Wynne E. Norton, PhD, is a Program Director with the Implementation Science team in the Office of the Director in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Norton serves as an NCI scientific contact for several notices of funding opportunities, including Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01, R21, and R03) and Pragmatic Trials across the Cancer Control Continuum (UG3/UH3). She has a secondary appointment in the Tobacco Control Research Branch in the Behavioral Research Program in DCCPS. Dr. Norton is the NIH Representative for the Implementation Science Core for the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory. She contributes scientific expertise to the Exercise and Nutrition Interventions to Improve Cancer Treatment-related Outcomes in cancer survivors.
In recent years, Dr. Norton participated scientifically in several Cancer MoonshotSM projects. She served as a Project Scientist for the Implementation Science Centers for Cancer Control and contributed implementation science expertise to the Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and Follow-up Through Implementation Science Consortium and the Improving the Management of Symptoms During and Following Cancer Treatment Consortium. She has served as faculty for the NCI Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation in Cancer and is a current member of the DCCPS Clinical Trials Coordination Group. She also serves on the editorial board for the journal Implementation Science.
Dr. Norton’s scientific interests include pragmatic trials of implementation strategies, de-implementation of ineffective practices, data sharing in implementation science, and rapid cycle interventional research in cancer care delivery. In collaboration with NCI colleagues in the Healthcare Delivery Research Program, she served as a co-director for a virtual short course (2022) on cluster randomized trial designs and as a co-chair of a virtual workshop (2022) on advancing rapid cycle research to improve cancer-related care.
Prior to joining NCI in 2015, Dr. Norton was an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Norton was a 2010 Fellow in the Implementation Research Institute and a Fellow in the 2015 Mixed Methods Research Training Program. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Connecticut, with her dissertation funded by a F31 individual National Research Service Award grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. She received her BA in psychology with honors from the College of William and Mary.
Select Publications
- Rabin BA, Smith JD, Dressler EV, et al. Designing for data sharing: Considerations for advancing health equity in data management and dissemination. Transl Behav Med. 2024;14(11):637-642. doi:10.1093/tbm/ibae049.
- Smith JD, Norton WE, Mitchell SA, et al. The Longitudinal Implementation Strategy Tracking System (LISTS): feasibility, usability, and pilot testing of a novel method. Implement Sci Commun. 2023;4(1):153. Published 2023 Nov 28. doi:10.1186/s43058-023-00529-w.
- Norton WE, Neta G, Jacobsen PB. National Cancer Institute funding for rapid cycle interventional research in cancer care delivery. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2023;7(6):pkad089. doi:10.1093/jncics/pkad089.
- Norton WE, Kennedy AE, Mittman BS, Parry G, Srinivasan S, Tonorezos E, Vanderpool RC, & Jacobsen PB. Advancing rapid cycle research in cancer care delivery: A National Cancer Institute workshop report. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2023;115(5):498-504. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djad007.
- Norton WE, Loudon K, Chambers DA, Zwarenstein M. Designing provider-focused implementation trials with purpose and intent: Introducing the PRECIS-2-PS tool. Implement Sci. 2021;16(1):7. doi: 1186/s13012-020-01075-y.
- Norton WE, Chambers DA. Unpacking the complexities of de-implementing inappropriate health interventions. Implement Sci. 2020;15(1):2. doi: 1186/s13012-019-0960-9.
- Norton WE, Chambers DA, Kramer BS. Conceptualizing de-implementation in cancer care delivery. J Clin Oncol. 2019;37(2):93-96. doi:1200/JCO.18.00589.
- Chambers DA, Vinson CA, Norton WE. Advancing the Science of Implementation Across the Cancer Continuum. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2018.