About
Emily Claypool, PhD, integrates organizational theory, implementation science, and community-engaged methods to understand and improve the translation of complex interventions into social and health services. She came to ICTR after completing a T32 postdoctoral research fellowship in the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.
Her research draws on science and technology studies and medical anthropology to examine how social scientific knowledge is produced and institutionalized within social services. Her dissertation, “Social Service Laboratories: The Politics of Reform in an Overdose Prevention Clinical Trial,” is an ethnographic study of a randomized controlled trial. It examines how politics, measurement practices, and varied forms of expertise impact knowledge translation, shaping the role of community organizations and the consequences for the populations they serve.
Dr. Claypool has served as a qualitative researcher for over a decade, bringing extensive experience in study design, data collection methods, and forms of qualitative analysis.