To support the ongoing efforts of the Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science, a collection of public goods (widely available tools and resources) has been developed by the CCIS action groups to address key challenges and advance the implementation science agenda in cancer.
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Community Participation in Implementation Science
Webinars
Implementation Strategies Adapted for Communities Enhancing Health Equity Through a New Compilation discussed how a new complication aims to address the gap of implementation strategies, (methods or techniques used to move research to practice), and how they have predominantly been operationalized and studied in healthcare settings.
Resources
- Members of the Community Participation action group have developed a resource document (PDF, 599 KB) for stakeholder and community engagement in implementation science.
- Engaging With Rural Communities: Tips and Best Practices For Researchers and Practitioners in Implementation Science
Context and Equity in Implementation Science
Webinars
The Context and Equity action group held a series of Implementation Science webinars between May 2020 and September 2021:
- Implementation Science: Context & Equity in Cancer Research
- Framing Priorities for Advancing Health Equity Through Implementation Science
- Opportunities for Examination of Structural Racism and other Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity through Implementation Science
- Joining Forces: Engagement Science and Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity
Resources
- Members of the Context and Equity action group have developed a resource document, Advancing Healthy Equity through Implementation Science: Bibliograph and Resources, for those working to advance health equity through implementation science.
- The Columbia Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Implementation Science Initiative developed Readings/Resources/Curricula on Anti-Racism & Health Equity (PDF, 302 KB).
- Places Cancer Screening Rates and SDOH: This R Shiny dashboard is to investigate geographic variation of cancer screening rates and its association with social disparity in the US.
- Dr. Cory Bradley’s podcast series, Catch the Power, aims to provide a more immersive engagement among scholar and activist communities in the movement for health justice through offering exploratory public discourse about contemporary efforts in the literature and facilitating dialogue that builds the capacity of public health, academic research, practice/service delivery, and activist communities to enhance the design and implementation of strategies and interventions that close racialized health disparity gaps.
Articles
Members of the action group have also published a number of relevant articles related to context and equity:
- Grounding Implementation Science in Health Equity for Cancer Prevention and Control.
- Advancing health equity through CTSA programs: Opportunities for interaction between health equity, dissemination and implementation, and translational science.
- Recommendations for Addressing Structural Racism in Implementation Science: A Call to the Field.
Economics and Cost in Implementation Science
Articles
Members of the 2019 Economics & Cost action group have published a series of papers:
- Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices.
- Implementation science issues in understanding, collecting, and using cost estimates: a multi-stakeholder perspective
- Moving beyond Aim Three: a need for a transdisciplinary approach to build capacity for economic evaluations in implementation science
- The full collection of articles is available on the economic evaluation in implementation science website.
Policy and Implementation Science
Webinars
Four Ways of Thinking about Policy in Implementation Science explored innovative approaches to policy in implementation science and aimed to gain fresh insights into public goods for the action group. Jonathan Purtle, a renowned expert in the field, delivered a captivating presentation on the topic.
Policy Action Group Series
The Policy action group held a series of Implementation Science webinars between October 2020 and February 2021.
- Policy Implementation Science: A Critical Component of Evidence Translation webinar
- Improving the Use of Scientific Evidence in Policy Formulation webinar
- Adoption of Evidence-Based Policy in Governmental and Non-Governmental Sectors webinar
- Strategies for Integrating Evidence into Policy Implementation webinar
- Reflection on Policy Implementation Science: Growing the Field webinar
Resources
- The Policy action group also published a commentary in Ethnicity & Disease: Policy Implementation Science - An Unexplored Strategy to Address Social Determinants of Health
- Policy Atlas: A comprehensive database of policy and public health data for researchers, policymakers, and community advocates.
- Policy Implementation Science: NIH-Funded Case Examples and Lessons Learned (PDF, 2.5 MB)
Articles
- Policy Implementation Science - An Unexplored Strategy to Address Social Determinants of Health
- Embracing Policy Implementation Science to Ensure Translation of Evidence to Cancer Control Policy
- Advancing the Science of Policy Implementation: A Call to Action for the Implementation Science Fie
Training Module
TIDIRC: Policy Implementation Science - This lecture provides an overview of policy implementation science and identifies the impacts and challenges of policy dissemination and policy implementation studies including the role of policy makers. This session is part of the curriculum for the Training Institute in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC).
