Shoba Ramanadhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 2144917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shoba Ramanadhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shoba |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramanadhan |
| SIGNATURE | RAMANADHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0650-9433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring changes in high school teachers' culturally sustaining pedagogy after training for and implementing an ethnic-racial identity curriculum
From classroom to community
barrier for CBO practitioners to use EBIs is a lack of access to opportunities to build the knowledge and skills needed to successfully implement EBIs [7]. While many CBO staff members have rich knowledge of communities' strengths and needs, they often lack sufficient training in public health theory or evidence-based practice [4].Current efforts to build CBO capacity (or skills, motivations, knowledge, and resources [8] for EBI use are often ins…
Centering LGBTQ+ youth of color “explicitly, unequivocally, and without apology” to deliver culturally and structurally responsive, evidence-based mental health services
Introduction LGBTQ+ youth of color face profound mental health inequities driven by intersecting systems of oppression, including racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Community-based organizations (CBOs) can mitigate this, but their impact is hindered by contextual constraints and a culturally unresponsive evidence base that tends to privilege individual-level interventions and restrictive definitions of effectiveness. Methods We conducted a thre…
Unpacking rural Heterogeneity
Addressing rural BrCa screening inequities requires more than generic rural interventions; this study demonstrates that inequities may manifest differently across rural types, with distinct underlying dynamics shaping barriers. By showing how contextual variation influences health behaviors, this proof-of-concept study underscores the importance of disaggregating rural populations in health research and tailoring interventions to the specific mec…
Equipping Educators for Equity Through Ethnic‐Racial Identity Curriculum
Professional development (PD) to help teachers learn to use curriculum materials can be effective in aiding fidelity of implementation and supporting student learning. PD may be particularly necessary for curricula focused on students' ethnic‐racial identities, given educators' potential discomfort and limited formal training focused on strategies for discussing race/ethnicity in class. The Equipping Educators for Equity through Ethnic‐Racial Ide…
Reconceptualizing rurality
We identified different types of rurality at the census tract level that fall along a social gradient as indicated by variation in SVI percentile rankings. These findings highlight that each rural class has a unique combination of community capitals. This nuanced approach to conceptualizing rurality provides the opportunity to identify interventions that meet specific rural communities' unique strengths and needs
The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity
Multi-sector efforts to address the structural drivers of health inequities faced by racial and ethnic minority communities in the USA often ignore the potential of action by for-profit businesses, perhaps due to skepticism about the role of business in such efforts. However, given the need to harness diverse forms of capital to address structural harms, and recent calls to identify oft-ignored systemic pathways to health, we examined the role of…
Associations between sociodemographic factors and receiving "ask and advise" services from healthcare providers in India
This study offers a helpful starting point in identifying opportunities to address a critical service delivery gap in India. Given the existing burden on the public health and health systems, scale-up will require innovative, resource-appropriate solutions. The findings also point to the need to center equity in the design and scale-up of tobacco cessation supports so that marginalized and underserved groups will have equitable access to these cr…
Network-Based Delivery and Sustainment of Evidence-Based Prevention in Community-Clinical Partnerships Addressing Health Equity
Background: Increased delivery of evidence-based preventive services can improve population health and increase health equity. Community-clinical partnerships offer particular promise, but delivery and sustainment of preventive services through these systems face several challenges related to service integration and collaboration. We used a social network analysis perspective to explore a) the range of contributions made by community-clinical par…
Exploring attitudes of adolescents and caregivers towards community-based delivery of the HPV vaccine
The study highlights an opportunity for increasing HPV vaccination among some racial and ethnic minority populations by leveraging trusted community organizations to provide information and seed conversations with a potentially broad group of trusted providers. A task-shifting approach, or reliance on staff with fewer formal credentials, may offer opportunities to support vaccination in resource-constrained settings
Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations
Ongoing capacity-building supports may promote EBP planning in CBOs, but institutional constraints may limit practitioners' ability to engage with such supports
Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations
Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations Shoba Ramanadhan, ScD, MPH, David Aronstein, MSW, Vilma Martinez-Dominguez, Ziming Xuan, ScD, SM, MA, and K. Viswanath, PhD What Is the Purpose of this Study? • To use a community-based participatory research approach to design, deliver, and evaluate an intervention to build capacity in community-based orga…
