Richard M. Fairbanks
School of Public Health

Phone:

(317) 274-3245

Email:

spgrant@iu.edu

Departments:

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Degrees:

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Intervention, University of Oxford

Master of Science in Evidence-Based Social Intervention, University of Oxford

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Loyola Marymount University

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University

Resume/CV

Biography

Dr. Sean Grant is an assistant professor in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. He completed his doctorate in social intervention as a Clarendon Scholar at the Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford. Prior to joining FSPH, he spent several years as a behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation, a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and an adjunct lecturer at Loyola Marymount University. He is an associate member of the Department of Social Policy & Intervention at the University of Oxford, as well as an adjunct member of the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center and ExpertLens Team at RAND.

Research Interests

Dr. Grant's work aims to advance the credibility of intervention research and its utility for supporting evidence-based policy and practice. He primarily focuses on interventions for behavioral health, though he is interested in intervention research across the behavioral, social, and health sciences. His research has been supported by the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), US Department of Defense (DoD), US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), UK College of Policing (CoP), UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), and the Wallace Foundation.

Publications

• Grant, S., Mayo-Wilson, E., Montgomery, P., Macdonald, G., Michie, S., Hopewell, S., & Moher, D. (2018). CONSORT-SPI 2018 Explanation and Elaboration: Guidance for reporting social and psychological intervention trials. Trials, 19, 406. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2735-z
• Montgomery, P., Grant, S., Mayo-Wilson, E., Macdonald, G., Michie, S., Hopewell, S., & Moher, D. (2018). Reporting randomised trials of social and psychological interventions: The CONSORT-SPI 2018 Extension. Trials, 19, 407. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2733-1
• Grant, S, Booth, M., & Khodyakov, D. (2018). Lack of pre-registered analysis plans allows unacceptable data mining for and selective reporting of consensus in Delphi studies. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 99, 96-105. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.03.007
• Grant, S., Hazlewood, G. S., Peay, H. L., Lucas, A., Coulter, I., Fink, A., & Khodyakov, D. (2018). Practical considerations for using online methods to engage patients in guideline development. The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 11(2), 155-166. doi: 10.1007/s40271-017-0280-6
• Tanner-Smith, E. E., & Grant, S. (2018). Meta-analysis of complex interventions. Annual Review of Public Health, 39, 135-151. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-040617-014112
• Movsisyan, A., Dennis, J., Rehfuess, E., Grant, S., & Montgomery, P. (2018). Rating the quality of a body of evidence on the effectiveness of health and social interventions: A systematic review and mapping of evidence domains. Research Synthesis Methods, 9, 224–242. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1290
• Grant, S., Hamilton, L. S., Wrabel, S. L., Gomez, C. J., Whitaker, A., Tamargo, J., Unlu, F., Chavez-Herrerias, E. R., Baker, G., Barrett, M., Harris, M., & Ramos, A. (2017). Social and emotional learning interventions under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence review. RR-2133. Santa Monica, USA: RAND Corporation.
• Grant, S., Mayo-Wilson, E., & Montgomery, P. (2016). Implementing quality improvement for psychosocial interventions. Journal of the American Medical Association, 315(9), 943. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.17855
• Cybulski, L., Mayo-Wilson, E., & Grant, S. (2016). Improving transparency and reproducibility through registration: The status of intervention trials published in clinical psychology journals. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 84(9), 753-767. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000115
• Grant, S., Montgomery, P., Hopewell, S., Macdonald, G., Moher, D., & Mayo-Wilson, E. (2013). Developing a reporting guideline for social and psychological intervention trials. Research on Social Work Practice (23, 595-602. doi: 10.1177/1049731513498118)