Researchers working in public health and medicine are charged with developing novel interventions for chronic disease prevention and treatment. Despite significant advancements in recent years, it still takes 17 years for just 14% of research evidence to be translated into real-world programming and achieve intended impact. Even when interventions are scaled and sustained, they are often adopted in high-resource settings and thus may worsen inequities in access to care by not prioritizing social determinants of health. Dissemination and implementation science places a much-needed emphasis on whether and how interventions are implemented in target settings to reduce the speed of research translation and enhance sustainability of evidence-based programs and policies.

This seminar will provide:

1. An overview of D&I science as a methodological field in public health
2. Applications to current projects that address nutrition insecurity and obesity
3. A proposed path forward for D&I at Temple University via a newly formed working group