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.
Bootcamp is an informative, fun event where researchers meet with D&I experts for brief consultations with the intention of advancing their grant proposals from idea to proposal draft. This event is open to WashU researchers and/or research teams with a primary investigator from Washington University in St. Louis.
A network survey among agencies that address cancer risk in rural Missouri and Illinois, conducted by the Brown School and School of Medicine’s Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control, was found to be useful in helping those practitioners identify gaps, plan for how to establish future relationships and strengthen collaboration.
Faculty Scholar and primary investigator, Maura Kepper and team are looking at digital tools as a means to prevent cancer in rural Missouri. The study was funded, in part, by a pilot grant from the Institute for Public Health’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation.
Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholar Ginger McKay and colleague, Kneeshee Parkinson, are working together to bring an international program for women living with HIV to St. Louis.
This D&I Implementation Research Institute has completed its first year of training to great success. See what a few of its participants are saying about their experience.
The Translational Science Benefit Model (TSBM) and Implementation Research Institute (IRI) teams worked to develop six imact case studies that showcase the impact of IRI fellows’ and alums’ work, and the impact of the IRI itself as a mentored network.
Offered by the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health, RAD funding boosts research projects in multiple ways.
De-implementation is a process studied in a broad array of disciplines, yet implementation science has thus far been limited in the integration of learnings from other fields. A study led by Callie Walsh-Bailey that was published in Implementation Science offers an overview of frameworks and models that implementation researchers and practitioners can use to inform their […]
Byron Powell, PhD looks forward to his new role as Associate Director for the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health. We caught up with Powell and asked about his goals for the center and how he plans to lead the new Methods and Metascience Initiative.
Fast-Track Cities is regaining momentum after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Dr. Cory Bradley, the acting co-chair of Fast-Track Cities St. Louis and a post-doctoral research associate in HIV implementation science at Washington University’s Institute of Public Health.
In Fall of 2022, a new course will be available through the Washington University School of Medicine Master of Population Health Sciences (MPHS) degree program: Introduction to Health Disparities and the Structural and Social Determinants of Health.
A collaborative group from Washington University have launched the Infectious Disease Dissemination and Implementation Science (IDDI) Initiative. Led by Virginia McKay, research assistant professor at the Brown School, the initiative is designed to cultivate local and applied research related to the uptake and implementation of evidence-based innovations, practices, procedures or policies that reduce the spread […]
An editorial commentary, co-authored by Drs. Enola Proctor and Elvin Geng, was recently published in the journal Science; it makes recommendations about how adding a “new lane” of implementation science can improve the way we manage crisis’ like COVID-19 moving forward.
We know that the U.S. has been successful in vaccinating those who want the shot however, as we continue to hear about vaccine hesitancy or outright opposition, WashU dissemination and implementation researchers have conducted a study to get to the root of public preference.
Learn to define racism and anti-racism and how an anti-racism approach can refine implementation science’s contributions to health equity research from Derek Griffith, PhD, in this presentation he gave as part of the Center for Dissemination & Implementation’s 2021 Proposal Development Bootcamp.
St. Louis Magazine features the research of Washington University D&I researchers Dr. Rupa Patel and Dr. Alex Ramsey and their quest to understand: How can we use what we already know to make people healthier?
Using an implementation science approach to guide a multi-level program adaptation, Housten’s team is adapting and evaluating the coordinated care model, Ending Metastatic Breast Cancer for Everyone (EMBRACE), from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, to the St. Louis region.