Byron Powell, PhD, is named co-director of the Institute’s Center for Dissemination & Implementation.
Powell named co-director of Center for Dissemination & Implementation

Byron Powell, PhD, is named co-director of the Institute’s Center for Dissemination & Implementation.
Meet Asst. Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at WashU’s School of Medicine, Lindsey Filiatreau, PhD, MPH. She’s in the center collaborator dissemination & implementation SPOTLIGHT!
Read more about the collaborative symposium on Antimicrobial Stewardship’s role in health care and infectious disease prevention. It was recently hosted by the Center for D&I at the Institute for Public Health and WashU’s Division of Infectious Diseases.
Get ready for the 2023 D&I Proposal Development Bootcamp. Submit your proposal by Sept. 13th!
Four research projects have received pilot funding from the Center for Dissemination & Implementation.
Cory Bradley, PhD, MSW, MPH wraps up his final year as a postdoc. Read about how he uses implementation science as tool for “justice making.”
Director of the Center for D&I recommends a book on how discourse
Learn more about the D&I Introductory Workshop at WashU!
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation is offering a new funding mechanism for post-docs and faculty investigators. Read more!
April 3 is the deadline to apply for the third cohort of the HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Health Implementation Research Institute!
Center for Dissemination & Implementation Director, Elvin Geng, MD, reviews the book, Invention and Innovation.
Learn more about our Center for Dissemination & Implementation student collaborator, Flora Cohen and her work in Uganda.
In this blog post by WashU Assistant Professor, Charles Goss, PhD, read about and watch a presentation on MAISYs by Professor Daniel Almirall, PhD, from the University of Michigan..
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health calls for grant applications for 2023 Pilot Projects Program and Small Grants Program. Our center’s seed funding programs are designed to support a broad range of dissemination and implementation studies, and aim to support the development of projects to the point at which […]
Meet Callie Walsh-Bailey, MPH, doctoral student and emerging bright star on the implementation science scene.
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation has awarded researchers with RAD and MMAD funding. Find out what this funding is and how it can impact key projects.
The recent D&I Rural Health Symposium helped build collaborations among rural health care providers and implementation scientists.
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation hosted its annual proposal development bootcamp. Read more about who attended and what they learned.
Read a reflection from Faculty Scholar, Nan Raghuraman, one of the attendees at the inaugural D&I Day at WashU!
HIGH IRI first and second cohorts of fellows and faculty convene in person for the first time at a three-day training at WashU.
In this blog post, Elvin Geng, MD, reflects on an article that explores unintended harm on the most vulnerable populations.
Learn about how one researcher has used his engagement with our center and its programs to expand funding and amplify his work.
Submit your request to participate in the eighth annual D&I Proposal Development Bootcamp!
Faculty Scholar & primary investigator, Maura Kemper and team are looking at digital tools as a means to prevent cancer in rural Missouri. The study was funded in part, by a pilot grant from the institute’s Center for Dissemination & Implementation.
Institute Faculty Scholar, Ginger McKay and colleague, Kneeshe Parkinson, are working to bring an international program for women living with HIV to St. Louis.
HIGH-IRI has completed its first year of training to great success. See what a few of its participants are saying about their training.
RAD funding from the Center for Dissemination & Implementation can boost your research projects’ established intervention or extend the spectrum of the work.
Byron Powell is the new associate director of the Center for D&I. He has big plans working alongside Director, Elvin Geng.
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health calls for grant applications for its 2022 Pilot Projects Program and Small Grants Program. Our center’s seed funding programs are designed to support a broad range of dissemination and implementation studies, and aim to support the development of projects to the point at […]
The Institute for Public Health’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation, the Brown School and the School of Medicine’s Infectious Disease Division at Washington University in St. Louis have collaborated to launch the Infectious Disease Dissemination and Implementation Science (IDDI) Initiative. “The time is right for a collaborative effort in implementation science and a broad swath of […]
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation at the Institute for Public Health has awarded Rapid Cycle D&I Add-on (RAD) awards to two research studies in order to rapidly respond to untapped opportunities in D&I. Our center’s Rapid Cycle D&I Add-on (RAD) grants fund up to $20,000 in direct costs and enable researchers doing clinical or effectiveness research […]
Prior to recent shifts in global policy, in Zambia and many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, people living with HIV were only treated once their disease had progressed to a point where it caused some degree of immunosuppression or they had complications of HIV like tuberculosis. In the past five to seven years, policies to […]
Researchers at the post-doctoral or junior faculty level who are interested in Infectious Disease, HIV and Global Health now have a new, world-class training and mentorship opportunity. Hosted by the Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, the HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Health Implementation […]
We know that the U.S. has been successful in vaccinating those who want the shot however, as we continue to hear about vaccine hesitancy or outright opposition, WashU dissemination and implementation researchers have conducted a study to get to the root of public preference. The study, entitled, “Preferences for COVID-19 vaccine distribution strategies in the […]
Dr. Elvin Geng outlines a recent study he co-authored that explains predictors of those who are hesitant or on the fence about getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
An ongoing project lead by Institute Faculty Scholar, Ashley Housten, is using implementation science to adapt an evidence-informed intervention.