Graphic health warnings as activators of social networks
Much Ventured, Much Gained
Investments required to support engaged data collection were larger than anticipated, as were the rewards, prompting greater attention to the integration of adolescents and young adults in research efforts
Health Information Seeking
Introduction When does a parent decide whether a child’s fever is high and persistent enough to go to the emergency room? Is that allergy medicine shown on TV commercials eff ective? How does a patient decide which available treatment option is better for her? The growing complexity of the information environment and the choices one is expected to exercise have set the bar high for public and patient health engagement. Engagement implicitly assum…
Recruitment and Retention for Community-Based eHealth Interventions with Populations of Low Socioeconomic Position
Given persistent communication inequalities, it is important to develop interventions to improve Internet and health literacy among underserved populations. These goals drove the Click to Connect (C2C) project, a community-based eHealth intervention that provided novice computer users of low socioeconomic position (SEP) with broadband Internet access, training classes, a Web portal, and technical support. In this paper, we describe the strategies…
Social media use by community-based organizations conducting health promotion
Much of the use of social media tools appeared to be uni-directional, a flow of information from the organization to the audience. By better leveraging opportunities for interaction and user engagement, these organizations can reap greater benefits from the non-trivial investment required to use social media well. Future research should assess links between use patterns and organizational characteristics, staff perspectives, and audience engageme…
Educating leaders in hospital management
Despite recent focus on health systems strengthening, few studies report large-scale efforts to improve hospital management capacity in low-income countries, a central component of improving health care delivery. We sought to assess the contributions of a systems-based approach, the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative (EHMI), which established hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) trained through a Masters of Healthcare and Hospital Admin…
Social Disparities, Communication Inequalities, and HIV/Aids-Related Knowledge and Attitudes in India
Mass Media
Equipping Educators for Equity Through Ethnic‐Racial Identity Curriculum
Professional development (PD) to help teachers learn to use curriculum materials can be effective in aiding fidelity of implementation and supporting student learning. PD may be particularly necessary for curricula focused on students' ethnic‐racial identities, given educators' potential discomfort and limited formal training focused on strategies for discussing race/ethnicity in class. The Equipping Educators for Equity through Ethnic‐Racial Ide…
Graphic health warnings as activators of social networks
Much Ventured, Much Gained
Investments required to support engaged data collection were larger than anticipated, as were the rewards, prompting greater attention to the integration of adolescents and young adults in research efforts
Mass Media
Educating leaders in hospital management
Despite recent focus on health systems strengthening, few studies report large-scale efforts to improve hospital management capacity in low-income countries, a central component of improving health care delivery. We sought to assess the contributions of a systems-based approach, the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative (EHMI), which established hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) trained through a Masters of Healthcare and Hospital Admin…
Social Disparities, Communication Inequalities, and HIV/Aids-Related Knowledge and Attitudes in India
Recruitment and Retention for Community-Based eHealth Interventions with Populations of Low Socioeconomic Position
Given persistent communication inequalities, it is important to develop interventions to improve Internet and health literacy among underserved populations. These goals drove the Click to Connect (C2C) project, a community-based eHealth intervention that provided novice computer users of low socioeconomic position (SEP) with broadband Internet access, training classes, a Web portal, and technical support. In this paper, we describe the strategies…
Social media use by community-based organizations conducting health promotion
Much of the use of social media tools appeared to be uni-directional, a flow of information from the organization to the audience. By better leveraging opportunities for interaction and user engagement, these organizations can reap greater benefits from the non-trivial investment required to use social media well. Future research should assess links between use patterns and organizational characteristics, staff perspectives, and audience engageme…
Health Information Seeking
Introduction When does a parent decide whether a child’s fever is high and persistent enough to go to the emergency room? Is that allergy medicine shown on TV commercials eff ective? How does a patient decide which available treatment option is better for her? The growing complexity of the information environment and the choices one is expected to exercise have set the bar high for public and patient health engagement. Engagement implicitly assum…
Much Ventured, Much Gained
Investments required to support engaged data collection were larger than anticipated, as were the rewards, prompting greater attention to the integration of adolescents and young adults in research efforts
