Dissemination & Implementation - Community Engagement

Enhancing Capacity and Promoting D&I Best Practices

The IIMS Community Engagement Team is committed to enhancing capacity and promoting best D&I research practices relevant to our partners and region. Our collaborations assemble cross-disciplinary expertise to solve vexing problems. Our goal is to expand productive partnerships between front-line practitioners who understand their workflows and practical constraints and experienced D&I researchers who can offer cutting-edge frameworks, approaches, and evaluation strategies.

What is D&I Research?

Dissemination Research: The scientific study of targeted distribution of information and intervention materials to a specific public health or clinical practice audience. The intent is to understand how best to communicate and sustain knowledge and the associated evidence-based interventions.

Implementation Research: The scientific study of the use of strategies to adopt and integrate evidence-based health interventions into clinical and community settings to improve care, patient outcomes, and population health.

D&I Science Resources

The CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs provides a curated list of resource catalogs relevant to the conduct of D&I science. The resource catalogs gathered here include frameworks/theories/models, methods/measures, funding resources, practice resources, training, and health equity resources. Included resource catalogs are curated/sponsored by academic and non-profit organizations with expertise in D&I; contain multiple resources that are systematically organized; and are (in almost all cases) both open-access and actively maintained/updated.

The Demystifying Implementation Research Workshop: Basics to Beyond provided faculty and clinical scientists partnered with a Clinical Translational Science Award Hub an opportunity to learn more about how Implementation Research investigates adoption, integration, and sustainability of evidence-based practices in world settings to improve population health. This workshop is open to faculty and clinical scientists partnered with a Clinical Translational Science Hub, interested in Improvement Science. Click here to read the Final Workshop Report.

Implementation Science Research Development (ImpRes) Tool and Guide
This tool provides step-by-step instructions for developing an implementation science research study. Click here to access the Tool and Guide.

Orientation to the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
This National Cancer Institute – Training Institute for Dissemination & Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC) introductory video includes featured speakers Rinad Beidas, PhD – University of Pennsylvania, Cara Lewis, PhD – Kaiser Permanente, and Byron Powell, PhD 9 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Click here to watch full video..

Open-Access TIDIRC
This 6-part webinar series provides an introduction and orientation to the science of Dissemination & Implementation. Click here to view webinar series.

Recommended Resource List for Dissemination & Implementation Research Studies
This Resource List has been adapted from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation (TIDIRC) Open Access modules.

Bootstrapping Implementation Research Training Report
Click here to view the published report.

CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs

The CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs provides a curated list of resource catalogs relevant to the conduct of Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) science. The resource catalogs gathered here include frameworks/theories/models, methods/measures, funding resources, practice resources, training resources. Included resource catalogs are curated/sponsored by academic and non-profit organizations with expertise in D&I; contain multiple resources that are systematically organized; and are (in almost all cases) both open-access and actively maintained/updated.

How to use the D&I Catalogs tool: Use the Sort and Filter functions below to view resources in categories of interest, or to view “featured resources.” Use this D&I Resource Suggestion Form(link is external and opens in a new window) to suggest a new catalog for inclusion.

This resource was developed by the Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program’s “Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Sciences in CTSAs” working group. This group focuses on meeting both the conceptual as well as practical challenges to advancing the utilization of D&I across the translational science spectrum. In particular, this group focuses on the “how” of D&I integration within CTSA hubs nationally, and on creating and disseminating practical tools, resources, and insights that CTSAs can use to fully realize the potential of D&I to enhance CTSAs’ mission.