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 identify important work in community participation in implementation science that will move the field forward. Major gaps to be addressed include insufficient or late engagement, finding a place on the continuum of engagement, and measures, competencies, engagement, and impact.
Public Goods
Webinars
- Implementation Strategies Adapted for Communities Enhancing Health Equity Through a New Compilation§§§§
- Joining Forces: Engagement Science and Implementation Science to Advance Health Equity§§
Resources
- Engaging With Rural Communities: Tips and Best Practices For Researchers and Practitioners in Implementation Science§§ (to view this resource, please send a request to CCIS@icf.com)
- Resources for Stakeholder and Community Engagement§§
- Spotlight On Program Champions**§§§
Context and Equity in Implementation Science
2019 - Present
The goal of this action group is to focus on how the implementation science community can advance and make more explicit the incorporation of health equity and context across cancer prevention and control research.
Public Goods
Webinars
- Implementation Science: Context & Equity in Cancer Research§§
- Opportunities for Examination of Structural Racism and other Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity through Implementation Science§§
- Framing Priorities for Advancing Health Equity Through Implementation Science (1/3 series)§§
Podcast
- Catch the Power*§ developed by Cory D. Bradley, PhD, MPH, MSW
Resources
- Advancing Healthy Equity through Implementation Science: Bibliography and Resources§
- Readings/Resources/Curricula on Anti-Racism & Health Equity§ developed by the Columbia Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Implementation Science Initiative (to view this resource, please send a request to CCIS@icf.com)
- Places Cancer Screening Rates and Social Determinants of Health Mapping Dashboard*§ developed by Cici X.C. Bauer, PhD, MS
Articles
- Adsul P, Chambers D, Brandt HM, et al. Grounding implementation science in health equity for cancer prevention and control. Implement Sci Commun. 2022;3(1):56. Published 2022 Jun 3. doi:1186/s43058-022-00311-4. §
- Shelton RC, Adsul P, Oh A. Recommendations for Addressing Structural Racism in Implementation Science: A Call to the Field. Ethn Dis. 2021;31(Suppl 1):357-364. Published 2021 May 20. doi:18865/ed.31.S1.357. §
- Yousefi Nooraie R, Kwan BM, Cohn E, et al. Advancing health equity through CTSA programs: Opportunities for interaction between health equity, dissemination and implementation, and translational science. J Clin Transl Sci. 2020;4(3):168-175. Published 2020 Jan 28. doi:1017/cts.2020.10. §
Environmental Health and Implementation Science
The goal of this action group is to foster transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral interactions, collaborations, and learning 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 understand the interface of multilevel interventions and implementation science, explore the interface of complex interventions and implementation science, and to produce goods and tutorials to help others seeking to work at the interface of these disciplines.
Resources
- Understanding functions and forms of complex/multilevel interventions: case studies and recommendations*§§developed by Jessica D. Austin, PhD
Implementation Science in Global Health
2020 – Present
This action group focuses on implementation science research and practice for global cancer control, with a particular focus on low- to middle-income countries. The group aims to identify the gaps, needs, and priorities for implementation science to improve and increase the translation of evidence-based cancer control strategies into practice in ways that are both scalable and sustainable.
Articles
- Parascandola M, Neta G, Salloum RG, Shelley D, Rositch AF. Role of Local Evidence in Transferring Evidence-Based Interventions to Low- and Middle-Income Country Settings: Application to Global Cancer Prevention and Control. JCO Glob Oncol. 2022;8:e2200054. doi:1200/GO.22.00054. §§
- Trinkley KE, Glasgow RE, D'Mello S, Fort MP, Ford B, Rabin BA. 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. Implement Sci Commun. 2023;4(1):116. Published 2023 Sep 19. doi:1186/s43058-023-00494-4.** §§§
Resources
- State of the Science of Scale-Up of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review*§§ developed by Tara Friebel-Klingner, PhD, MPH and Gloria Guevara Alvarez, PhD, MPPA
- Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) Webtool** §§§ developed by Katy Trinkley, PharmD, PhD
Learning Healthcare Systems as Natural Laboratories
The goals of this action group are to promote and guide implementation science activities that successfully leverage the “natural laboratory” features of learning healthcare systems, and to facilitate implementation research that advances the study and understanding of learning healthcare systems to improve healthcare quality, equity, and outcomes. The group aims to promote and guide implementation research within learning healthcare systems and implementation research on learning healthcare systems.
Policy and Implementation Science
The goal of this action group is to develop strategies to support the implementation science community in advancing research in policy implementation related to cancer prevention and control. It focuses on identifying resources to support policy implementation science and to connect investigators working in this space.
