University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
About the Webinar
The need for equitable approaches to ensure that all Americans have the best opportunity for good health requires population level health interventions that are effective and can be disseminated broadly and sustained over time. Multilevel interventions delivered in community settings hold the most promise for health promotion and disease prevention efforts because of their attention to broader community systems that increase the reach and sustainability of efforts. In this seminar, a four phase, stepwise approach for designing new and adapting existing community-based interventions will be presented. This approach highlights the need for community involvement in each phase of the process.
This talk focuses on two of the four phases of the design process, the Plan and Create phases, and describes how intervention teams identify the most impactful determinants to focus intervention efforts on as well as how to choose intervention components and strategies that have the greatest potential to impact change. Guidance on using the design process to adapt existing evidence-based interventions is also be discussed. Other intervention-related approaches, including Michie’s behavior change wheel and taxonomy and Collins’ approach for optimizing interventions using MOST is also discussed in relationship to this design approach.
About Leslie Lytle
Dr. Leslie Lytle is an Adjunct Professor of Health Behavior and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) and in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her research over the past three decades has centered on designing and evaluating multilevel interventions to promote community health. She has been the Principal Investigator on several large, NIH-funded, community intervention studies including CATCH (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)), TEENS (National Cancer Institute), TAAG (NHBLI), and CHOICES (NHLBI). She has published more than 240 articles in the peer-review literature and taught courses to masters and doctoral students on theories of health behavior change, designing community interventions, and behavioral and social aspects of health. She is the author of “Designing Interventions to Promote Community Health: A Multilevel, Stepwise Approach” published by the American Psychological Association in 2022.
Dr. Lytle received a B.S. in medical dietetics from the Pennsylvania State University, a master’s degree in education from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan. She did postdoctoral training in Cardiovascular Health Behavior at the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. She was chair of the Department of Health Behavior at UNC from 2012–2017.