James Merle
drjlmerle.bsky.social
James Merle
@drjlmerle.bsky.social
Implementation researcher at the University of Utah; fly fisher
See our new scoping review of Dissemination Strategies used to improve the Reach of evidence-based practices, led by Dr. Paul Estabrooks:

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Frontiers | Identifying recruitment strategies to improve the reach of evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention, and disease self-management interventions: a scoping review
www.frontiersin.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
In a time when health equity research is being demonized, our teams continue to champion it and demonstrate its importance in community-engaged research. See our meta-framework published online today bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
IM4Equity: an implementation science meta-framework for community-engaged partnerships to advance health equity - BMC Health Services Research
Background Implementation determinant frameworks identify factors that may impede or facilitate implementation of evidence-based innovations (EBI) in new contexts, including diverse community settings...
bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Reposted by James Merle
(Me flirting) Did you know microbes in the human body contribute MORE to the human body’s survival than our bodies themselves? And there are more microbial genes than human in our bodies?

We just big ol’ walkin’ terrariums.

The sauce:
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
NIH Human Microbiome Project defines normal bacterial makeup of the body
Genome sequencing creates first reference data for microbes living with healthy adults.
www.nih.gov
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I got Married today! ...and then doge defunded our Utah CTSA.
March 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
February 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM