Held yearly since 2018, the IBTN Summer School seeks to break through current obstacles in behavioural trial methodologies and expand the reach, capacity, and impact of trials in the field of behavioural medicine
Working with internationally renowned experts in innovative clinical trials, behavioural intervention development, and patient-oriented research, participants learn about developing effective behavioural interventions and conducting high-quality trials through interactive workshops and training activities. The IBTN Summer School is also designed to foster networking opportunities for its participants.
The Summer School has involved 57 individual faculty members from 10 different countries and now boasts of 130 alumni from across 19 countries.
Over four different editions, the Summer School has now welcomed 21 Masters students, 62 doctoral students, 20 postdoc fellows, and 27 professionals (including early career investigators).
Summer School participants resoundingly reported a positive experience, with 99% enjoying the overall course experience, 97% appreciating the course materials as relevant and useful to their research, and 89% reporting that they learned “a lot”.
The best features of the Summer School program, as reported by participants include:
- #1 – Collaborative activities
- #2 – Knowledgeable, engaging, and approachable faculty
- #3 – Social activities and networking opportunities
- #4 – Content quality and relevance
- #5 – Multidisciplinary and international scope
- #6 – Program format and structure (interactive and informal)
- #7 – Diversity of knowledge and perspectives
- #8 – Opportunities for questions and discussion
- #9 – Theoretical content and practical focus
- #10 – Applied projects
Listen to former Summer School participants talk about the Summer School
Course themes over the first four edition included:
- Basic concepts and unique elements of behavioural trials
- What makes behavioural interventions and trials unique and complex?
- The clinically significant question and building implementation in from the start
- How to appropriately develop a behavioural intervention, including the use of multiple research designs and the integration of stakeholders in the process
- Stakeholder engagement and designing for implementation
- The role of pilot and feasibility studies for your behavioural intervention
- Intervention development models (ORBIT/SOBC)
- Intervention development and stakeholder engagement
- Matching your design to the question
- The different kinds of evaluations that need to be conducted throughout the development and testing of your behavioural intervention
- Feasibility and piloting
- Evaluation – match your evaluation to the stage and design
- Designing relevant behavioural Interventions for lower and middle-income countries
- Implementation
- The Behaviour Change Wheel
- Behaviour Change Taxonomy
- Aperçu des modèles de développement des interventions de population et individuelles
- La « science fondamentale » des interventions :
- Les déterminants sociaux de la santé
- Recherches axées sur le patient
- Moyens pour optimiser les interventions comportementales
- Revues systématiques
- Devis MOST
- Interventions de population : considérations méthodologiques
- Essais cliniques : considérations méthodologiques
- Choix de mesures
- Évaluation de la fidélité de l’intervention
- Conceptions alternatives aux essais randomisés contrôlés
- Devis SMART
- Essais pragmatique
- Diffusion de la recherche et mise en œuvre
During each edition, participant groups generated a series of different projects, including:
2018 Edition
- Behavioural Intervention to Improve Primary Care Physicians’ Screening and Referral Rates to a Diabetes Prevention Programme
- Mobile vs. In-Person CBT in Adolescents with Depression
- Factorial design for Adoption of Knowledge to increase Exercise: The FAKE Trial
- Optimization of an m-Health intervention to prevent gestational diabetes in high-risk pregnant women with overweight and/or obesity
- Implementing enhanced audit and feedback: A cluster randomised controlled trial
2019 Edition
- Le développement d’une intervention pour la réduction de la consommation de cannabis chez les jeunes adolescents âgés entre 14-18 ans
- “La minute qui change tout” – Étude de faisabilité d’une intervention d’éducation sur les bienfaits de l’activité physique proposée aux professionnels de santé en oncologie sénologique
- Des interventions eHealth pour la réduction du temps d’écran passif afin de diminuer les symptômes dépressifs chez les adolescents: essai clinique randomisé contrôlé
2021 Edition
- Can physical exercise reduce psychological distress in hotel quarantine?
- Text2Vax: Is a Text-Based Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Feasible and Acceptable for Personal Support Workers?
