Section outline

  • Lecture:  Why a science of implementation?

    Describe motivation for implementation science; understand need for rigor in program and implementing world as well as need for thinking about relevance in scholarly settings.  Epi framing:  the central scientific challenge to be one of context, and that heterogeneity is the rule, and suggest that implementation science is the meeting of phenomenology and positivism, which leads directly into the formalization of external validity

    Faculty:  Elvin Geng

    Location:  Mission Hall 1406

    • Session Slides:

    • Session 1 Slides 4/4/19 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading/Viewing:

    • Brownson, Ross C., Graham A. Colditz, and Enola K. Proctor. Dissemination and implementation research in health: translating science to practice. Oxford University Press, 2012. (Chapter 2 - Terminology) File
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    • Proctor, Enola K., et al. "Writing implementation research grant proposals: ten key ingredients." Implementation Science 7.1 (2012): 96. File
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    • Geng et al. Implementation science: Relevance in the real world without sacrificing rigor. PLOS File
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    • Remme, Jan HF, et al. "Defining research to improve health systems." PLoS Med 7.11 (2010): e1001000. File
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    • Madon, Temina, et al. "Implementation science." Science 318.5857 (2007): 1728-1729. File
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    • Lee, Thomas H. "Eulogy for a quality measure." New England Journal of Medicine 357.12 (2007): 1175-1177 File
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    • Gawande, Atul. "Slow ideas." The New Yorker 29 (2013). File
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    • Resources:


      •    http://programscience.com/
      •    http://www.journals.elsevier.com/healthcare-the-journal-of-delivery-science-and-innovation/
      •    http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199398331.html

    • Learning Objectives:

    • 1 - 239 Assignment Introduction and Overview File

    • Assignment: 

    • 1 - Epi 239 (2019) Assignment 1 - Identify a Gap-1 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):