DPhil, University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
MSc, University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention
MPH (2013), AUA Turpanjian College of Health Sciences
Ani Movsisyan, MPH, MSc, DPhil is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich). Dr. Movsisyan’s research interests include development, implementation, and evaluation of complex population health interventions, complex systems thinking, and use of evidence in policy-making. Much of her work has focused on extending and developing methods for assessing the evidence of complex population health interventions. Her DPhil work explored how the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) guidance may be advanced to better describe the evidence base of complex interventions. Currently, she is a researcher on the ADAPT Study (a collaboration among five institutions, including DECIPHer at Cardiff University, LMU Munich, the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield, and University of Stirling), which aims to develop an overarching guidance for adapting complex population heath interventions when transferring them into new contexts. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned Dr. Movsisyan to write and edit a new chapter in the WHO Handbook of Guideline Development on how to incorporate a complexity perspective into WHO guidelines. In 2019, she also received the Friedrich-Baur-Stiftung (research funding) to lead a project on mapping the field of evidence use, specifically the intellectual structure of research co-production and its conceptual developments across different disciplines. Dr. Movsisyan joined AUA’s CHS as a Visiting Assistant Professor to teach Qualitative Research Methods (QRM) in 2019. She is particularly interested in the use of QRM in the context of collaborative research in health and aims to further work in this area to contribute to the development of critical approaches in implementation science. Previously, Dr. Movsisyan has lectured at the University of Oxford and the University of Malta on the methods of evidence synthesis and systematic reviewing.