Dispatches from Implementation Science at NCI
Amplifying Practitioner Perspectives to Strengthen Implementation Science
By: Margaret Farrell
March 2019
By convening researchers and practitioners in collaboration with NCI’s CIS Partnership program, and later via the Research to Reality Community of Practice, we gained important insights into how NCI can support the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of research-tested interventions in communities and clinics.
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Implementation science to advance clean cooking
Gila Neta
February 2019
In response to this major public health problem, a variety of intervention programs are being implemented by governments and NGOs across the globe to distribute and encourage the use of cleaner cooking technologies.
Sun Safety in the Physical Activity Context: Opportunities and Challenges
Frank Perna
November 2018
Earlier this fall, I had the honor of organizing the NCI Exercise Science and Skin Cancer Prevention Research meeting on September 26-27, 2018, in Rockville, MD.
Collaboration between NCI’s Research-Tested Intervention Programs (RTIPs) website and Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative Clearinghouse Database
Annabelle Uy
October 2018
On September 2016, a new collaboration was established between NCI’s Research-Tested Intervention Programs (RTIPs) website and the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative Clearinghouse Database.
Design thinking and community-based participatory research for Implementation Science
April Oh
September 2018
We need innovation to address our chronic disease burden, and design thinking has emerged as a promising tool.
Comprehensive Cancer Control National Partnership
Prajakta Adsul
August 2018
As defined by the CDC, Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) is an approach that brings together key partners and organizations to develop a plan to reduce the numbers of community members that develop and are diagnosed with cancer.
Where have we been and where should we go?
Gila Neta
July 2018
Building off of our previous efforts to analyze the NCI-funded research portfolio, we recently completed an analysis of dissemination and implementation research funded through the DIRH Program Announcements.
Trials in Implementation Science
Wynne Norton
June 2018
Clinical trials—and randomized clinical trials in particular—have long been argued as having characteristics that seem at odds with the goals of implementation science.
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