Cory D. Bradley is a team scientist in the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and a health justice scholar whose work in HIV implementation science centers participatory approaches in knowledge translation to resist the reproduction of ongoing HIV epidemics among communities and health systems facing multiple intersectional epidemics of inequality. His work is rooted in the lineage of community resistance movements that have shaped, expanded, and democratized the knowledge and care infrastructures credited with driving consequential breakthroughs in HIV health globally.

Dr. Bradley’s scholarship expands disciplinary boundaries to contour implementation science as a site of structural change and a pathway for building anti-oppressive public health and healthcare practice. Grounded in his lived experience as a Black gay man living with HIV from the U.S. South, he approaches implementation science as a speculative and ‘deliberative/liberatory’ practice in which communities, configured as networks of care knowledge, act not only as subjects of science, but use their agency to co-determine the priorities, design, and translation of interventions into diverse practice settings, notwithstanding the transformation of diverse settings and practices of care.

Across his partnerships with health departments and community-based organizations, Dr. Bradley mobilizes community participation as a strategy to transform care practices, address the structural determinants of inequitable health, and build power and agency among implementing teams. He launched the podcast of Catch the Power with Dr. Bradley in 2021, which serves as a repository of immersive engagements with torch-bearing scholarship in dissemination and implementation science and health equity.