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Foundational and completed research · Community systems change
Catalyzing Communities
How do communities create policy, systems, and environmental change?
The study
Led by Christina Economos at Tufts, Catalyzing Communities combined participatory systems modeling, coalition networks, and locally led action. Travis’s research and evaluation work examined how relationships, systems thinking, and community processes contribute to policy, systems, and environmental change.
Methods and contributions
Group model building · Network analysis · Mixed-methods evaluation · Policy, systems, and environmental change
Full project title
Catalyzing Communities to Prevent Obesity: A Systems Approach