In this episode, Karma Chávez interviews Dr. Rubén Parra-Cardona about his recent co-authored study about the importance of faith-based organizations in taking leadership roles in implementing physical and mental health care initiatives.
Dr. Parra-Cardona discusses his recent work that advocates for the importance of faith-based organizations in taking leadership roles in implementing physical and mental health care initiatives. Dr. Parra-Cardona explains how the field of “implementation science,” or “the study of methods and strategies to promote the uptake of interventions that have proven effective into routine practice, with the aim of improving population health,” has been woefully ineffective in accounting for disparities and discrimination faced by marginalized groups such as Latinx immigrants. He also offers an example from his work with a parenting program to make a case for the need to consider faith-based groups as vital implementation partners, even as faith-based groups are still growing in their commitments to some progressive social issues.
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Ruben Parra-Cardona, Ph.D. Profile
This episode of LatinXperts was mixed and mastered by Ean Herrera.