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Training in Implementation and Dissemination Sciences

What are Implementation and Dissemination Sciences (IDS)?

Implementation and Dissemination Sciences (IDS) comprise a multidisciplinary set of theories, methods and skills that guide research aimed at enhancing the adoption, appropriate adaptation (ie, translation) and spread of best evidence-based practices and policies in clinical care and public health; and the development of best evidence through community engagement. This is also commonly referred to as "T2" and "T3" research.

Research in this area identifies community, patient, clinician and organizational factors that serve as barriers and facilitators to translation; develops intervention, implementation, and dissemination strategies to increase translation, such as quality improvement programs or policies or collaborative research methods; and evaluates the impact of strategies to increase translation of relevant healthful behaviors and processes of care. Translation must encompass a judicious blending of evidence with theory and indigenous wisdom of those who work or live in the practical application situations, often with inter-disciplinary emphasis.

Training

We have formalized training in this type of translational research by:

What will scholars learn in the training program?

  1. Design and Implement More Effective Intervention Programs through learning how to identify community, patient, clinician and organizational factors that serve as barriers and facilitators to translating evidence into practice, policy and public health and identifying the best tools for building interventions that can be tailored and applied in diverse settings.
  2. Design More Comprehensive Evaluations of Interventions through learning the basics of process and outcome evaluation, and by identifying the appropriate qualitative and quantitative measures of effect.
  3. Develop Better Funding Proposals by determining the "quality gap" and making the "business case" for translational programs, and by integrating conceptual frameworks, theory and evidence into the intervention design and/or evaluation of one’s program.

IDS Research at UCSF

UCSF Centers, Departments and Divisions with major emphasis in IDS research

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NIH Funding Acknowledgment

Important: All publications resulting from the utilization of CTSI resources are required to credit the CTSI grant by including the NIH Funding acknowledgment and must comply with NIH Public Access Policy.