b'The Pulte InstituteforGlobal DevelopmentResearch Methods Learned Abroad Support Local Efforts to End Gun ViolenceLessons learned through global research to improve educationCounty, was DAgostinos second time participating in a local outcomes in Africa are being applied to the epidemic of gunevent in the same capacity. In conversation with friend Don violence in the U.S. Zimmer, an emergency medicine physician and co-director of medical education for South Bends Beacon Health System, The Youth Anti-Gun Violence Symposium in South Bendhe suggested incorporating systems-thinking exercises for incorporated a systems thinking workshop for attendees led inparticipants to the healthcare networks ongoing work to part by T.J. DAgostino, assistant professor of the practice andengage the community with vital but complex topics. Zimmer core faculty member of the Pulte Institute. DAgostino, whosewas enthusiastic and asked DAgostino to lend his experience research focuses on education policy as it affects vulnerablewith the format to support attendees as they moved through children, was exposed to the systems thinking approach tothe exercise.problem-solving through his work as a principal investigator for SHARE (read more about SHARE studies on page 28). ProjectGoing forward, DAgostino imagines more opportunities to partners in Africa practiced a method of imagining solutions toconnect the Pulte Institutes broader work to help address systemic challenges through discussion and the co-creation oflocal issuesbringing the world to South Bend and South maps and models, offering their expertise in the approach toBend to the world, as he remembers Pulte Director Tracy DAgostino and other team members. Kijewski-Correas describing the exchange.Our partners from Uganda have gotten really good at these,How can we bring learning from elsewhere here? and we worked with them in many of our shared researchDAgostino framed the possibilities of local engagement with a projects, he said of the collaborative approach to developingquestion. He added, But there could be opportunities to test policies that produce positive change. proofs of concept here and bring it elsewhere. I love that idea. His involvement in the workshop, co-hosted by Beacon Healths Memorial Hospital and the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph On this page: T.J. DAgostino presents as part of ongoing research to improve education outcomes in Kenya. 4139 | 2023-24 Annual Review'