By Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research • March 21, 2024 Almost 36,000 applications remain pending, for an average for 57 days Written Timothy McBride, co-director of the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy and Economics Research March 2024 (updates based on February 2024 data). As the process of unwinding continues, total enrollment in Missouri’s Medicaid […]
By Center for Dissemination & Implementation • February 7, 2024 Written by Vianca Cuevas-Soulette, manager, Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control and Anne Trolard, staff scientist, Center for Dissemination and Implementation More than 70 students, staff and faculty from across WashU’s implementation science community recently convened for the university’s annual “D&I Day”, held at Delmar Divine. The goal of […]
By Center for Dissemination & Implementation • January 3, 2024 Written by Kim Furlow, communications manager at the Institute for Public Health 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. As public health is a key focus of WashU’s […]
Assistant professor Rebecca Lengnick-Hall was published in a leading implementation science journal for collaborative research that describes eight characteristics of high-quality, multilevel implementation research. Make sure to check out the supplemental files where you’ll find tools to make things concrete .
By tinuola.adebukola • October 19, 2023
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.
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.
Cory Bradley, PhD, MSW, MPH wraps up his final year as a postdoc. Read about how he uses implementation science as tool for “justice making.”
Learn about D&I collaborator, Flora Cohen, and her work in Uganda.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.