Amelia (Amy) Van Pelt, PhD, MPH
@AmeliaVanPelt
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Assistant Professor at Northwestern MSS & CDIS. Passionate about global health, implementation science, epidemiology, & infectious diseases.
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2018
📣Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor @NUFeinbergMed Sept 1! Beyond lucky to join the incredible crew of #impsci scholars @nu_ipham Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science & @MSSatNU! Excited to grow IS & global health! The place to be💜
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I feel like crap. I didn’t get any grants this year, so I had to let go of my super talented postdoc—someone with a doctorate who’s now unemployed, without benefits or retirement, and still grinding away on a paper... Postdocs are the most unappreciated and undervalued positions
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Big news! 🎉 Northwestern’s Dept of Medical Social Sciences & Univ of Botswana received a 3-year @NIMHgov grant to launch a youth suicide prevention initiative in Botswana, led by Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH & Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza, PhD. Read more:
mss.northwestern.edu
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There’s no health without mental health. In Ethiopia, @AmerAcadPeds, @EPS_Pediatrics, @NationwideKids & @NUFeinbergMed are training pediatricians to prevent youth suicide through compassionate, evidence-based care. 💙 #WorldMentalHealthDay #GlobalHealth
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Exciting #impsci news: @NUFeinbergMed recently launched two new IS-focused training opportunities: ~Implementation Science in Public Health and Medicine Certificate ~Master of Public Health with concentration in Implementation Science https://t.co/bHEtwfDman
feinberg.northwestern.edu
Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine has launched two new graduate offerings on advanced implementation science methodologies and design strategies.
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Kudos to Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH who was invited by the Pan American Health Organization to be a key speaker at the Regional Workshop on Nursing and Midwifery Leadership which brought together more than 500 leaders from all over Latin America!
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𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐞! CAB-LA, the long-acting HIV prevention injection, is now FREE in Botswana. No daily pills. Just a quick injection every 2months and you’re protected. You can now access CAB-LA at the following facilities: 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞
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This week in Addis Ababa, we are meeting with our partners and Community Advisory Board to engage in human-centered design to adapt #SuicidePrevention strategies to meet the needs of Ethiopian youth. #GlobalHealth
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INSPIRE update: We’re adapting our youth #SuicidePrevention package in #Ethiopia using the ADAPT-ITT model. 📄 Interviews with leaders & lived experience 📊 Rapid data extraction by local team 👥 Review by global experts ➡️ Next: Community co-design workshop in Addis Ababa
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Honored to be a part of this team working to adapt and implement suicide prevention for youth in Ethiopia.
Meet INSPIRE: our new suicide prevention package for Ethiopian youth. INSPIRE adapts proven safety planning tools for Ethiopian youth, integrating suicide screening into routine care. Through implementation research, we aim to improve care, save lives, and scale what works.
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Leaving Brazil full of energy after this week’s implementation science institute! Professionals from across the country came together to learn and apply IS with CEPPAR, Einstein & @BaumannAna. Honored to be a part of this team!
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Our first poster on adapting a suicide prevention package for Ethiopian youth won Best Poster @NUFeinbergMed Global Health Ed Day! It showcases how we used ADAPT-ITT to tailor screening and referral tools. 📍#16: https://t.co/BsXtJIHfw2 📰 https://t.co/geSHKsPBJU
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Northwestern educators, faculty, students and community partners recently celebrated the 6th annual Global Health Education Day. The event featured poster presentations, tow keynote addresses and opening remarks from @FSMGlobalHealth's Ashti Doobay-Persaud https://t.co/UrCpnnnSko
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Congratulations to @NUFeinbergMSS faculty @AmeliaVanPelt, PhD, MPH and team on publishing this paper that uses the innovation tournament methodology to crowdsource ideas for implementation of long-acting PrEP in sexual minority men in Chicago! Read now:
implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com
Background Reducing HIV incidence requires the effective implementation of evidence-based prevention practices. In Chicago, HIV disproportionately impacts sexual minority men (SMM). Long-acting...
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Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament #impsci #ImpSciComms
https://t.co/i7znjVjtrd
implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com
Background Reducing HIV incidence requires the effective implementation of evidence-based prevention practices. In Chicago, HIV disproportionately impacts sexual minority men (SMM). Long-acting...
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This was a fun project! Our team ran an innovation tournament to crowdsource ideas for injectable PrEP in Chicago. #impsci
Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament #impsci #ImpSciComms
https://t.co/i7znjVjtrd
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So honored to have won Outstanding Global Health Educator of the Year from @FSMGlobalHealth! Now, more than ever, we need to lift up the next gen of global health trainees.
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This team was brilliant! It was a joy watching them shine in this competition. Global health case competitions have a special place in my 💜
A team of @NUFeinbergMed, @NorthwesternEng , and @NorthwesternU Weinberg students recently took third place in the 2025 Morningside International Global Health Case Competition at Emory University. The team was mentored by @AmeliaVanPelt — https://t.co/B1pek1IeyW
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Join @NUCATSInstitute and @nu_ipham on Thursday at noon for what promises to be a fascinating presentation by @AmeliaVanPelt. "At the most basic level, implementation science is about moving the needle to make sure folks get the things that work" — https://t.co/1w6oUrWhWo
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Implementation science helps close the gap between research and practice. On Thursday, April 10, @AmeliaVanPelt will provide an overview of the field, highlight key terminology, and describe its impact on public health during our next TAPH Lecture — https://t.co/1w6oUrWhWo
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