This special issue solicits articles that use epidemiological methods to understand issues in the field of implementation science related to measurement, mechanisms and novel methods to measure impacts on population health. Guest editors: Elvin Geng and Byron Powell from WashU, and Gila Neta from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Learn more about the D&I Introductory Workshop at WashU!
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation is offering a new funding mechanism for post-docs and faculty investigators. Read more!
The 4th annual Systems Science for Social Impact (SSSI) Summer Training Institute will be held at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, from July 31 – August 4, 2023. This 5-day Institute offers a hands-on intro to systems science methods. Applications are open.
Open to early career researchers (PhDs/MDs and equivalent) at post-doctoral or junior faculty level, the HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Health Implementation Research Institute is a training program is accepting applications for its third cohort through April 3 at 5pm CST.
As public health departments across the U.S. face increased scrutiny, the Brown School’s Prevention Research Center has partnered with the Brookings Institution in a groundbreaking investigation to identify ways to improve decision making and more effectively use health department resources.
Learn about D&I collaborator, Flora Cohen, and her work in Uganda.
Scholars from across the US gathered at the Brown School and on Zoom in November to participate in the first in-person training by the Institute for Implementation Science Scholars, IS-2 for short.
A new article, published in Implementation Science Research and Practice, highlights recommendations to sustain current Implementation Science (IS) capacity building programs (ISCBPs) and includes novel and emerging IS competencies for the field.
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation’s seed funding programs are designed to support a broad range of dissemination and implementation studies, and aim to support the development of projects to the point at which they are ready to compete for external funding.
Two WashU centers, community health workers and partner community organizations are rallying together to provide Covid-19 vaccines to area communities.
Patients with social needs experienced a higher number of hospitalizations, obesity, prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes, finds a new study from Maura Kepper at the Brown School on the social determinants of health.
Meet Callie Walsh-Bailey, MPH, doctoral student and emerging bright star on the implementation science scene.
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation has awarded researchers with several key funding mechanisms. Find out what this funding is and how it can impact key projects.
The recent D&I rural health symposium helped build collaborations among rural health care providers and implementation scientists.
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation hosted its annual bootcamp, where 28 expert consultants and 24 investigator teams gathered for a full day of unique consultations.
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health recently convened more than 30 HIGH-IRI fellows and more than a dozen faculty from the U.S., Africa, Asia and South America for an annual three-day training event.
On September 7th, the Center for Dissemination and Implementation hosted Karen Emmons, PhD, professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, for her talk The Role of Policy in Implementation Science and Health Equity. Morgan C. Shields, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School, attended and shares her takeaways.
Assistant Professor, Philip Marotta‘s research has benefitted from grant funding and other resources from the Center for Dissemination & Implementation, and its initiative, IDDI (Infectious Disease – Dissemination and Implementation Science Initiative). In its second year, IDDI cultivates implementation science research in infectious disease to improve evidence-based prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in St. Louis and beyond.
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Publich Health (WashU) is sponsoring a Rural Health Symposium this September which will bring together universities and stakeholders in the region.