Chair: Implementation Science Chairs in HDCYH

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Build capacity in the current and next generation of Implementation Science researchers in human development, child, and youth health to facilitate the integration of evidence into health-related practice and policy.
• Advance the field of Implementation Science in human development, child and youth health through building the evidence base of what works best, for who, where, and with what impact in implementation efforts.
• Strengthen research excellence and ensure maximum research impact through:
  • Co-production of research with knowledge users to ensure that evidence-based practices and/or policies and implementation strategies address barriers and facilitators (e.g., societal, structural) to implementation, respond to needs, and promote health equity.
  • Consideration of diverse biological and/or socio-cultural identity factors in research design, including diverse research methods such as those based in Indigenous ways of knowing.