2010 Implementation Science and Global Health Satellite Meeting

Following the Third Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, the Fogarty International Center and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research convened a satellite meeting on Implementation Science and Global Health on March 17, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland. The event brought together Fogarty grantees and trainees working in the field of international implementation science, research training, and curriculum development, and explored strategies to build linkages between implementation science researchers to global healthcare delivery programs.

Meeting Report

Meeting Information and Presentations

Meeting Objectives
Keynote Presentation on Implementation Science
Lynn Freedman, Director, Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program and Law and Policy Project, and Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Photo: in a hotel conference room a woman stands behind a podium next to a long table with three men and one woman seated

The Implementation Science Research panel
presents during the Implementation Science
and Global Health satellite meeting.

Implementation Science Research:
- Effects of community-based follow-up care on the recovery of severely underweight children: a randomized intervention trial
  Kenneth Brown, University of California, Davis (On behalf of Md Iqbal Hossain, ICDDR-B)
- An empirical investigation of the feasibility and importance of implementing a multi-axial diagnostic system for assessing personality disorders in China
  Tianhong Zhang, Shanghai Jia Tong University
- Developing FASD prevention in Russia
  Tatiana Balachova, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Lessons learned on projects of implementation science
  José Belizán, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy
Implementation Science Research Training and Curriculum Development:
- The development of mental health implementation research in China: A review of activities of trainees of the Harvard Medical School ICOHRTA program
  Byron Good, Harvard Medical School
- The development of a global health implementation curriculum
  Philip Keiser, University of Texas Medical Branch
- Designing and conducting dissemination and implementation research training in resource-constrained settings - The experience of ICOHRTA AIDS/TB in Uganda
  Nelson Kakande, Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda
- Future global health jobs and competencies: Views from a survey of global health leaders
  Stephen Gloyd, University of Washington
Building Linkages and Partnerships for Implementation Science:
- A university-NGO linkage program designed to promote research on implementation of nutrition programs in sub-Saharan Africa
  Kenneth Brown, University of California, Davis
- Using multi-level partnerships and mixed research methods to reduce maternal mortality
  Daniel Perlman, University of California, Berkeley
- How to implement research study outcomes into healthcare policy and practice
  Elena Varavikova, Federal Research Public Health Institute on Information and Organization, Russia, and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Program of implementation research on mental health legislative issues in China
  Zhiguo Wu, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Frequently Asked Questions about Implementation Science

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Updated August 2010