D&I Core Courses

Supplement your existing training with a tailored introduction to the essentials of Dissemination & Implementation.

Open to: Non degree-seeking students, along with certificate and degree-seeking WashU students, faculty, staff, and medical fellows.

M19-559 Dissemination and Implementation Science (3 credits)

Offered in Fall
• Provide an overview of dissemination and implementation science (i.e., translational research in health);
• Understand the importance and the language of D&I science;
• Learn the designs, methods, and measures relevant to D&I;
• Distinguish differences and similarities across clinical, public health and policy settings;
• Identify selected tools for D&I research and practice.

Part of the Dissemination and Implementation Science PhD concentration and Master of Population Health Sciences curricula

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M17-540 Introduction to Dissemination & Implementation Science (3 credits)

Offered in Fall
• Understand the importance and language of D&I basic science;
• Explore the theories and frameworks that are commonly used in D&I research and practice;
• Describe the importance of context at multiple levels in D&I science;
• Distinguish between implementation strategies and outcomes from those in efficacy and effectiveness research;
• Study designs, methods, and measures that support D&I science. • Understand how D&I science can further your research/practice plans and career.

Part of the Dissemination and Implementation Science PhD concentration and Master of Science in Clinical Investigation curricula

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M17-5420 Designing for Dissemination, Implementation & Sustainability: How to Maximize Impact and Equity (3 credits)

Offered in Fall
• Introduce modern concepts in design thinking and how they affect dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of health interventions;
• Focuses on clinical and public health translational research practice;
• Overview of methods in all stages of the design thinking process (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test);
• Explore how to ensure that products of research (interventions, materials, findings) are developed in ways that match well with the needs, resources, workflows, and contextual characteristics of the target audience and setting to maximize impact and equity.

Part of the Dissemination and Implementation Science PhD concentration and Master of Science in Clinical Investigation curricula

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S55 MPH-5117 Translating Epidemiology into Policy (3 credits)

Offered in Fall
• Explore the epidemiologic basis for health policy;
• Introduce types of policy evidence and policy theories;
• Distinguish study designs for understanding the effect of policy;
• Explore methods of policy communication and current controversies;
• Prerequisite: S55-5002, Foundations of Public Health: Epidemiology

Part of the Dissemination and Implementation Science PhD concentration and Master of Public Health curricula

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M17-541 Implementation Science: Measures, Metrics, and Methods (3 credits)

Offered in Spring • Understand basics in the conceptualization of causality;
• Articulate their relevance to implementation research and in particular to effects that are heterogenous and context-sensitive;
• Describe important considerations in the design of cluster level interventions;
• Relate causal ideas to distinctive concept in to implementation research including of implementation processes, context, adaptation and implementation outcomes;
• Identify and describe important measures in implementation research;
• Understand prevailing systems for appraising science and their shortcomings for implementation research;

Part of the Dissemination and Implementation Science PhD concentration and Master of Science in Clinical Investigation curricula

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M17-5544 Developing and Evaluating Implementation Strategies in Health and Social Services (3 credits)

Offered in Spring
• Develop and evaluate implementation strategies;
• Introduce range of implementation strategies;
• Instruct on how to propose potential mechanisms of change;
• Rigorously evaluate implementation strategies;
• Intervention-, patient-, provider-, organizational-, policy and system-, and multi-level implementation strategies will be covered.

Part of the Dissemination and Implementation Science PhD concentration and Master of Science in Clinical Investigation curricula

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Want more information? Contact Karlee Kreienkamp (k.kreienkamp@wustl.edu) with questions or to register for courses.