Assessing Implementation Strategies for the Uptake of Bundled Interventions to Improve Culturally Relevant Care for Black Women with HIV

Andrea Dakin, PhD, MA, AIDS Foundation Chicago; Serena Rajabiun, PhD, University of Massachusetts Lowell ; Alicia Downes, LMSW AIDS United; Corliss Heath, PhD, US Department of Health and Human Services | March 5, 2024:   The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau(HAB), Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP), Part F- Special Projects of National…

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Implementing Collaborative Care for Co-Occurring Disorders in Low-resourced Settings

Katherine Watkins, MD, MSHS | March 12, 2024: Untreated co-occurring opioid use disorders and mental illness are prevalent and can have devastating consequences for the individual, their families, and the community. The Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) improves outcomes by addressing problems in access and quality for primary care patients with common behavioral health conditions but…

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It Takes a Village: Implementing a Pragmatic Trial to Evaluate a Group Telehealth Intervention for Family Members Affected by Opioid Use Disorder

Karen Osilla, PhD | February 27, 2024: Opioid use disorder (OUD) has devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities. This presentation describes eINSPIRE (INtegrating Support Persons Into REcovery), a pragmatic randomized trial that tests the Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT) intervention delivered via group telehealth therapy compared to usual care. CRAFT is an…

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Eight Characteristics of Rigorous Multilevel Implementation Research: A Step-by-Step Guide

Gregory Aarons, PhD | February 20, 2024: Although healthcare is delivered in inherently multilevel contexts, implementation science has no widely endorsed methodological standards defining the characteristics of rigorous, multilevel implementation research. Presenters will identify and describe eight characteristics of high-quality, multilevel implementation research to encourage discussion, spur debate, and guide decision-making around study design and…

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Four Ways to Conceptualize and Study Policy in Implementation Science Research

Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MSc | February 13, 2024: This presentation will offer a typology of four ways to conceptualize policy in implementation science research: 1) Policy as something to adopt, 2) Policy as something to implement, 3) Policy as context to understand, and 4) Policy as strategy to use. Examples will be provided of studies…

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Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, MSc

Jonathan Purtle is Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management and Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science. Dr. Purtle is an implementation scientist whose research focuses on mental health policy. His work examines questions such as how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and is used…

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SAVE THE DATE! Addiction Health Services Research Conference

The Center for Dissemination and Implementation (CDI) at Stanford University School of Medicine is honored to host the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) conference, October 16-18, 2024, in San Francisco, CA.  Join us at the historic Palace Hotel in the beautiful and bustling city of San Francisco and sign-up for updates about the conference.

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NEW! Implementation Guides and Measures

implementation poster

The Center for Dissemination & Implementation At Stanford (C-DIAS) and the Research Adoption Support Center (RASC) recently developed a set of implementation guides and measures to support researchers and anyone seeking to evaluate or implement a health care innovation.

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