<p>Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 200C. Introduction to implementation science and use in promoting health equity. Examination of challenges of bridging research and practice by critically assessing structural and systemic inequity, and understanding of how implementation science can promote health equity in clinical and community-based settings. Enhancement of skills to apply implementation strategies that enhance the adoption, implementation, sustainment, and scale-up of effective interventions. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Community Health Sciences

Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health

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COM HLT 236 - Bridging Research and Practice in Public Health: Using Implementation Science to Achieve Health Equity 

Bridging Research and Practice in Public Health: Using Implementation Science to Achieve Health Equity 

Gain basic understanding of the theoretical frameworks, issues, and outcomes of implementation science. 

Assess how implementation science contributes to bridging research and practice and identify current gaps in knowledge and practice. 

Examine issues and contextual factors related to disseminating and implementation evidence-based interventions and identify methods to address challenges.

Critically evaluate implementation research by challenging current norms and status quo that maintain and perpetuate health inequity.

Develop an implementation plan, considering embedded structural inequities, that seeks to bridge research and practice.

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Bridging Research and Practice in Public Health: Using Implementation Science to Achieve Health Equity

COM HLT 236

4 units