Penn State Distinguished Professor Dr. Linda Collins Presentation 9/29

The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for Developing More Effective, Efficient, Economical, and Scalable Behavioral and Biobehavioral Interventions

Thursday, September 29, 9:30 – 11:00am, Ramseyer 260

Director of The Methodology Center at Penn State, Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), and Professor of Statistics Linda Collins will present her groundbreaking work on adaptive designs and intervention optimization.

Behavioral and biobehavioral interventions (BBIs) are used widely for prevention and treatment of health problems, and for promotion of well-being and academic achievement.  BBIs are typically developed and evaluated using a treatment package approach, in which the intervention is assembled a priori and evaluated by means of a two-group randomized controlled trial (RCT).   Dr. Collins will describe an alternative framework for developing, optimizing, and evaluating BBIs.  This framework, called the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), is a principled approach that has been inspired by ideas from engineering.  Dr. Collins proposes that MOST offers more rapid long-run improvement of the effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and scalability of BBIs, without requiring a dramatic increase in research resources.

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