The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic AD/ADRD Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Real World Data Scholars Program. Recipients were selected from an impressive group of competitive applications. About the Real World Data Scholars Program The Real World Data Scholars Program is a 1-year mentored training experience designed ...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic AD/ADRD Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 James L. Rudolph Career Development Award Program. Recipients were selected from an impressive group of competitive applications. About the James L. Rudolph Career Development Award Program The James L. Rudolph Career Development Award recognizes promising ...

IMPACT Design and Statistics Core member Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, continues his four-part blog series exploring Targeted Minimum Loss Estimation (TMLE)—a causal inference approach developed for observational studies that is increasingly relevant for randomized trials as well, including cluster randomized and stepped-wedge designs. In the latest post, Dr. Goldfeld recaps key ideas from earlier installments, ...

Fan Li, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics at Yale School of Public Health and member of IMPACT’s Design and Statistics Core, has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health Early Career Research Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions as an early-career investigator. Dr. Li is ...

IMPACT Design and Statistics Core member Keith Goldfeld, DrPH, MS, MPA, has created a blog series exploring an analytic method called Targeted Minimum Loss Estimation (TMLE). TMLE is among causal inference approaches—methods first developed for observational data, but increasingly relevant for randomized trials as well. In particular, Dr. Goldfeld is digging into what TMLE can ...

March 5, 2026 – The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce the 2026 IMPACT Faculty Scholars. The IMPACT Collaboratory’s Faculty Scholars Program is a one-year enrichment opportunity for investigators to develop expertise in designing and conducting embedded pragmatic clinical trials ...

Uncovering treatment effect heterogeneity in pragmatic gerontology trials March 1, 2026 A recent publication by Heather Allore, PhD, and Fan Li, PhD, both members of the IMPACT Design and Statistics Core, and Guangyu Tong, PhD, a faculty scholar, demonstrates how embedding machine learning methods such as Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), can help find treatment effect heterogeneity ...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) Imbedded Pragmatic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) Clinical Trials (IMPACT) Collaboratory is pleased to announce a Request for Applications  for the 2026 Health Care Systems Scholars Program. The IMPACT Collaboratory will fund up to two Health Care Systems Scholar Awards. Each award will provide $120,000 in total direct ...

Characteristics of the Long-Term Care Data Cooperative: A New Resource for Research on Outcomes in Long-Term Care February 19, 2026 A recent publication by IMPACT members Stephanie Kissam, Amy Recker, David Gifford, Vince Mor, and Elizabeth White characterizes the LTC Data Cooperative to orient potential investigators to the types of research questions these data can address. The study ...

Materials from the NIH Pragmatic Trials’ “Dissemination and Implementation in Embedded Pragmatic Trials: Science‑Powered Strategies to Sustain and Spread Effective Interventions” workshop at the 18th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health are now available online. The session featured two IMPACT members: multiple principal investigator Vince Mor, PhD, who presented on post‑trial ...