Resources

Implementation Science Resource Library

We've compiled some of our most commonly used resources for implementation & improvement research.

Last update: 1/23/2025

Questions? Contact us at implementation@vumc.org

  • Dissemination & Implementation Models Webtool An interactive, online resource designed to help researchers and practitioners navigate Dissemination & Implementation models through planning, selecting, combining, adapting, using and linking to measures.

    CFIR Website Guidance on using the CFIR to design and conduct an implementation evaluation, including a CFIR-ERIC implementation Strategy Matching Tool.

    CFIR-ERIC Implementation Strategy Matching Tool If you are using the CFIR to identify potential barriers to implementation, this tool can be used to help guide choice of implementation strategies to mitigate those barriers.

    RE-AIM Resources and Tools The RE-AIM workgroup provides resources, tools and guidance for understanding and applying the RE-AIM framework.

    The EPIS Implementation Framework This site was created to explain and support the EPIS Framework and provides resources for using EPIS including measures and tools (e.g., worksheets, guides).

    UW Implementation Science Resource Hub Introduction to implementation science and an educational roadmap for designing and conducting implementation research.  

    The Audit and Feedback MetaLab This website provides a list of resources to help you design and evaluate A&F Interventions and explain the theory and evidence behind the success or failure of A&F.

    The Implementation Outcomes Operationalization Guide  A translational tool to help researchers and implementation partners identify and select relevant implementation outcomes for their implementation research projects. The Outcomes Crosswalk is a living Excel document that will continue to be refined as feedback is received on its use. Developed by the Implementation Science Coordination Initiative for Ending the HIV Epidemic.

    Implementation Research Logic Model Design Tool helps combine and organize multiple conceptual frameworks to guide different aspects of a project; specify the relationships between constructs across frameworks; and improve the rigor, reproducibility, and transparency of the project (account required). The website also contains templates and guides for using Implementation Research Logic Models. Developed by the Implementation Science Coordination Initiative for Ending the HIV Epidemic.

    Updated 12/21/2023

  • As part of the VUMC Health System implementation Initiative (HSII) Capacity Building Project, toolkits were developed on four implementation strategies. The goal of these toolkits is to inform, educate, and advise future HSII project teams and other health system initiatives on effective and accessible strategies for implementation. The implementation strategies targeted have all demonstrated effectiveness in the healthcare delivery system and are applicable to implementing or evaluating projects across a broad range of topics.

    An implementation blueprint is a comprehensive plan for executing an implementation project that identifies determinants or key factors for carrying out a plan and the best methods to manage these factors. The implementation blueprint includes goals and strategies, scope of planned change, timeframe and milestones, and appropriate performance/progress measures.

    Practice facilitation is a multifaceted approach that involves trained individuals enabling and supporting others in their efforts to adopt and incorporate clinical innovations or guidelines into routine practice. It can include a range of intervention components and other implementation strategies (e.g., education and training) to address challenges with implementation.

    Audit and feedback in healthcare includes a review or summary of clinical performance that is provided to health professionals and allows them to assess and adjust their performance. Audit and feedback is effective for changing health professionals’ behavior and impacting outcomes for patients.

    Rapid qualitative research is an effective and efficient approach for analyzing qualitative data as part of implementation projects. Qualitative data are essential for understanding how and why implementation efforts succeed or fail, yet traditional approaches for collecting and analyzing data are resource and time intensive. Rapid approaches involve streamlined processes that are pragmatic and follow accepted scientific processes, leading to fewer delays in translating clinical research into practice. 

  • Webinar Series

    NCI Implementation Science Webinars Listen in as leaders in the field discuss advanced dissemination and implementation research topics and answer questions from the community.

    QUERI’s Implementation Research Group Cyberseminars Covers diverse topics in implementation science – upcoming & past sessions available (filter by QUERI Implementation Research Group). 

    Workshops

    Dissemination & Implementation Short Course This annual workshop (typically in the fall) includes interactive sessions that navigate the steps from concept and design to adaptation and implementation in practice. Hosted by the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

    DISC Workshops are regular, skill-building workshops led by national experts covering Dissemination & Implementation design and methods topics for health services researchers, faculty, students, and trainees. Hosted by the Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC) at UC San Diego.

  • Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2) The Institute for Implementation Science Scholars (IS-2) is a mentored training program for investigators interested in applying dissemination and implementation methods and strategies to reduce the burden of chronic disease and address health inequities. Scholars are enrolled for two years, application required.

    Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer (TIDIRC) Facilitated Course This training institute to provides participants with a thorough grounding in conducting dissemination and implementation research with a specific focus on cancer, across the cancer control continuum. Despite the focus on cancer in the title, this resource is intended to be an introduction to implementation science methods and approaches regardless of disease area.

    Penn Implementation Science Institute The Institute will give an introduction to the foundations of implementation science (i.e., terminology, conceptual models and frameworks, study design), an overview of advanced topics (implementation strategies, sustainability), tips for grant writing, skill development and writing specific aims for Implementation Science grants, and describe how principles of implementation science can be applied to practical implementation efforts. Annual in June, 4 half days, registration fee.

    HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH IRI) HIGH-IRI offers mentored training in dissemination and implementation research methods focused on HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Health. The program is composed of a two-year period of training and mentorship with two one-week in-residence sessions in St. Louis (at the beginning of the program and at the start of the second year) and remote mentorship throughout the year.

    Implementation Science in Global Health Summer Institute This course will be of interest to researchers, policy makers, funders, and practitioners working in low and middle income settings who are interested in an intensive introduction to Implementation Science. For a subset of participants who are involved in the design and conduct of implementation research, a second week is offered to provide intensive mentorship for the development of the core components of an implementation research protocol.

    Inter-CFAR Implementation Science Fellowship The goal of the fellowship is to support early stage investigators (ESIs) focused on HIV-related research with training and mentoring opportunities in implementation science (IS) to encourage and capacitate ESIs in the submission of successful IS-focused grants. The program, includes didactic, online, and mentored small group training in IS methodology. The applied mentorship focuses on the development of a grant application which incorporates IS methodology and/or training and is intended to culminate in a two-day grant refinement and networking workshop.

  • CTSA Compendium of Dissemination & Implementation Catalogs A listing of external resources that provides a curated list of resource catalogs relevant to the conduct of Dissemination & Implementation science. The resource catalogs gathered here include frameworks/theories/models, methods/measures, funding resources, practice resources and training resources.

Dissemination & Implementation Funding Opportunities

We've curated a list of active funding opportunities for Dissemination and Implementation Research. The list is updated monthly and includes funding opportunity announcements from the NIH, AHRQ and PCORI.

The Dissemination & Implementation Funding Opportunities list is available for download here.