Implementation Science Hubs
Implementation Science Hubs
Hubs support projects with progress reporting to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, they enable the harmonization of implementation outcomes. This allows us to glean lessons learned across contexts and settings involved in EHE activities.
Hubs contribute to:
-Global planning through the ISCI executive committee
-Refinement of our interactive tools
-Development of infrastructure necessary to conduct multisite HIV implementation research
Hub functions & services include:
Tailored Consultations
Webinars
Peer-led Learning Opportunities
FY22 NIH Funded IS Hubs
- R3EDI Hub (Yale)
- MACC+ Hub (Johns Hopkins)
- UAB CFAR IS Hub
- 3R IS Hub (UCLA)
- DISC Hub (UCSD)
- TN CFAR IS Hub (Vanderbilt University)
- RAISE Hub (University of Washington)
- Emory CFAR IS Hub
- Texas IS Hub (Baylor & UTHealth Houston)
Rigorous, Rapid and Relevant Evidence Adaptation and Implementation to Ending the HIV Epidemic (R3EDI)
Yale University
PI: Donna Spiegelman
R3EDI: Rigorous, Rapid and Relevant Evidence aDaptation and Implementation to Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) was awarded to the Yale School of Public Health and CIRA in 2020 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The seven EHE projects assigned to R3EDI in the first year (2020-2021) were based in New York City, New Jersey, Alabama, Mississippi, and Illinois. Three of these initial projects (NYC, New Jersey, and Alabama) are continuing into 2021-2022 to be joined by seven new ones (2021-2023) based in California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Florida, Texas, and New York. R3EDI also provides mentorship to the HIV Implementation Science Fellowship at the Center for AIDS Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Areas of Expertise:
Implementation Science methods, frameworks, strategies, measures and outcomes
HIV/AIDS research
Study design; management of experimental and observational IS studies; data collection; sampling; qualitative, and mixed-methods analytic approaches
Partnership formation and community-based participatory research
Ethical issues in implementation science
R3EDI Hub Website Infographic
Mid-Atlantic CFAR Consortium Plus (MACC+)
Johns Hopkins University
PI’s: Stefan Baral, Sheree Schwartz
The Mid-Atlantic CFAR Consortium Implementation Science Consultation Hub (MACC+) provides technical assistance through coaching, group-based mentorship, training, and review to CFAR investigators, EHE awardees, health department officials, community stakeholders, and other HIV implementation science investigators. Led by Drs. Sheree Schwartz and Stefan Baral, the MACC+ is funded by the NIH under the national EHE initiative. The Hub seeks to accelerate HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies by providing mentoring and technical support to ongoing and future implementation science (IS) projects and investigators. We also offer mentorship and development opportunities through didactic training, applied learning activities, and intensive IS coaching. By expanding collaboration across the CFAR network and strengthening partnerships with Health Departments and community stakeholders, the MACC+ Hub is developing a collaborative network aimed at supporting the EHE agenda and NIH HIV/AIDS research priorities.
What do we offer?
Selecting or better understanding a framework
Exploring ways to engage partners, including utilization of participatory methods, human-centered design and community-led monitoring
Identifying data sources
Defining your target, source, and study population
Framing implementation science research questions and/or refining your specific aims
Developing your logic model
Selecting study designs, including use of adaptive study design methods
Applying implementation outcomes
Use of technologies
And many more!
MACC+ Hub Website
UAB CFAR Implementation Science Hub
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
PI’s: Robin Lanzi, Michael Mugavero
The UAB CFAR Implementation Science Hub services are organized around a research team that consists of experts with training, and experience in three overarching domains: Implementation Science, HIV Content Expertise, and Community Engagement.
Areas of focus and methodology include those specific to the EHE Supplement Projects such as: qualitative and mixed methods, partnership formation and ongoing relationships with health departments ASO’s, CBO’s, government agencies as well as social media strategies and inter-CFAR networks and leadership, program evaluation and data management.
