A course on Implementation Science

Last date of registration	30th June, 2024
Master Class Date	Monday, 1st September 2024
Course duration	10:00 am to 1:30 p.m. IST

Launched by The George Institute in collaboration with the World Health Organization, aims to develop your skills, knowledge, and understanding in applying critical evidence and research in program and build practices for implementing informed changes within health.

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Implementation Science Masterclass Abstract Guidelines

Implementation research is highly practical and is best understood with some real-life case studies. In preparation for our upcoming masterclass, we would like you to provide a brief abstract (maximum 1 page) of an implementation project that you have been working on and/or that you would like to work on in the future.

We are interested in projects that are still at the planning stage through to completed projects. We are also keen to hear from everyone (from beginner to expert) so that we can use the masterclass to collectively build our knowledge on this topic.

Please use the following questions to develop your summary with just a few sentences for each answer.

1. What is the brief title of your project, your name, and your institution?
2. What is the implementation problem that your project is seeking to address? (e.g. limited use of guideline-recommended health care for a particular health condition; low use of programs to reduce risk factors for chronic disease; limited confidence by the community in the quality of health care services available)
3. How big is the problem? (based on literature or your past research)
4. Have you undertaken any kind of problem analysis to identify the barriers and enablers to overcoming the problem? If so, what were the major findings? (e.g. out-of-pocket costs for medicines are high or lifestyle programs to reduce the risk of hypertension are not available where the most affected people live)
5. Have you used any theories or frameworks in your approach to understanding the problem or in developing proposed solutions?
6. What implementation strategies are you considering/ have you used to overcome the problem? (e.g. pilot study of a low-cost combination pill or use of local peer support programs to help people to increase physical activity)
7. What research methods have you/ will you use to evaluate these strategies? (e.g. pilot RCT, formative qualitative study)

Depending on the stage of your project you may not have definite answers to all these questions and that is fine. So please just answer what is relevant to your circumstances and/or outline what is your current thinking.

Please send your abstract to abstractssafety2024@ia-meetings.com by 30th June, 2024.

We look forward to discussing your projects at the masterclass.