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What is Implementation Science?

Implementation Science (IS) is the scientific study of the use of strategies to adopt and integrate evidence-based health interventions into clinical and community settings to improve individual outcomes and benefit population health. The field of implementation science intends to close the gap between what we know (theory & research) and what we do (practice and policy) by identifying and addressing the barriers that prevent or delay the uptake of proven health interventions and evidence-based practices. Dissemination and Implementation research (D&I) intends to bridge the gap between research, practice, and policy by building a knowledge base about how health information, effective interventions, and new clinical practices, guidelines, and policies are communicated and integrated for public health and health care service use in specific settings.

What is the Emory CFAR Implementation Science Hub?

The Emory CFAR Implementation Science (IS) Hub supports IS capacity-building among Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE)-funded investigators, federal partners, and other non-supplement projects beyond those at Emory. The Emory CFAR IS Hub provides training and technical assistance to HIV researchers conducting IS research, uniquely contributes specialized expertise to complement ongoing IS capacity-building activities and the other funded CFAR IS Hubs, and engages in collaborative, multi-site HIV IS research to inform best practices. The Emory CFAR IS Hub is housed in Emory’s CFAR Prevention and Implementation Sciences (PAIS) Core, and will also work with the other CFAR IS Hubs to meet its aims. The Emory CFAR IS Hub will also work in coordination with The Implementation Science Coordination Initiative (ISCI), which oversees the IS Hubs and creates opportunities to share generalizable knowledge to help end the HIV epidemic in the United States.

AIMS/Goals

IS Hub Alignment with Ending The Epidemic (EHE)

The EHE plan acknowledges that we have all the tools necessary to end the US HIV epidemic but are not implementing them adequately in communities with the greatest need, partly due to lack of Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) science knowledge and expertise among HIV scientists. We have compiled a team, drawing on the rich D&I expertise across Emory University, to robustly support the D&I capacity-building needs of EHE grantees and federal partners in general, with specialized technology-focused services and dissemination science trainings and technical assistance.