Implementation Science Workshop

Implementation Science and Applications to HPV Research: A Primer

Person(s) and Institution(s) Responsible for Organizing Workshop:

Heather M. Brandt, PhD
Director, HPV Cancer Prevention Program, Co-Associate Director for Outreach
St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center

Maria E. Fernández, PhD
Vice President, Population Health and Implementation Science, Co-Director of the UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science, Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences,
School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Jessica Y. Islam, PhD
Assistant Member, Cancer Epidemiology Program, Center for Immunizations and Infections Research in Cancer
Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.

Lara S. Savas, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Michelle Silver, PhD, ScM
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences
Washing University at St. Louis

This workshop provides an introductory overview of Implementation Science (IS) with a specific focus on its applications in HPV prevention and control research. Implementation science offers a set of frameworks, models, and study designs that can help researchers and practitioners understand how evidence-based interventions are adopted, implemented, and sustained in real-world settings. For example, IS approaches can be used to:

1. Identify factors that influence the adoption and integration of evidence-based interventions.
2. Understand contextual determinants that shape implementation processes and outcomes.
3. Inform the development and evaluation of implementation strategies that support the delivery of public health interventions.

Given the ongoing need to translate effective HPV prevention, control, and treatment interventions into practice, implementation science provides useful conceptual and methodological tools for studying how interventions are implemented in healthcare and community settings.

Key objectives of the workshop include:

• Foundations of Implementation Science: An overview of the field’s core concepts and goals, including how implementation research differs from other types of public health and clinical research.
• Theories, Models, and Frameworks: An introduction to commonly used frameworks that help guide the study of implementation processes and outcomes.
• Identifying Barriers and Facilitators: Approaches used in implementation research to examine contextual factors that may influence the uptake and delivery of evidence-based interventions.
• Hybrid Effectiveness–Implementation Studies: A brief overview of study designs that examine both intervention effectiveness and implementation processes.
• Applications to HPV Research: Examples illustrating how implementation science approaches have been applied in HPV prevention, control, and treatment research.
• Resources for Further Learning: Introduction to selected tools, readings, and resources that can support continued learning about implementation science methods.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have a basic understanding of key implementation science concepts and approaches, as well as familiarity with examples of how these methods are being applied in HPV-related research.

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