Webinars
- Four Ways of Thinking about Policy in Implementation Science§
- Policy Implementation Science Webinar Series§§
- Policy Implementation Science: A Critical Component of Evidence Translation webinar (1/5)
- Improving the Use of Scientific Evidence in Policy Formulation webinar (2/5)
- Adoption of Evidence-Based Policy in Governmental and Non-Governmental Sectors webinar (3/5)
- Strategies for Integrating Evidence into Policy Implementation webinar (4/5)
- Reflection on Policy Implementation Science: Growing the Field webinar (5/5)
Resources
- EQUIMAP: EQUity-focused Implementation Measurement and Assessment of Policies***§§§§ developed by Gabriella McLoughlin, PhD, MS
- Policy Atlas: Policy and Public Health Data for Researchers, Policymakers, and Community Advocates (to view this resource, please send a request to CCIS@icf.com)
- Policy Implementation Science: NIH-Funded Case Examples and Lessons Learned* §§ developed by Jamie F. Chriqui, PhD, MHS
- Resources for Policy in Implementation Science** §§§ developed by Randy Schwartz, MSPH and Matthew F. Hudson, PhD, MPH
- Lessons Learned from Practice-Informing Researcher-Practice Partnerships for Policy Implementation Science** §§§ developed by Randy Schwartz and Matthew F. Hudson, PhD, MPH
Articles
- Chriqui JF, Asada Y, Smith NR, Kroll-Desrosiers A, Lemon SC. Advancing the science of policy implementation: a call to action for the implementation science field. Transl Behav Med. 2023;13(11):820-825. doi:10.1093/tbm/ibad034.* §§
- Emmons KM, Chambers DA. Policy Implementation Science - An Unexplored Strategy to Address Social Determinants of Health. Ethn Dis. 2021;31(1):133-138. Published 2021 Jan 21. doi:18865/ed.31.1.133. §§
- Emmons KM, Chambers D, Abazeed A. Embracing policy implementation science to ensure translation of evidence to cancer control policy. Transl Behav Med. 2021;11(11):1972-1979. doi:1093/tbm/ibab147. §§
- Smith NR, Levy DE, Falbe J, Purtle J, Chriqui JF. Design considerations for developing measures of policy implementation in quantitative evaluations of public health policy. Front Health Serv. 2024;4:1322702. Published 2024 Jul 15. doi:10.3389/frhs.2024.1322702
Technology in Implementation Science
This action group focuses on how health information technologies can support the provision of guideline-concordant cancer prevention and care. The group aims to identify which technologies are effective when adopted, barriers and facilitators to their adoption, the evidence gaps that must be filled to move the field forward, and how best to address those gaps.
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
- Research Priorities: Leveraging Health Information Technology to Address Cancer Prevention Disparities in Primary Care §§§§
- Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Implementation Science§§§§§ (to view this resource, please send a request to CCIS@icf.com)
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Speakers: Angela Bradbury, MD, Nathalie Huguet, PhD, Anna Maw, MD, and Katy Trinkley, PharmD, PhD.
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INACTIVE GROUPS
These action groups are no longer active.
Economics and Cost in Implementation Science
2019 - 2020
The goal of this action group aimed to better understand implementation costs and who bears them, and to distinguish between the intervention and implementation costs.
Articles
- Barnett ML, Stadnick NA, Proctor EK, Dopp AR, Saldana L. Moving beyond Aim Three: a need for a transdisciplinary approach to build capacity for economic evaluations in implementation science. Implement Sci Commun. 2021;2(1):133. Published 2021 Dec 4. doi:10.1186/s43058-021-00239-1. §
- Dopp AR, Kerns SEU, Panattoni L, et al. Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices. Implement Sci. 2021;16(1):66. Published 2021 Jun 29. doi:10.1186/s13012-021-01137-9. §
- Eisman AB, Quanbeck A, Bounthavong M, Panattoni L, Glasgow RE. Implementation science issues in understanding, collecting, and using cost estimates: a multi-stakeholder perspective. Implement Sci. 2021;16(1):75. Published 2021 Aug 3. doi:10.1186/s13012-021-01143-x. §
Implementation Science Study Designs
2019 - 2022
This group aimed to address how Implementation Research Study Designs should be reconsidered and specifically adapted to meet the challenges of advancing equity-focused implementation research.
Precision Health and Big Data in Implementation Science
2019 - 2020
The goal of this action group is 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 is 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 §§§§§.