Implementation Science in Global Health
Articles
- Role of Local Evidence in Transferring Evidence-Based Interventions to Low- and Middle-Income Country Settings: Application to Global Cancer Prevention and Control
- The iPRISM Webtool: An Interactive Tool to Pragmatically Guide the Iterative Use of the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model in Public Health and Clinical Settings
Resources
- Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) – Dr. Katy Trinkley developed this tool during Cycle 2 Funding of the CCIS Awards.
Rapid Cycle Design in Implementation Science
Workshop
NCI hosted the Rapid Cycle Research in Cancer Care Virtual Workshop from February 16-17, 2022. The workshop identified principal features that should inform the design of rapid cycle research to improve cancer care delivery, explored multi-faceted barriers toward conducting rapid cycle research in cancer care delivery settings, and generated viable solutions for increasing the quality and quantity of rapid cycle research conducted in cancer care delivery settings.
Technology in Implementation Science
Webinars
Research Priorities: Leveraging Health Information Technology to Address Cancer Prevention Disparities in Primary Care discussed how the use of optimized health information technologies (HIT) could enhance guideline-concordant cancer screening delivery in primary care settings.
Cycle 1 Funding – Awardees and Projects
(Anticipated Completion - September 2022)
- Cici Bauer: Places Cancer Screening Rates and SDOH
- Tara Friebel-Klingner and Gloria Guevara: Scoping Review that Identifies Strategies for Scaling Up EBIs for the Early Detection and Prevention of Cancer
- Jessica Austin: Understanding Functions and Forms of Complex/Multilevel Interventions
- Erin Kenzie: Web-Based Resource and Educational Material Orienting Implementation Researchers to Concepts and Methods of Systems Science
- Jamie Chriqui: Policy Implementation Science: NIH-Funded Case Examples and Lessons Learned
- Cory Bradley: "Catch The Power with Dr. Bradley"
Cycle 2 Funding – Awardees and Projects
(Anticipated Completion - April 2023)
- Maya Foster: Using EBI Mapping to Understand Multilevel Evidence-Based Interventions: Enhancing the Usability of EBI Mapping Tools and Products
- Randy Schwartz and Matthew Hudson: Resources For Policy In Implementation Science and Lessons Learned from Practice-Informing Researcher-Practice Partnerships for Policy Implementation Science
- Eva May: Spotlight on Program Champions: A Series of 1-on-1 Interviews for Insights and Impact Stories
- Katy Trinkley: Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM)
- Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu: Case Studies of Engaging Champions in Implementation Science for Cancer Prevention and Control
Cycle 3 Funding – Awardees and Projects
(Anticipated Completion - March 2024)
- Laura Balis: Developing a New Compilation: Implementation Strategies Adapted for Communities (ISAC)
- Deeonna Farr: Supporting Community-Driven Implementation Science Research by Assessing and Addressing the Needs of Community-Based Organizations and Advocates
- Karen Hicklin: Platform for Optimal Decision Making in Multi-Component Colorectal Cancer Screening Interventions
- Jennifer LeLaurin and Kathryn Pluta: Assessment of Time to De-Implementation of Low-Value Cancer Control Practices & Development of a De-Implementation Resource Repository
- Gabriella McLoughlin: Development of a Policy Implementation Measurement Guide Grounded in Health Equity
- Kristin Morrill: Promoting the Use of The Organizational Theory for Implementation Science (OTIS) Framework Through Development and Dissemination of a Public Good
- Serena Xiong: Applications of Implementation Science Frameworks, Models, and Theories in Cancer Screening Interventions: A Systematic Review
Forthcoming Resources
Additional, publicly available resources from members of the Implementation in Global Health, Implementation of Multilevel Interventions, Implementation Science Study Design, Learning Healthcare Systems as Natural Laboratories, and Technology and Health Communication in Implementation Science action groups will be made available as developed.
If you are interested in joining a CCIS action group, a Slack workspace has been established to allow for communication, resource sharing, and collaboration to help advance the development of public goods.