Enhancing Capacity and Promoting Dissemination & Implementation (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 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. Go 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. Access the Tool and Guide by scrolling to the bottom of this page: http://www.kingsimprovementscience.org/ImpRes .
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. Go to: https://youtu.be/HjViEa53lcY.
Open-Access TIDIRC
This 6-part webinar series provides an introduction and orientation to the science of Dissemination & Implementation. Go to: https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/IS/training-education/orientation.html
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. Click here to read.