Aims:
Coaching: Centered on developing a project development plan with each supplement/project PI
Consultation: Guidance on application of the IS logic model and identification of appropriate outcome measures for each project
Dissemination: Guidance on scholarly products informed by the project development plan as well as consideration to subsequent grant applications
Collaboration: Achieved with ISCI and the other IS Hubs via the evaluation working group, training seminars, and workshops
Conducting: Cross-Hub multisite pilot implementation research project to inform the field of HIV IS regarding best practices towards achieving EHE targets
UAB CFAR IS Hub
Rapid, Rigorous, Relevant (3R) Implementation Science Hub
The University of California Los Angeles
PI: Alison Hamilton
The UCLA Rapid, Rigorous, Relevant (3R) Implementation Science Hub provides leadership and support for HIV-related implementation research emphasizing pragmatic study designs and methods that address health equity and produce sustainable solutions. The Hub is supported by an Ending the HIV Epidemic supplement award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The unique goal of the Hub is to provide leadership and support for rapid, rigorous, and relevant (3R) HIV-related implementation research emphasizing pragmatic study designs and methods that address health equity and produce sustainable solutions.
Aims:
Provide consultation, coaching, and technical assistance to Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) grantees, with a focus on cutting-edge 3R content, methods, strategies, models, theories, and frameworks
Accelerate HIV research impacts by a) collaborating with ISCI, the other Implementation Hubs, and IS consortia and centers and b) identifying resources and opportunities for advancing evidence-based interventions through the implementation pipeline
Provide and promote a platform for multidisciplinary collaborations in support of developing HIV- related implementation research and supporting the next generation of diverse IS investigators
Conduct a cross-Hub multisite pilot implementation research project.
EHE awardees assigned to the UCLA 3R Hub will have access to individualized consultation, coaching, and technical assistance sessions; timely roundtable feedback; IS methods workshops; expert discussion sessions; and access to lectures and resources that will advance the application of IS concepts, theories, frameworks, and methods.
3R IS Hub YouTube Channel
UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC)
The University of California San Diego
PI’s: Borsika Rabin, Nicole Stadnick
Dissemination and implementation research 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. (NIH PAR-19-274). Recognizing the need for increased capacity in D&I research, training and leadership, we established the UC San Diego DISC in 2020 as a center focusing on dissemination and implementation science across UC San Diego Health Sciences. Key activities provided by the UC San Diego ACTRI DISC include training, consultation, technical assistance, and mentoring to advance D&I science with a local, national, and global impact..
Mission:
Establish UC San Diego as a nationally and internationally recognized flagship for dissemination and implementation (D&I) science through training, technical assistance, community engagement, and research advancement.
Vision:
Advance UC San Diego’s public health impact locally and globally through D&I science.
DISC Hub Website
Tennessee CFAR Implementation Science Hub
Vanderbilt University
PI’s: April Pettit, Carolyn Audet
We have a strong team of clinicians and researchers who are very excited to work with the EHE Supplement Projects on developing and testing new strategies to improve the HIV care cascade in the United States. Our expertise include: Health equity/health disparities, community engagement, adaptation of EBI’s, quality improvement, learning health systems, clinical provision of HIV prevention and treatment services, and collaboration with public health.
Core Activities:
Leveraging Vanderbilt Clinical Quality and Implementation Research (CCQIR) activities (Webinars, manuscript presentations)
Studio model borrowed from Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) grant reviews
Dissemination of EHE study results
TN CFAR IS Hub
Research Alliance in Implementation Science to End HIV/AIDS
The University of Washington
PI: Kenneth Sherr
RAISE builds on the expertise of UW/Fred Hutch CFAR’s Implementation Science Core, and its faculty Kenneth Sherr, Matthew Golden, Christine Khosropour, Arianna Means as well as other affiliated members. RAISE is one of nine Implementation Science Consultative Hubs across the country that provide implementation science consultation to NIH-funded EHE research projects designed to improve the uptake and effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions and bend the curve on the HIV epidemic in the US. RAISE also works in partnership with the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) to provide technical assistance in implementation research to health departments in EHE jurisdictions.
