Travis R Moore

Contributions to Public Health

• Designing and testing interventions to improve evidence use: I develop and test strategies with multi-sector collaborations (e.g., community coalitions, community-clinical partners) find, interpret, and apply research evidence in local decisions. My NICHD K99/R00 program combines implementation science, network analysis, participatory modeling, and simulation to examine how structured evidence reviews, decision support, and opinion-leader engagement affect the adoption of evidence-informed chronic disease prevention practices in areas of obesity, cancer, and drug and alcohol use.
  • Moore TR, Chang Chusan YA, Pachucki M, Kim B. A participatory systems approach for visualizing and testing implementation strategies and mechanisms: Evidence adoption in community coalitions. Implementation Science Communications. 2025.
  • Moore TR, Hennessy E, Chang Chusan YA, Ashcraft LE, Economos CD. Considerations for using participatory systems modeling as a tool for implementation mapping in chronic disease prevention. Annals of Epidemiology. 2025.
• Community coalitions as intervention systems for chronic disease prevention: I study how multisector coalitions organize collective action and produce policy, systems, and environmental change. Across multisite initiatives, I identify the relational, organizational, and contextual mechanisms that support implementation, diffusion, and sustained community-led prevention. This work links coalition processes to measurable changes in local prevention activity and informs the design of stronger coalition-based interventions.
  • Moore TR, Chang Chusan YA, Neergaard R, et al. Identifying synergistic mechanisms of community-led policy, systems, and environmental change for childhood obesity prevention in the multi-site Catalyzing Communities initiative. Journal of Urban Health. 2026.
  • Moore TR, Chang Chusan YA, Sanderson E, et al. Community-led change: Progress toward policy, systems, and environmental impacts through the Catalyzing Communities initiative. PLOS ONE. 2025.
• Participatory systems modeling for intervention development and mechanism testing: I use group model building, causal loop diagrams, system dynamics, and agent-based modeling to make complex public health processes explicit and testable. I work with community and academic partners to integrate local knowledge with formal models, identify feedback mechanisms and leverage points, compare intervention scenarios, and refine strategies before or alongside implementation.
  • Calancie L, Moore TR, Appel JM, et al. Participatory systems science modeling with coalitions identifies common dynamics that drive health trends and disparities in seven communities across the United States. BMC Public Health. 2026.
  • Moore TR, Alejandro J, Dougherty M, et al. Addressing alcohol-involved sexual violence on college campuses: A collaborative system dynamics theory of change. Frontiers in Public Health. 2025.
• Network science for intervention targeting and diffusion: I use social network analysis to examine how coalition composition, communication patterns, and cross-sector relationships shape the spread of knowledge, resources, and prevention practices. I translate these findings into network-informed strategies that engage influential actors, address relational bottlenecks, and strengthen the pathways through which evidence and implementation support move across organizations and communities.
  • Moore TR, Pachucki MC, Economos CD. (2024). Determinants and facilitators of community coalition diffusion of prevention efforts. PLOS Complex Systems, 1(1), e0000004. doi:10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000004
  • Moore TR, Pachucki MC, Hennessy E, Economos CD. (2022). Tracing coalition changes in knowledge in and engagement with childhood obesity prevention to inform intervention implementation. BMC Public Health, 22, 1838. doi:10.1186/s12889-022-14208-3
• Community-led and co-produced evaluation of complex public health initiatives: I develop evaluation approaches that combine systems thinking, mixed methods, and community knowledge while sharing decision-making authority with partners. My work examines how evidence is defined, whose perspectives shape evaluative judgments, and how studies can remain methodologically defensible while responding to local context, community priorities, and the dynamics of cross-sector collaboration.
  • Moore, T. R. a, Krobath, D., Chang Chusan, Y. A., Sanga, U., Webb, P., Pachucki, M., Cuevas, A., Roland, H., Grant, B., Economos, C. D., Nicholson, V., Kumanyika, S. (2025). Towards Health Equity: Harnessing Systems Science Methods to Understand and Address Food Systems as Systems of Discrimination. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01229-5
  • Moore TR, Valmadrid LC, Baragwanath R, Haack N, Bakken L. (2024). Gatekeeping’s influence on equitable evaluation practice. American Journal of Evaluation, 45(1), 29-50. doi:10.1177/10982140231154503