Graphic health warnings as activators of social networks
Network-Based Delivery and Sustainment of Evidence-Based Prevention in Community-Clinical Partnerships Addressing Health Equity
Background: Increased delivery of evidence-based preventive services can improve population health and increase health equity. Community-clinical partnerships offer particular promise, but delivery and sustainment of preventive services through these systems face several challenges related to service integration and collaboration. We used a social network analysis perspective to explore a) the range of contributions made by community-clinical par…
Exploring attitudes of adolescents and caregivers towards community-based delivery of the HPV vaccine
The study highlights an opportunity for increasing HPV vaccination among some racial and ethnic minority populations by leveraging trusted community organizations to provide information and seed conversations with a potentially broad group of trusted providers. A task-shifting approach, or reliance on staff with fewer formal credentials, may offer opportunities to support vaccination in resource-constrained settings
Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations
Ongoing capacity-building supports may promote EBP planning in CBOs, but institutional constraints may limit practitioners' ability to engage with such supports
Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations
Designing Capacity-Building Supports to Promote Evidence-Based Programs in Community-Based Organizations Working with Underserved Populations Shoba Ramanadhan, ScD, MPH, David Aronstein, MSW, Vilma Martinez-Dominguez, Ziming Xuan, ScD, SM, MA, and K. Viswanath, PhD What Is the Purpose of this Study? • To use a community-based participatory research approach to design, deliver, and evaluate an intervention to build capacity in community-based orga…
Associations between sociodemographic factors and receiving "ask and advise" services from healthcare providers in India
This study offers a helpful starting point in identifying opportunities to address a critical service delivery gap in India. Given the existing burden on the public health and health systems, scale-up will require innovative, resource-appropriate solutions. The findings also point to the need to center equity in the design and scale-up of tobacco cessation supports so that marginalized and underserved groups will have equitable access to these cr…
The role of small, locally-owned businesses in advancing community health and health equity
Multi-sector efforts to address the structural drivers of health inequities faced by racial and ethnic minority communities in the USA often ignore the potential of action by for-profit businesses, perhaps due to skepticism about the role of business in such efforts. However, given the need to harness diverse forms of capital to address structural harms, and recent calls to identify oft-ignored systemic pathways to health, we examined the role of…
Reconceptualizing rurality
We identified different types of rurality at the census tract level that fall along a social gradient as indicated by variation in SVI percentile rankings. These findings highlight that each rural class has a unique combination of community capitals. This nuanced approach to conceptualizing rurality provides the opportunity to identify interventions that meet specific rural communities' unique strengths and needs
Unpacking rural Heterogeneity
Addressing rural BrCa screening inequities requires more than generic rural interventions; this study demonstrates that inequities may manifest differently across rural types, with distinct underlying dynamics shaping barriers. By showing how contextual variation influences health behaviors, this proof-of-concept study underscores the importance of disaggregating rural populations in health research and tailoring interventions to the specific mec…
Equipping Educators for Equity Through Ethnic‐Racial Identity Curriculum
Professional development (PD) to help teachers learn to use curriculum materials can be effective in aiding fidelity of implementation and supporting student learning. PD may be particularly necessary for curricula focused on students' ethnic‐racial identities, given educators' potential discomfort and limited formal training focused on strategies for discussing race/ethnicity in class. The Equipping Educators for Equity through Ethnic‐Racial Ide…
Exploring changes in high school teachers' culturally sustaining pedagogy after training for and implementing an ethnic-racial identity curriculum
From classroom to community
barrier for CBO practitioners to use EBIs is a lack of access to opportunities to build the knowledge and skills needed to successfully implement EBIs [7]. While many CBO staff members have rich knowledge of communities' strengths and needs, they often lack sufficient training in public health theory or evidence-based practice [4].Current efforts to build CBO capacity (or skills, motivations, knowledge, and resources [8] for EBI use are often ins…
Centering LGBTQ+ youth of color “explicitly, unequivocally, and without apology” to deliver culturally and structurally responsive, evidence-based mental health services
Introduction LGBTQ+ youth of color face profound mental health inequities driven by intersecting systems of oppression, including racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Community-based organizations (CBOs) can mitigate this, but their impact is hindered by contextual constraints and a culturally unresponsive evidence base that tends to privilege individual-level interventions and restrictive definitions of effectiveness. Methods We conducted a thre…
Medicine (10 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Public health (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (5 works)