Implementation Science in Global Health 2025

Description

It takes more than a decade to implement evidence-based interventions in real life setting (know-do gap) due to a myriad of impediments, especially in low-resourced settings. The goal of implementation science is to close this know-do gap by balancing theory and practical applications to examine and address gaps between the development of evidence-based health innovations and their delivery in routine practice. 

In this summer course we will provide lectures, best-practice case examples and interactive sessions.

Lecturers

To be confirmed:

Dr. Martin Heine (University Medical Centre Utrecht, Netherlands)

Dr. Lisa Pfadenhauer (Ludwig Maximillian University, Germany)

Prof. Vilma Irazola (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Prof. Elvin Geng (University of Washington, USA)

Target audience

This course is open to all with an interest in implementations science within the context of (global) health:

• PhD / Post-doc / Early Career researchers; from any discipline, but with affinity with global health
• Professionals facing implementation challenges (e.g., quality improvement)

Aim of the course

We aim to address the following learning objectives:

• To outline the theory, key concepts, and principles of implementation science;
• To discuss various methodologies to obtain empirical evidence in implementation research
• To articulate implementation determinants and value the importance of context in global health research;
• To get insight in implementation strategies, adaptations, and mechanisms of change;
• To describe implementation outcomes and how they differ from health outcomes;
• To learn from best-practice case examples from different contexts;
• To apply frameworks commonly used in implementation science (e.g., CFIR, EPIC and RE-AIM).

Study load

Fulltime, five days, in Utrecht (Netherlands)