Botswana, led by Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH & Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza, PhD. Read more: shorturl.at/hMp0L
Northwestern Researcher, Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH, Awarded NIMH Grant to Advance Youth Suicide Prevention in Botswana
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November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Kudos to Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH, who was invited by the Pan American Health Organization to be a key speaker at the Regional Workshop on Nursing and Midwifery Leadership which brought together more than 500 leaders from all over Latin America!
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣I’m thrilled to share that Northwestern is launching two new programs:

🔸Implementation Science Certificate (open to NU and non-NU constituents)
🔸MPH Concentration in Implementation Science

Applications for Fall 2026 now open!

It’s a privilege to serve as the Director of these initiatives.
September 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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World-class implementation science training that works with your schedule. Northwestern launches online implementation science certificate and MPH concentration. Now open to applications.

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Northwestern Launches New Online Certificate and MPH Concentration in Implementation Science
Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine has launched two new graduate offerings on advanced implementation science methodologies and design strategies.
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September 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Leaving Brazil full of energy after this week’s implementation science institute! Professionals from across the country came together to learn and apply IS with CEPPAR, Einstein & @anabaumann.bsky.social. Honored to be a part of this team!
June 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Congratulations to the faculty, staff, students and trainees who celebrated global health, education and outreach during the 6th annual Global Health Education Day!🎉

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June 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Congratulations to @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social faculty @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social, PhD, MPH and team on publishing this paper that uses the innovation tournament methodology to crowdsource ideas for implementation of long-acting PrEP in sexual minority men in Chicago! Read now: shorturl.at/suO5p
Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament - Implementation Science Communications
Background Reducing HIV incidence requires the effective implementation of evidence-based prevention practices. In Chicago, HIV disproportionately impacts sexual minority men (SMM). Long-acting inject...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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This was a fun project! Our team ran an innovation tournament to crowdsource ideas for injectable PrEP in Chicago. #impsci
May 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
So honored to have won Outstanding Global Health Educator of the Year at Northwestern!

Now, more than ever, we need to lift up the next gen of global health trainees.
May 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Miss last week’s seminar? Watch it here!

“Applying Implementation Science to Advance Public Health” with @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social
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Applying Implementation Science to Advance Public Health
A Translational Applications in Public Health lecture presented in partnership with Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Implementation science helps close the gap between research and practice. The field moves the needle to make sure people get the things that work. This talk will provide an overview of implementation science, highlight key terminology, and describe the impact on public health. Featuring: Amelia E. Van Pelt, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor, Medical Social Sciences Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine ----------------------------------------- Visit the Feinberg website: http://spr.ly/633242EbZI SUBSCRIBE: http://spr.ly/60073dxlv TWITTER (X): http://spr.ly/60003dxmj INSTAGRAM: http://spr.ly/60083dxWi FACEBOOK: http://spr.ly/60063dxW0 LINKEDIN: http://spr.ly/60063dxqG About Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois: Our mission is to impact the practice of medicine through discovery and education to improve human health.
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April 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
So proud of this team!!
Congratulations to the team of Northwestern University students and scholars who recently took third place in the 2025 Morningside International Global Health Case Competition at Emory University — bit.ly/3XUeKV7
April 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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"We recognize in the field that it's necessary to actually get interventions to folks. So there's been a great investment from leadership to really recruit implementation scientists," says Amy Van Pelt, PhD, MPH — bit.ly/Podcast-Van-...
March 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Implementation science helps close the gap between research and practice. On Thursday, April 10, Amy Van Pelt, PhD, MPH,
will provide an overview of the field, highlight key terminology, and describe its impact on public health during our next TAPH Lecture — bit.ly/TAPH-Van-Pelt
April 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Exciting news! A new grant from the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention supports a partnership between Northwestern University Department of Medical Social Sciences & global collaborators to adapt a suicide prevention package in Ethiopia. Congrats to the team! 🎉 Read more: shorturl.at/Xqp6M
SPONSORED RESEARCH: Implementation of a Suicide Prevention Package Co-Created with Lived-Experience Community Members in Ethiopia
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April 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Kudos to @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social, PhD, MPH, Lisa Hirschhorn, MD, MPH, and Kylie Dougherty, PhD, RN, for participating in the Stellenbosch University/Northwestern University Global Health Knowledge Hub Conference in South Africa!
March 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Through implementation science, NUCATS Institute accelerates interventions that improve health for all! On Science in Translation, @ameliavanpelt.bsky.social, PhD, MPH, discusses bridging research & practice. Listen here now: tinyurl.com/4xh3n85n
Bridging Gaps to Improve Global Health with Amy Van Pelt, PhD
Through implementation science, NUCATS is dedicated to accelerating and moving new interventions into impact that improves health for all. In this episode of Science in Translation, Amy Van Pelt, PhD,...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Students from across Northwestern’s schools convened to compete in an intramural Global Health Case Competition, hosted by the Havey Institute of Global Health and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Global Health Studies Program. Read more: shorturl.at/8dqPS
Students Compete in Intramural Global Health Case Competition
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January 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We hosted a global health case competition where multidisciplinary teams pitched innovative solutions to reduce childhood obesity in Mexico. It was SO fun!

Up next: International case comp with the winning team!

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Students Compete in Intramural Global Health Case Competition
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December 20, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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CDIS, our #ImpSci center at Northwestern, recently marked our 2nd birthday and we are celebrating in full force at the Academy Health #DIScience24 Conference! We have 82 faculty and staff giving 52 distinct presentations from plenaries to award nominees to Best of D&I! 🥳🎉

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December 9, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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If you make one more scary #impsci theory, model, or framework (to add to 143 and counting), I will cut you…

Celebrating an #impsci Happy Halloween 🎃 with the #CDIS Northwestern team
November 1, 2023 at 12:03 AM
Hi! Migrating over to the better app, so a quick intro- I'm an Assistant Prof at Northwestern. As an implementation scientist and epidemiologist, my work focuses on increasing uptake of EBPs for infectious diseases in resource-limited settings, primarily LMICs. Look forward to connecting!
October 3, 2023 at 6:47 PM