Anna G Hoover PhD

The Public Health PBRN National Coordinating Center is pleased to announce the launch of a funding opportunity for Dissemination and Implementation Research Studies through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. These awards will support selected PBRNs in conducting comparative studies designed to identify public health system characteristics and strategies that facilitate the effective and efficient implementation of evidence-based programs and services for health protection, promotion and disease prevention.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Research on how best to deliver efficacious public health strategies in heterogeneous community and organizational contexts remains limited. Such studies require the active engagement of public health practice settings in the design, implementation, and translation of research. Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) provide mechanisms for research engagement, but until now they have not been tested in public health settings.

The National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR) and the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRN) National Coordinating Center are pleased to announce the joining of these two entities with the September 1^st launch of the new National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research and Practice-Based Research Networks.