Sarah Lord
Dartmouth College, NH·Public Health & Epidemiology
Health treatments proven in studies often fail to reach patients, or fade away once a study ends. Implementation science studies how to get evidence-based interventions (EBIs), meaning programs and practices shown to work, adopted and kept in use in real clinics and communities.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
implementation science
evidence-based interventions
adaptation
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2030
What they work on
- Provide hybrid in-person and virtual training, mentoring and consultation so center investigators gain practical skills in implementation research, with recorded sessions posted online.
- Help projects apply the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to identify barriers and helpers to adoption and to choose strategies that overcome the barriers.
- Document changes to evidence-based interventions and strategies using FRAME, a framework for reporting adaptations, and evaluate outcomes with the RE-AIM framework (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance).
- Harmonize data collection across projects to seed a repository for studying contextual factors, adaptations and outcomes, and track investigator milestones and satisfaction.
More about the research
Three problems remain open. There is little practical guidance on how changes to an intervention affect its results. Researchers are limited in their ability to design high-impact implementation studies. And little work has evaluated how adapted interventions can be kept going over the long term.
Why it matters
By helping researchers study how interventions are adapted, delivered and maintained, this work could help proven health programs reach more people and stay in use in real-world settings. A shared data repository could reveal which contextual factors and adaptations lead to lasting adoption, which could guide efforts to improve population health.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Dovie Watson
University of Pennsylvania, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Identify changeable provider-, practice-, and community-level factors that affect PrEP delivery in primary care, using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), a structured list of factors that shape program adoption.
Melanie Warziski Turk
Duquesne University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Identify barriers and facilitators to using the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) through about 15 interviews each with MDPP and NDPP suppliers, MDPP participants, and eligible non-participants, plus CFIR-based surveys of program suppliers.
Sasha Gorrell
University of California-San Francisco, CA·Psychology
Engage youth, caregivers and clinician stakeholders during a preparatory phase to adapt a single-session consultation protocol for families waiting for specialty eating disorder treatment.
The school
Dartmouth College: 16 labs on PI Pages, $418M a year on research, 104 research doctorates a year.
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