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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.
Training Helps Scholars Put Their Research into Practice, Achieve Equity (Links to an external site)
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.
As variant cases continue, a university-community collaborative provides 1,000 COVID-19 vaccines (Links to an external site)
Two WashU centers, community health workers and partner community organizations are rallying together to provide Covid-19 vaccines to area communities.
D&I Rural Health Symposium helps build “stronger collaborations in broader communities” (Links to an external site)
The recent D&I rural health symposium helped build collaborations among rural health care providers and implementation scientists.
2022 Dissemination & Implementation Proposal Development Bootcamp challenges and entertains participants (Links to an external site)
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.
HIGH IRI Institute nurtures global leadership in Implementation Science (Links to an external site)
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.
Could policy strategies be the missing piece in the implementation science puzzle? (Links to an external site)
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.
Mizzou, WashU to co-host symposium on exercise and nutrition in rural communities (Links to an external site)
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.
Request for Submissions! 2022 Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Proposal Development Bootcamp (Links to an external site)
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.
IPH Faculty Scholar helps boost program for women living with HIV (Links to an external site)
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.
HIGH-IRI marks a successful first year of training and collaboration (Links to an external site)
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.
How St. Louis is working to end the HIV epidemic (Links to an external site)
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.
New Health Disparities course available thru the WU Master of Population Health Sciences (MPHS) program (Links to an external site)
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.
Infectious disease D&I initiative launches (Links to an external site)
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 […]
Watch now: Moving Anti-racism in Implementation Science from the Margins to the Center (Links to an external site)
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.
Bringing a Health Equity Lens to Implementation Science Frameworks (Links to an external site)
At the 13th AcademyHealth Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, a team of Washington University D&I scientists led a workshop about equity and implementation science frameworks. Amongst other things, they shared that it is important for implementation scientists to partner with equity and disparities researchers earlier in the research continuum.
Two WashU Institute for Public Health Centers Award Funding
The Center for Community Health Partnership and Research and the Center for Dissemination and Implementation, both at the Institute for Public Health, have awarded seed funding for two public health-related projects. The projects focus on health care for older adults and for those with prostate cancer, respectively. Through its Pitch Partners² funding mechanism, the Center for Community Health Partnership […]
New D&I Science Courses
Short courses, trainings and informative classes help prepare the next generation of WashU D&I scientists.