Objectives:
Provide implementation science consultation services to a subset of NIH-supported EHE research projects.
Develop and support generalizable knowledge through cross-hub implementation science research.
Working in collaboration with NASTAD, provide implementation science education and consultation to EHE health departments and develop a platform that links health departments with implementation researchers to promote new research collaborations that are responsive to health department needs, enhance the impact EHE activities, and build long-term collaborative infrastructure to end the HIV epidemic.
RAISE Hub Website
Emory CFAR Implementation Science Hub
Emory University
PI: Jessica Sales
Our central purpose is to advance research and interventions designed to prevent new infections and improve health equity in populations living with and at risk for HIV. We accomplish this by supporting the implementation of evidence-based biomedical, behavioral, and social prevention intervention and research methods for studies of pre-exposure prophylaxis, treatment as prevention, technology-supported prevention, and geospatial analyses.
What we offer:
Design and programming of web-based behavioral surveys
Molecular Laboratory and university partnership best practices
Integration of STI biomarkers in behavioral research
Data collection methods, analysis, and integration
Research participant management and retention
Project management for HIV research studies
Intervention design and adaptation
Mobile app development
Geospatial data analysis
Implementation study designs
Implemenations frameworks, measures, and outcome
Emory CFAR IS Hub Website
Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV
Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Intitute
PI: Chris Markham
The Texas IS Hub is a component of the Texas D-CFAR. The Texas D-CFAR focuses its research on the theme “Ending HIV and optimizing HIV health in Texas.” The Texas IS Hub is now one of nine national Implementation Science Consultation Hubs working with the HIV Implementation Science Coordination Initiative supporting NIH-funded Ending HIV Epidemic supplement projects across the country.
Over the next year, the Texas IS Hub will provide consultation to 8-10 HIV/AIDS research teams. The Hub will also provide local trainings, The Hub will also provide local and national trainings, curated access to implementation science theories, frameworks, and capacity building activities like workshops and grant advisement.
Texas IS Hub Website
- R3EDI Hub (Yale)
- MACC+ Hub (Johns Hopkins)
- UAB CFAR IS Hub
- 3R IS Hub (UCLA)
- DISC Hub (UCSD)
- TN CFAR IS Hub (Vanderbilt University)
- RAISE Hub (University of Washington)
- Emory CFAR IS Hub
- Texas IS Hub (Baylor & UTHealth Houston)
Rigorous, Rapid and Relevant Evidence Adaptation and Implementation to Ending the HIV Epidemic (R3EDI)
Yale University
PI: Donna Spiegelman
R3EDI: Rigorous, Rapid and Relevant Evidence aDaptation and Implementation to Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) was awarded to the Yale School of Public Health and CIRA in 2020 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The seven EHE projects assigned to R3EDI in the first year (2020-2021) were based in New York City, New Jersey, Alabama, Mississippi, and Illinois. Three of these initial projects (NYC, New Jersey, and Alabama) are continuing into 2021-2022 to be joined by seven new ones (2021-2023) based in California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Florida, Texas, and New York. R3EDI also provides mentorship to the HIV Implementation Science Fellowship at the Center for AIDS Research at Johns Hopkins University.