Read more about the projects that have most recently been granted funding through the Center for D&I pilot grant program.
The Center for D&I helps researchers find opportune ways in which to add D&I Science to their research. Read more.
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation at the Institute for Public Health didn’t let 2020 dampen its efforts to fund vital research projects. A total of $144,070 has been awarded via CDI’s Pilot/Small Grants programs and its Rapid Add-On (RAD) funding program to seven projects each led by Institute for Public Health Faculty Scholars. Two […]
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation has awarded $15,000 in Rapid Add-on Funding to the following study, which centers on the impact of a lapse in education to Pakistani and Afghani children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The RAD funding mechanism enables investigators to rapidly “add-on” measurements or pilot data collection to an existing observational or experimental research […]
The end of shelter-in-place policies in Missouri has led to a new wave of uncertainty about the future: Will the epidemic get worse? If so, how quickly? And if it gets worse, how quickly will we know and how bad will it get? LEMMA is a simple compartmental model using an Approximately Bayesian Computation approach […]
Byron Powell never intended to become an academic. He wanted to become a high school social worker and a basketball coach, and to have the opportunity to support the growth and development of young people and their families. In preparation, he earned an MA from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of […]
The Center for Dissemination and Implementation has been active in on-campus events, talks and activities. Videos representing talks by center staff and Faculty Scholars are available here: How to Engage with Policymakers a workshop for academics with Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSWDr. Prusaczyk draws on her experience as a health and aging policy fellow to discuss how […]
Written by Kim Furlow, communications manager at the Institute for Public Health and Beth Prusacyk, PhD, MSW, Institute faculty scholar & instructor of medicine in the Division of General Medical Sciences “It’s the wonkiest science of science,” says Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, Institute of Public Health Faculty Scholar and Dissemination and Implementation Science practitioner. She gets […]
If you were on Twitter during the week of September 13-14, you must have seen the handles #impsci and #SIRC2019 heavily trading, especially in Seattle. That’s because a number of us were attending the 5th Biannual Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC), hosted at the University of Washington. SIRC’s mission is to facilitate the communication […]
Written by Paola Montalvo Ayala, coordinator & Matthew Brown, (former) manager of the Center for Dissemination & Implementation Family-Based Treatment for Childhood Obesity (FBT) is a behavioral weight control intervention for children with obesity. Despite its recognized efficacy, it is mainly available in specialty clinics. Due to barriers posed by fragmentation of care and lack […]
Written by Kim Furlow, communications manager for the Institute for Public Health The Center for Dissemination and Implementation (CDI) Seed Funding Program annually awards funding to multiple projects to help advance D&I research. The awards are managed by the CDI, and funded in part or fully by various partners. These seed funding awards are designed […]
On April 5, 2017 the Center for Dissemination and Implementation held its third annual Dissemination and Implementation Proposal Development Bootcamp. The bootcamp is designed to stimulate the development of innovative grant proposals in dissemination and implementation (D&I) science and to prepare researchers to compete successfully for grant funding. Dr. Mark McGovern of Stanford University kicked off the […]
Written by Alex Ramsey, instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine Implementation science has generally been viewed as the final step in the research translation process and only in the context of long-standing and well-validated interventions. There is reason to believe, however, that we should be considering implementation issues earlier in the […]
The Center for Dissemination & Implementation pilot and small grants program at the Institute for Public Health announces funding for seven projects. Two are co-funded by our Center for Global Health, two fully funded by the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine, and three are fully funded by our Center for […]