Our Work

The ACT center focuses on designing social and collaborative interventions to facilitate change. The components of these interventions and their determinants of success are being studied in different projects.

Examples of studies that include the ingredients of the ACT model:

NIH-Funded Projects

• The R01 study of Social Network Resilience in Patients with Advanced Cancer (MPI: Mohile, Epstein, Yousefi Nooraie).
  • Pathways to Resilience of Social Networks of Older Adults with Advanced Cancer
• R61/R33 study of THRIVE intervention, a person-centered social network intervention for patients with FASD, at Mount Hope Family Center (PI: Petrenko, Co-I: Yousefi Nooraie).
  • Developing a Scalable FASD-Informed Person-Centered Planning Intervention (5R61AA030780-02)
  • Developing a Scalable FASD-Informed Person-Centered Planning Intervention (1R61AA030780-01)

Pilots

• SONATA (SOcial Networks to Activate Teamwork & Alliance), a coaching intervention to activate and optimize the support networks of patients with advanced cancer, (MPI: Loh, Epstein, Yousefi Nooraie).
• PAIRS (Patient-Researcher Alliance for Inspiring Research Solutions), a participatory intervention to pair patient partners and researchers to build trust and plan for meaningful engagement in research.
  • How Can Community Influence Research? Community-Based Participatory Research Day Had the Answer