Areas of Expertise:
Implementation Science methods, frameworks, strategies, measures, and outcomes
HIV/AIDS research
Study design; management of experimental and observational IS studies; data collection; sampling; quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods analytic approaches
Partnership formation and community-based participatory research
Ethical issues in implementation science
R3EDI Hub Website Infographic
Mid-Atlantic CFAR Consortium Plus (MACC+)
Johns Hopkins University
PI’s: Stefan Baral, Sheree Schwartz
The Mid-Atlantic CFAR Consortium Implementation Science Consultation Hub (MACC+) provides technical assistance through coaching, group-based mentorship, training, and review to CFAR investigators, EHE awardees, health department officials, community stakeholders, and other HIV implementation science investigators. Led by Drs. Sheree Schwartz and Stefan Baral, the MACC+ is funded by the NIH under the national EHE initiative. The Hub seeks to accelerate HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies by providing mentoring and technical support to ongoing and future implementation science (IS) projects and investigators. We also offer mentorship and development opportunities through didactic training, applied learning activities, and intensive IS coaching. By expanding collaboration across the CFAR network and strengthening partnerships with Health Departments and community stakeholders, the MACC+ Hub is developing a collaborative network aimed at supporting the EHE agenda and NIH HIV/AIDS research priorities.
What do we offer?
Selecting or better understanding a framework
Exploring ways to engage partners, including utilization of participatory methods, human-centered design and community-led monitoring
Identifying data sources
Defining your target, source, and study population
Framing implementation science research questions and/or refining your specific aims
Developing your logic model
Selecting study designs, including use of adaptive study design methods
Applying implementation outcomes
Use of technologies
And many more!
MACC+ Hub Website
UAB CFAR Implementation Science Hub
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
PI’s: Robin Lanzi, Michael Mugavero
The UAB CFAR Implementation Science Hub services are organized around a research team that consists of experts with training, and experience in three overarching domains: Implementation Science, HIV Content Expertise, and Community Engagement.
Areas of focus and methodology include those specific to the EHE Supplement Projects such as: qualitative and mixed methods, partnership formation and ongoing relationships with health departments ASO’s, CBO’s, government agencies as well as social media strategies and inter-CFAR networks and leadership, program evaluation and data management.
Aims:
Coaching: Centered on developing a project development plan with each supplement/project PI
Consultation: Guidance on application of the IS logic model and identification of appropriate outcome measures for each project
Dissemination: Guidance on scholarly products informed by the project development plan as well as consideration to subsequent grant applications
Collaboration: Achieved with ISCI and the other IS Hubs via the evaluation working group, training seminars, and workshops
Conducting: Cross-Hub multisite pilot implementation research project to inform the field of HIV IS regarding best practices towards achieving EHE targets
UAB CFAR IS Hub
Rapid, Rigorous, Relevant (3R) Implementation Science Hub
The University of California Los Angeles
PI: Alison Hamilton
The UCLA Rapid, Rigorous, Relevant (3R) Implementation Science Hub provides leadership and support for HIV-related implementation research emphasizing pragmatic study designs and methods that address health equity and produce sustainable solutions. The Hub is supported by an Ending the HIV Epidemic supplement award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The unique goal of the Hub is to provide leadership and support for rapid, rigorous, and relevant (3R) HIV-related implementation research emphasizing pragmatic study designs and methods that address health equity and produce sustainable solutions.
Aims:
Provide consultation, coaching, and technical assistance to Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) grantees, with a focus on cutting-edge 3R content, methods, strategies, models, theories, and frameworks
Accelerate HIV research impacts by a) collaborating with ISCI, the other Implementation Hubs, and IS consortia and centers and b) identifying resources and opportunities for advancing evidence-based interventions through the implementation pipeline
Provide and promote a platform for multidisciplinary collaborations in support of developing HIV- related implementation research and supporting the next generation of diverse IS investigators
Conduct a cross-Hub multisite pilot implementation research project.
EHE awardees assigned to the UCLA 3R Hub will have access to individualized consultation, coaching, and technical assistance sessions; timely roundtable feedback; IS methods workshops; expert discussion sessions; and access to lectures and resources that will advance the application of IS concepts, theories, frameworks, and methods.
3R IS Hub YouTube Channel
UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC)
The University of California San Diego
PI’s: Borsika Rabin, Nicole Stadnick
Dissemination and implementation research 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. (NIH PAR-19-274). Recognizing the need for increased capacity in D&I research, training and leadership, we established the UC San Diego DISC in 2020 as a center focusing on dissemination and implementation science across UC San Diego Health Sciences. Key activities provided by the UC San Diego ACTRI DISC include training, consultation, technical assistance, and mentoring to advance D&I science with a local, national, and global impact..
