Linda M. Collins, Ph.D., is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Global Public Health at New York University. Prof. Collins’s research interests include the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), an engineering-inspired methodological framework for optimizing and evaluating behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions. The objective of MOST is to improve intervention effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and scalability. Prof. Collins is currently collaborating on research applying MOST to develop optimized behavioral interventions in the areas of smoking cessation, prevention of excessive drinking and risky sex in college students, and HIV services.
Her research has been funded by the United States National Science Foundation and four different institutes with the United States National Institutes of Health. Prof. Collins is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Society for Prevention Research. She is a past president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology and the Society for Prevention Research. She has delivered more than 140 invited presentations and workshops on MOST around the world.
Professor Collins will deliver this year's Valkhof Lecture, entitled:Building more effective, efficient, affordable, and practical interventions: The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST)
Leerdoelen: De Valkhof Lezing van Professor Linda Collins gaat over haar onderzoeksinteresse: de meerfasige optimalisatiestrategie (MOST) een technisch geïnspireerd methodologisch raamwerk voor het optimaliseren en evalueren van gedragsmatige, bio-gedrags en biomedische interventies met als doel de doeltreffendheid, efficiëntie, economie en schaalbaarheid van interventies te verbeteren.
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