Unintended harm on the most vulnerable populations
In this blog post, Elvin Geng, MD, reflects on an article that explores unintended harm on the most vulnerable populations.
Bringing a Health Equity Lens to Implementation Science Frameworks
Several Institute Faculty Scholars who are experts in Implementation Science summarize their experience at the AcademyHealth Annual Conference.
Modeling tool informs local epidemiological projections
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 […]
Washington University shows D&I pride at international conference
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 […]
More than just the endgame: The role of implementation science for early-stage innovations in behavioral health
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 […]