Hosted by the Global Center for Implementation Science
Please join us for a special presentation by Dr. Douglas Luke, Director of the Center for Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.
To join this seminar, please send an email request to research.development@nyu.edu.
About the Speaker
Dr. Douglas Luke is the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy and Director of the Center for
Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in
St. Louis. In addition to his appointment at the Brown School, Dr. Luke is a member of the Institute
for Public Health, the Director of Evaluation for the Institute of Clinical and Translational
Science, and a founding member of the Washington University Network of Dissemination and
Implementation Researchers. He received his PhD at the University of Illinois in quantitative,
clinical, and community Psychology.
He is a leading researcher in the areas of public health policy, systems science, and tobacco
control. Over the past decade, Dr. Luke has used systems science methods, especially social
network analysis and agent-based modeling, to address important public health problems.
Under Dr. Luke's leadership, the Center for Public Health Systems Science has used network
analysis to study diffusion of scientific innovations, to model the formation of organizational
collaborations, and to study the relationship of mentoring to future scientific collaboration.