CCIS Public Goods and Action Groups

The ongoing efforts of the Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science are supported by CCIS action groups through the development of public goods (widely available tools and resources) to address key challenges and advance the implementation science agenda in cancer.

If you are interested in joining a CCIS action group, please email CCIS@icf.com to be added on the listserv.

ACTION GROUPS

 

Community Participation in Implementation Science

2020 - Present

The goal of this action group is to advance implementation science through identifying, elevating, and enhancing community-engaged research. Major goals include building competencies in research design and evaluation.

Public Goods

Resources

Environmental Health and Implementation Science

The goals of this action group are to foster transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral interactions and collaborations, and to learn to address key environmental and occupational health challenges using and advancing implementation science.

Implementation of Complex/Multilevel Interventions

The goals of this action group are to explore the interface of complex/multilevel interventions and implementation science, and to produce goods, tools, and tutorials to guide others seeking to apply implementation science to understand, design, and evaluate complex/multilevel interventions.

Resources

Implementation Science in Global Health

2020 – Present

The goal of this action group is to focus on implementation science research and practice for global cancer control through collaboration and capacity building. The group aims to identify opportunities and potential strategies to increase the translation of evidence-based cancer control interventions into practice in both scalable and sustainable ways.

Articles

Resources

Learning Healthcare Systems as Natural Laboratories

The goal of this action group is to identify opportunities and challenges to employing implementation science in learning healthcare system development, innovation, and evaluation. The action group hopes to promote and guide implementation research that examines the individual and collective importance of patient, clinician, and organizational/administrative attributes driving the systematic uptake of proven-effective interventions within learning healthcare systems.

Articles

  • LeLaurin JH, Pluta K, Norton WE, Salloum RG, Singh Ospina N. Time to de-implementation of low-value cancer screening practices: a narrative review. BMJ Qual Saf. 2025 May 20:bmjqs-2025-018558. doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2025-018558. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40393787***§§§

Implementation and Technology

The goal of this action group is to identify effective, evidence-based technologies; understand best practices, barriers, and facilitators of their adoption; and identify and address the evidence gaps that must be filled to move the field forward. This action group focuses on how health information and digital technologies can support the provision of guideline-concordant cancer prevention and care.

Articles

  • Owens-Jasey C, Chen J, Xu R, et al. Implementation of Health IT for Cancer Screening in US Primary Care: Scoping Review. JMIR Cancer. 2024;10:e49002. Published 2024 Apr 30. doi:10.2196/49002 §
  • Huguet N, Chen J, Parikh RB, et al. Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Implementation Science. Online J Public Health Inform. 2024;16:e50201. Published 2024 Apr 22. doi:10.2196/50201 §§§§

Webinars

INACTIVE GROUPS

These action groups are no longer active.

 

Economics and Cost in Implementation Science

2019 - 2020

The goal of this action group was to better understand implementation costs and who bears them, and to distinguish between the intervention and implementation costs.

Articles

Implementation Science Study Designs

2019 - 2022

The goal of this action group was to identify optimal research methods and study designs that accommodate rapid changes in context and responsive adaptations in the intervention and outcomes.

Precision Health and Big Data in Implementation Science

2019 - 2020

The goal of this action group was to guide and support efforts on emerging precision health activities along the cancer care continuum; build capacity through training programs for precision health researchers, clinicians, and communities; establish networks to develop measures and analytic tools specific to precision health and big data; and conduct pragmatic studies using learning health care system models.

Rapid Cycle Design in Implementation Science

2019 - 2020

The goal of this action group was to develop guidance for advancing methodology related to rapid cycle designs.

Workshop

Note

This work is supported (or partially supported) by the Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science (CCIS) Public Good Awards.

* Cycle 1 Funding – October 2021
** Cycle 2 Funding – April 2022
*** Cycle 3 Funding – March 2023

This work is responsive to priorities identified by action group members in 2019§, 2020§§, 2021§§§, 2022§§§§, or 2023 §§§§§.