Capacity Strengthening
ASIS develops and supports educational opportunities for individuals and institutions at different levels of experience.
Activities may include:
- Introductory and advanced implementation science courses
- Short courses and intensive institutes
- Webinars and masterclasses
- Training in implementation research methods
- Training in implementation practice
- Framework and theory workshops
- Implementation strategy design
- Hybrid effectiveness–implementation research
- Implementation outcome measurement
- Qualitative and mixed-methods research
- Adaptation, scale-up, and sustainability
- Economic evaluation of implementation strategies
- Grant and scientific writing workshops
- Train-the-trainer programs
- Institutional capacity-strengthening partnerships
Mentorship and Leadership Development
ASIS supports students, early-career researchers, practitioners, and emerging leaders through:
- Individual and group mentorship
- Peer-mentoring networks
- Career-development sessions
- Leadership training
- Research collaboration opportunities
- Writing and publication groups
- Grant-development support
- Conference scholarships
- Student and early-career interest groups
- Opportunities to serve on ASIS committees and working groups
Knowledge Exchange
ASIS creates platforms for sharing implementation experiences, including both successes and challenges.
Knowledge-exchange activities may include:
- Regional conferences
- Country and subregional meetings
- Webinars and seminars
- Communities of practice
- Case-study discussions
- Implementation laboratories
- Policy dialogues
- Practitioner forums
- Methodological working groups
- Journal clubs
- Newsletters and evidence summaries
- Online resource repositories
Research and Methods
ASIS promotes rigorous and contextually relevant implementation research.
Priority areas include:
- Development and testing of implementation strategies
- Adaptation of frameworks and measures
- Hybrid effectiveness–implementation designs
- Pragmatic and cluster-randomized trials
- Natural experiments and quasi-experimental designs
- Participatory and community-engaged research
- Systems approaches to implementation
- Digital implementation science
- Implementation economics
- De-implementation
- Scale-up and sustainability
- Policy implementation
- Equity-focused implementation science
- Methods for low-resource and humanitarian settings
Policy and Practice Engagement
ASIS works to make implementation science useful and accessible to decision-makers and practitioners.
Activities may include:
- Policy dialogues
- Evidence-to-policy forums
- Technical assistance
- Implementation planning
- Scale-up readiness assessments
- Strategy selection and adaptation
- Monitoring, evaluation, and learning
- Development of practical tools and guidance
- Knowledge translation products
- Partnerships with ministries, municipalities, health systems, and civil society organizations
Advocacy
ASIS advocates for:
- Greater recognition of implementation science
- Increased investment in implementation research and practice
- Dedicated implementation science training programs
- Career pathways for implementation scientists
- Locally led and regionally relevant research
- Equitable international partnerships
- Meaningful community participation
- Inclusion of implementation outcomes in research and program evaluation
- Stronger links among research, policy, and practice