The 2025 Aaron Rosen Lecture will take place on Friday, Jan. 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT. Conference attendees can join in person or via livestream.
Cabassa to deliver 2025 Aaron Rosen Lecture at SSWR conference (Links to an external site)
Category: Education & Training
Register for the 2024 Public Health at WashU Annual Conference, Oct. 21-22
Join us on October 21-22, as WashU Public Health faculty, students and community partners explore these questions and others at the 2024 Public Health at WashU Annual Conference.
Local collaboration key to effective evidence-based training, study finds (Links to an external site)
Collaborating with public health departments and other agencies to deliver training in evidence-based public health can offset the effects of high staff turnover, strengthen academic-practice relationships, and promote population-wide health and health equity, found a new study led by Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan, assistant professor at the Brown School.
Save the Date(s) & Register: 2024 Public Health at WashU Annual Conference!
How can we ensure that the latest technological innovations in health care are equitable and accessible to all? How do we develop a public health workforce that reflects the population it serves and addresses needs in an equitable way? Save the date(s), October 21-22, as WashU Public Health faculty, students and community partners explore these questions and others at the 2024 Public Health at WashU Annual Conference, The Next Era of Public Health: Equity-informed approaches to innovative technologies & workforce development.
Reimagining public health: a path forward (Links to an external site)
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the crucial role of public health, while simultaneously exposing deep political divides and systemic flaws. Confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plummeted by about 20 points per a State Policy Network opinion poll, showing how quickly public trust can be lost and how hard it is to regain.
WashU researchers’ discovery opens new doors to HIV treatment
Scientists from Washington University have uncovered new insights into how HIV weakens the immune system of those it infects. Their findings were published in a recent edition of the journal Cell.
Center offers casual monthly collaboration for anyone interested in implementation science
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation invites those who have a new interest in or who are entrenched in implementation science to visit the monthly WUNDIR Café.
Dissemination and Implementation Science flourishes at WashU centers, institutes and initiatives
Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) science takes what we know and seeks to improve how evidence-based public health solutions are adopted, implemented, and maintained in the real world.
Upcoming annual conference to focus on challenges and opportunities for implementation science (Links to an external site)
Join the 30+ WashU researchers attending the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health in Arlington, VA. This gathering will concentrate on advancing methodologies while also focusing on areas to grow into.
The Center for Diabetes Translation Research (CDTR) solicits applications (Links to an external site)
The CDTR’s 2023 funding cycle offers two levels of awards for its 2023 Pilot and Feasibility Program. Letters of intent are due November 1.
Center names Powell co-director (Links to an external site)
Institute for Public Health leaders are pleased to announce that Brown School Associate Professor, Byron J. Powell, PhD, has been named co-director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation alongside Director, Elvin Geng, MD. Powell also will continue to lead the center’s Implementation Methods & Metascience Initiative.
Center collaborator uses implementation science to advance mental health treatment for HIV patients in South Africa (Links to an external site)
Meet Asst. Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU’s School of Medicine, Lindsey Filiatreau, PhD, MPH. She’s in the center collaborator dissemination & implementation SPOTLIGHT!
Symposium helps advance antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention & implementation science (Links to an external site)
Read more about the collaborative symposium on Antimicrobial Stewardship’s role in health care and infectious disease prevention. It was recently hosted by the Center for D&I at the Institute for Public Health and WashU’s Division of Infectious Diseases.
More work is needed to improve equity focus in public health departments (Links to an external site)
A new study by researchers at WashU’s Prevention Research Center and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors surveyed public health departments in the U.S. to understand current health equity-related work practices and identify ways to bolster equity-focused work in chronic disease prevention and control efforts.
IS-2 Hosts 2023 Summer Institute in St. Louis (Links to an external site)
This summer, researchers from across the U.S. gathered in St. Louis for the second Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2) in-person Institute. The Institute, which is a core component of the IS-2 mentored training program, was held in St. Louis at Washington University’s Bauer Hall (learn more about the first Institute here). In total, over 50 IS-2 Scholars, […]
Request for Submissions! 2023 Dissemination and Implementation Proposal Development Bootcamp (Links to an external site)
Get ready for the 2023 D&I Proposal Development Bootcamp. Submit your proposal by Sept. 13th!
McKay receives NIH support to test cancer treatment tool for children (Links to an external site)
Brown School Research Assistant Professor, Virginia McKay, PhD, is leading a five-year $3.5 million project to test whether an effort to improve cancer treatment for children in Latin America is sustainable over the long term. Read about her work and funding award.
Dissemination and Implementation workshop: Dip your toe in, or take a deep dive! (Links to an external site)
Learn more about the D&I Introductory Workshop at WashU!
Applications are open for the 4th annual SSSI Summer Training Institute (Links to an external site)
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.
Last chance to apply for the latest HIGH IRI cohort (Links to an external site)
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.