Author Archives: Suzanne L. West, Craig Lefebvre, Lauren A. McCormack, Olivia Burrus, and Paula Rausch

About Suzanne L. West, Craig Lefebvre, Lauren A. McCormack, Olivia Burrus, and Paula Rausch

Olivia Burrus is a behavior change researcher passionate about improving health and wellbeing through innovative, theory-driven solutions and human-centered design. In 2011, she received her Master's in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Presently, Ms. Burrus is working in RTI International's Center for Communication Science where she conducts research and evaluations of communications materials, social marketing campaigns and behavior change innovations across a variety of subject areas including HIV, informed decision making, patient-provider communication, risk communication, health literacy, financial literacy, and global health.

How do physicians learn about new medication safety information?

By | September 26, 2019
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Physicians and other providers are the gatekeepers for prescription medicines; they decide who, under what circumstances, and for how long someone takes one – or several – medicines. But how do physicians stay abreast of the latest research about the safety and efficacy of the medicines they prescribe? We set out to understand how they… Read More »

Five principles for developing digital clinic-based, behavior-change health interventions

By | January 16, 2018
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 In this post, we describe five principles that guided the development of Positive Health Check, a clinic-based digital health intervention for HIV-positive patients, aimed at making it acceptable and feasible in a clinic setting.