- Promoting adherence to Canada’s 24-hour movement guidelines by 9-12 year old girls to reduce depressive symptomology in adolescence
- Physical activity intervention targeting sedentary adolescents with depression: A proof-of-concept study
- A SMS intervention to increase PrEP adherence among women in serodiscordant relationships (PAWS) in Uganda: A protocol for a optimization trial à
- Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among University Undergraduate Students
- Optimization of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to improve physical activity and diet among meat-packing warehouse employees at risk for type 2 diabetes
- mHealth for Mental Health in Adults: M & M
2022 Edition
- Body and mind intervention (behavioural weight management)
- A hybrid intervention to increase completion of cardiac rehabilitation in women: protocol for randomized controlled trial
- Increasing levels of physical activity among young adults with depression to decrease risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A feasibility study for an RCT
- Increasing HPV vaccine uptake in community within Ireland with low HPV vaccine rates
- A hybrid nutrition intervention for pregnant women in Canada
- Improving insomnia treatment in primary care settings
Summer School Faculty and Group Leads
| 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||
| Angela Alberga, PhD | Concordia University, Canada | Faculty | Faculty | Core Faculty and Satellite Lead | Core Faculty and Group Lead | |
| Silvina Arrossi, PhD | National Institute of Science and Technology, Argentina | Faculty | ||||
| Simon Bacon, PhD | Concordia University, Canada | Faculty | Faculty | Faculty | Faculty | Faculty |
| Tracie Barnett, PhD | INRS-Institut Armand Frappier, Canada | Faculty | Core Faculty and Group Lead | |||
| Ariane Bélanger-Gravel, PhD | Université Laval, Canada | Faculty | Core Faculty and Group Lead | |||
| Jean Bourbeau, PhD | McGill University, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Claude-Julie Bourque, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | Faculty | |||
| David Buckeridge, PhD | McGill University, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Molly Byrne, PhD | NUI Galway, Ireland | Core Faculty | Core Faculty and Satellite Lead | Faculty | ||
| Tavis Campbell, PhD | University of Calgary, Canada | Core Faculty | Satellite Lead | |||
| Linda Carlson, PhD | University of Calgary, Canada | Faculty | Satellite Lead | |||
| Linda Collins, PhD | Pennsylvania State University, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Susan Czajkowski, PhD | National Cancer Institute, USA | Core Faculty | Core Faculty and Satellite Lead | Faculty | ||
| Kaberi Dasgupta, MD, Msc | McGill University, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Karina Davidson, PhD | Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Frédérique Deslauriers, PhD(c) | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | Core Faculty and Group Lead | ||||
| Declan Devane, PhD | National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland | Faculty | ||||
| Sébastien Dewez, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Maureen Dobbins, PhD | McMaster University, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Ken Freedland, PhD | Washington University, USA | Faculty | Faculty | |||
| Annick Gauthier | Centre de médecine comportementale de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Lise Gauvin, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | Faculty | |||
| Jennifer Gordon, PhD | University of Regina, Canada | Satellite Lead | ||||
| Vincent Gosselin Boucher, PhD | University of British Columbia, Canada | Satellite Lead | Core Faculty and Group Lead | |||
| Jeremy Grimshaw, MD, PhD | University of Ottawa, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Kate Guastaferro, PhD | Pennsylvania State University, USA | Core Faculty and Satellite Lead | Faculty | |||
| Robert Kaplan, PhD | Stanford University, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Ian Kronish, MD | Columbia University, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Kristopher Lamore, PhD | Université de Lille, France | Group Lead | ||||
| Catherine Laurin, PhD | Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Kim Lavoie, PhD | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | Core Faculty | Faculty | Core Faculty and Satellite Lead | Faculty | Core Faculty and Group Lead |
| Rebecca Lee, PhD | Arizona State University, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Mariantonia Lemos, PhD | UEAFIT, Colombia | Satellite Lead | Satellite Lead | |||
| Audrey L’Espérance, PhD | Centre d’excellence sur le partenariat avec les patients et le public, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Sean Locke, PhD | Brock University, Canada | Satellite Lead | ||||