Mission:
Establish UC San Diego as a nationally and internationally recognized flagship for dissemination and implementation (D&I) science through training, technical assistance, community engagement, and research advancement.
Vision:
Advance UC San Diego’s public health impact locally and globally through D&I science.
DISC Hub Website
Tennessee CFAR Implementation Science Hub
Vanderbilt University
PI’s: April Pettit, Carolyn Audet
We have a strong team of clinicians and researchers who are very excited to work with the EHE Supplement Projects on developing and testing new strategies to improve the HIV care cascade in the United States. Our expertise include: Health equity/health disparities, community engagement, adaptation of EBI’s, quality improvement, learning health systems, clinical provision of HIV prevention and treatment services, and collaboration with public health.
Core Activities:
Leveraging Vanderbilt Clinical Quality and Implementation Research (CCQIR) activities (Webinars, manuscript presentations)
Studio model borrowed from Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) grant reviews
Dissemination of EHE study results
TN CFAR IS Hub
Research Alliance in Implementation Science to End HIV/AIDS
The University of Washington
PI: Kenneth Sherr
RAISE builds on the expertise of UW/Fred Hutch CFAR’s Implementation Science Core, and its faculty Kenneth Sherr, Matthew Golden, Christine Khosropour, Arianna Means as well as other affiliated members. RAISE is one of nine Implementation Science Consultative Hubs across the country that provide implementation science consultation to NIH-funded EHE research projects designed to improve the uptake and effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions and bend the curve on the HIV epidemic in the US. RAISE also works in partnership with the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) to provide technical assistance in implementation research to health departments in EHE jurisdictions.
Objectives:
Provide implementation science consultation services to a subset of NIH-supported EHE research projects.
Develop and support generalizable knowledge through cross-hub implementation science research.
Working in collaboration with NASTAD, provide implementation science education and consultation to EHE health departments and develop a platform that links health departments with implementation researchers to promote new research collaborations that are responsive to health department needs, enhance the impact EHE activities, and build long-term collaborative infrastructure to end the HIV epidemic.
RAISE Hub Website
Emory CFAR Implementation Science Hub
Emory University
PI: Jessica Sales
Our central purpose is to advance research and interventions designed to prevent new infections and improve health equity in populations living with and at risk for HIV. We accomplish this by supporting the implementation of evidence-based biomedical, behavioral, and social prevention intervention and research methods for studies of pre-exposure prophylaxis, treatment as prevention, technology-supported prevention, and geospatial analyses.
What we offer:
Design and programming of web-based behavioral surveys
Molecular Laboratory and university partnership best practices
Integration of STI biomarkers in behavioral research
Data collection methods, analysis, and integration
Research participant management and retention
Project management for HIV research studies
Intervention design and adaptation
Mobile app development
Geospatial data analysis
Implementation study designs
Implemenations frameworks, measures, and outcome
Emory CFAR IS Hub Website
Texas Implementation Science Hub to End HIV
Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and Texas Biomedical Research Intitute
PI: Chris Markham
The Texas IS Hub is a component of the Texas D-CFAR. The Texas D-CFAR focuses its research on the theme “Ending HIV and optimizing HIV health in Texas.” The Texas IS Hub is now one of nine national Implementation Science Consultation Hubs working with the HIV Implementation Science Coordination Initiative supporting NIH-funded Ending HIV Epidemic supplement projects across the country.
Over the next year, the Texas IS Hub will provide consultation to 8-10 HIV/AIDS research teams. The Hub will also provide local trainings, The Hub will also provide local and national trainings, curated access to implementation science theories, frameworks, and capacity building activities like workshops and grant advisement.
Texas IS Hub Website
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