Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Emily Fu is a postdoctoral implementation science fellow at BRIDGE. She completed her double major in biology and psychology at Emory University, her Masters of Public Health in social & behavioral sciences at Yale School of Public Health, and doctorate in clinical psychology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She was awarded an NIH NRSA F31 training grant from NHLBI (F31HL160534). The project focused on developing and validating the Observational Assessment Tool for Tailoring (OATT) to quantify fidelity to tailoring in family-based pediatric obesity interventions. The creation of the OATT will elucidate the role of tailoring as an intervention characteristic to inform intervention design and program implementation.

Her research focuses on multi-level prevention and management of obesity, equitable access to mental and behavioral health services, and implementation science to facilitate and improve the behavioral medicine research to practice pipeline. She also has interest and expertise in pragmatic trials and improving recipient-informed tailoring. At Northwestern, she coordinated a stepped-wedge roll-out study assessing the implementation and evaluation of a collaborative care program in 11 Northwestern Medicine primary care clinics. She has led and contributed to multiple implementation science and behavioral medicine products utilizing various models, methods and frameworks such as rapid qualitative analysis for implementation research, the Stages of Implementation Completion (SIC), the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and CFIR2.0.