Dr. Hannah Lane

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Hannah Grace Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University, where she focuses on implementation science with expertise in mixed methods and community-engaged research. Her research aims to improve the implementation of federal policies to increase access to nutritious foods and physical activity for children facing social and economic disadvantages. Lane's work is centered around three primary focus areas: optimizing the implementation of evidence-based healthy eating and physical activity policies in child-serving settings, studying the flexibilities in federal child nutrition assistance policies in the context of COVID-19, and involving children and adolescents as active participants in implementation research. This involves developing and testing pragmatic, age-appropriate evaluation metrics to ultimately enhance health-promoting policy implementation in under-resourced community settings and reduce pediatric health inequities. Her methodological expertise includes implementation and dissemination methods, stakeholder-driven research, youth participatory research methods, mixed methods evaluation, and program development.

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