| Marta Marques, PhD | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal | Satellite Lead | Faculty | |||
| Oonagh Meade, PhD | National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland | Satellite Lead | Satellite Lead | |||
| Susan Michie, PhD | University College London, UK | Faculty | ||||
| Paul Montgomery, PhD | University of Birmingham, UK | Core Faculty | ||||
| Grégory Ninot, PhD | Université de Montpellier, France | Core Faculty | Faculty | Faculty | ||
| Chris Noone, PhD | National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland | Satellite Lead | ||||
| David Ogez, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Linda Pagani, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Mark Parascandola, PhD, MPH | Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Sandra Peláez, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Lynda Powell, PhD | Rush University, USA | Faculty | Faculty | |||
| Justin Presseau, PhD | Ottawa University, Canada | Core Faculty | Faculty | Faculty | Faculty | |
| Geneviève Rouleau, PhD | Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada | Core Faculty and Group Lead | ||||
| María Fernanda Sedeño, BEng, MM | RESPIPLUS, McGill University, Canada | Faculty | ||||
| Arash Shaban-Nejad, PhD | University of California, Berkeley, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Sherri Sheinfeld-Gorin, PhD | University of Michigan, USA | Core Faculty and Satellite Lead | Faculty | |||
| Sharon Simpson, PhD | University of Glasgow, Scotland | Faculty | ||||
| Sudha Sivaram, DrPH, MPH | Center for Global Health, US National Cancer Institute, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Bonnie Spring, PhD | Northwestern University, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Serge Sultan, PhD | Université de Montréal, Canada | Faculty | Faculty | |||
| Michael Sykes, PhD | Northumbria University, UK | Satellite Lead | Satellite Lead | |||
| K. Thankappan, PhD | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, India | Faculty | ||||
| Elaine Toomey, PhD | NUI Galway (2018), University of Limerick (2021), Ireland | Faculty | Faculty | |||
| Brigitte Voisard, PhD(c) | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | Group Lead | ||||
| Byron Wallace, PhD | Northeastern University, USA | Faculty | ||||
| Robert West, PhD | University College London, UK | Faculty |
SUMMER SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM
| Scientific Committee | 2018 | 2019 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Simon Bacon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kim Lavoie | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Angela Alberga | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Tracie Barnett | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Ariane Bélanger-Gravel | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Molly Byrne | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Tavis Campbell | ✓ | |||||
| Marilou Côté | ✓ | |||||
| Susan Czajkowski | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Kaberi Dasgupta | ✓ | |||||
| Frédérique Deslauriers | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Alysha Deslippe | ✓ | |||||
| Anda Dragomir | ✓ | |||||
| Lise Gauvin | ✓ | |||||
| Jennifer Gordon | ✓ | |||||
| Vincent Gosselin Boucher | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Kate Guastaferro | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Jo Hart | ✓ | |||||
| Sara Labbé | ✓ | |||||
| Florian Lagloire Amoussou | ✓ | |||||
| Amar Laila | ✓ | |||||
| Krisopher Lamore | ✓ | |||||
| Sean Locke | ✓ | |||||
| Élise Legault | ✓ | |||||
| Mariantonia Lemos | ✓ | |||||
| Paul Montgomery | ✓ | |||||
| Grégory Ninot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Chris Noone | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| John O’Neill | ✓ | |||||
| Nicola Paine | ✓ | |||||
| Maja Pedersen | ✓ | |||||
| Frank Penedo | ✓ | |||||
| Angela Pfammatter | ✓ | |||||
| Justin Presseau | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Mohsen Rasoulivalajoozi | ✓ | |||||
| Geneviève Rouleau | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Rebecca Seagrave | ✓ | |||||
| Sherri Sheinfeld-Gorin | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Jovana Stojanovic | ✓ | |||||
| Brigitte Voisard | ✓ | |||||
| Xuefeng Zhong | ✓ | |||||
| Administrative Team | ||||||
| Cloé Blanchette-Carrière | ✓ | |||||
| Gabriela Gasparini | ✓ | |||||
| Shandra Gunnoo | ✓ | |||||
| Cassandre Julien | ✓ | |||||
| Thalie Labonté | ✓ | |||||
| Guillaume Lacoste | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nathalie Maroun | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Johanne O’Malley | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paula Ribeiro | ✓ | |||||
| Geneviève Szczepanik | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |