title: Enhancing Dissemination, Implementation, and Improvement Science in CTSAs through Regional Partnerships.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Challenges in healthcare policy and practice have stimulated interest in dissemination and implementation science. The Institute of Medicine Committee on the Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) program recommended expanding the CTSA program's investment and activity in this domain. Guidance is needed to facilitate successful growth of DII science infrastructure, activity and impacts.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Several CTSAs in Southern California collaborated to identify and respond to local challenges and opportunities to expand dissemination, implementation and improvement research by strengthening capacity and relationships between DII researchers and community, health system, and population health partners.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Planning and outreach by the Southern California CTSAs increased awareness and interest in DII research and generated recommendations for growth. Recommendations include: increasing strong partnerships with healthcare and population health systems to guide policy research agendas and collaborative DII science; promoting multi-sector partnerships that involve researchers and delivery systems throughout DII processes; bringing together multiple disciplines; and addressing national and international barriers as well as opportunities in DII science.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CTSAs through regional collaboration can increase their contributions to improved community health via skill-building, partnership development and enhanced outreach to local healthcare and public health agencies and delivery systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health at University of California Los Angeles, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Moira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inkelas
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Arleen F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Stefanie D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Vassar
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Ibrahima C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Sankaré
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Arturo B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.affiliation: Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute at University of Southern California and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Katrina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kubicek
authors.affiliation: Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA.|Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA.|Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.affiliation: System Planning, Improvement, & Data Analytics, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Anish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, California, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, California, USA.|VA Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support (CIPRS), VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Brian S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Mittman
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002140:California; D057191:Capacity Building; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006291:Health Policy; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States
keywords: dissemination; implementation; improvement science; institutional collaboration; translational research