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.
Two WashU centers, community health workers and partner community organizations are rallying together to provide Covid-19 vaccines to area communities.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
Short courses, trainings and informative classes help prepare the next generation of WashU D&I scientists.