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NIH’s Role in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
NIH is well positioned to fund the best science in pursuit of improving the length and the quality of the lives of our citizens, while at the same time stimulating the economy.


March 06, 2009
OBSSR Hosts Conference on Dissemination, Implementation

As a way to improve public health in a battered world, understanding poverty counts as much as knowing how proteins fold.


March 06, 2009
Research Funders Collaborate To Reduce Childhood Obesity

A new National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) was launched Feb. 19 to accelerate progress on reversing the epidemic of overweight and obesity among U.S. youth.


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Calendar

May 26, 2009, ­ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Building a Bridge: Transitional Programs from the Criminal Justice to the Community Setting for HIV+ Drug Users


May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health


May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA


July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions


August 2-7, 2009
2009 NIH Summer Institute on Community-Based Participatory Research Targeting the Medically Underserved

Application Deadline: May 15, 2009


August 9, 2009
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): When Academic/Research Institutions Meet the Real World

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Dissemination and Implementation

Health scientists have successfully developed and tested a plethora of clinical and community interventions demonstrated to treat and prevent medical and behavioral illnesses. However, as leaders in research and clinical practice have noted, there is still an enormous gap between what we know can maximize the quality of health care and what is currently being delivered in practice and community settings. More present than ever within the research community is the belief that to optimize public health we must not only understand how to create the best interventions, but how to best ensure that they are effectively delivered within clinical and community practice. This is the focus of dissemination and implementation research, and building this knowledge base is imperative to get the best return on decades of investment in biomedical and behavioral research.

OBBSR Funding Opportunities for Dissemination and Implementation Research


Past Conferences

2nd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building Research Capacity to Bridge the Gap from Science to Service, January 28-29, 2009


The goal of this conference was for the research community to exchange ideas, explore contemporary topics and identify concepts, methods and strategies to build research and organizational capacity for dissemination and implementation science.

For more information about the conference, agenda, and session slides please click here. Videocasts of the plenary sessions are available here.



The goal of this conference was to increase our understanding of factors that promote or impede the adoption, adaptation, implementation and maintenance of evidence-based practices by health providers, insurers, policy makers and the public. The conference builds on the momentum of existing trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcements which aim to support dissemination and implementation research.