Optimizing Interventions for Equitability: Some Initial Ideas (MtG) 

The multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) is being applied widely, in various areas of public health, to empirically identify high-value multicomponent interventions that are not only effective but also affordable, scalable, and/or efficient in their use of available resources. Recently, it has been proposed that MOST may also be used to identify high-value interventions with an additional criterion in mind, namely, equitability. Intervention-generated inequality is a well-documented phenomenon in which an intervention that is effective on a population level increases existing health disparities; new methods are needed to identify multicomponent interventions that are equitably high impact.
In this webinar, Drs. Collins and Strayhorn first offer a brief introduction to intervention optimization using MOST, and then introduce their preliminary thinking about how MOST might be applied to identify equitable interventions-interventions that, when implemented properly, are not expected to produce intervention-generated inequality.