Multilevel interventions are essential for addressing complex societal challenges, such as systemic racism in educational institutions, but they present unique evaluation challenges. These interventions inherently operate across multiple levels of influence, such as schools and families, with components that often interact. Traditional study designs typically assess these interventions as a package, making it difficult to disentangle and understand the synergistic effects of the individual components. This talk presents a study design and corresponding analytic methods that enable a more nuanced understanding of the potential synergy occurring between intervention components of a hypothetical multilevel intervention promoting mental health in school systems. 

Dr. Marta I. Mulawa is an assistant professor at the Duke University School of Nursing, with a secondary appointment at the Duke Global Health Institute. She is also a scholar at the Duke University Population Research Institute. Dr. Mulawa earned her M.H.S. in social and behavioral interventions from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, followed by a Ph.D. in health behavior from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. With over 15 years of experience in NIH-funded social and behavioral intervention research, Dr. Mulawa focuses on addressing health disparities in low-resource settings, particularly related to HIV prevention and treatment. She has extensive experience working on teams conducting community-randomized and cluster-randomized trials. Currently, her research focuses on developing and testing a digital health intervention to improve treatment adherence among youth living with HIV in South Africa.

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