The Great Plains IDEA-CTR Network, CENTRIC, and the UNMC College of Public Health Department of Health Promotions are sponsoring the 2019 Dissemination & Implementation Science Workshop: A Focus on Implementation Strategies, to be held Aug. 15-16 at the Maurer Center for Public Health, Room 3013, on the UNMC Omaha campus.
Registration for the event is $150 and is open until Aug. 8.
The workshop will feature presentations on:
- Characterizing and operationalizing implementation strategies;
- Specifying implementation strategies to enhance reviewer comprehension of your work;
- What are current sticking points for D&I study sections;
- Assessing the cost effectiveness of implementation strategies;
- Behavioral economics as an implementation strategy to improve reach;
- Engaging communities across a variety of implementation strategies to address rural childhood obesity treatment; and
- Matching implementation strategies to D&I outcomes.
Speakers and workshop facilitators include:
- Byron Powell, Ph.D., assistant professor, public health-social work, Brown School at Washington University, St. Louis;
- Samantha Harden, Ph.D., assistant professor, graduate program faculty, Virginia Tech Institute, Blacksburg, Va.;
- Wen You, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech Institute, Blacksburg, Va.;
- Jennie Hill, Ph.D., associate professor, UNMC Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health; and
- Paul Estabrooks, Ph.D., professor, UNMC Department of Health Promotions, College of Public Health.