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The Active Implementation Frameworks: A roadmap for advancing implementation of Comprehensive Medication Management in Primary care

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• 1 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Beard Hall, Campus Box 7574, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
• 2 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Beard Hall, Campus Box 7574, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
• 3 National Implementation Research Network - UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
• 4 University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Minneapolis, MN, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
• 5 University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, Minneapolis, MN, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
• 6 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Beard Hall, Campus Box 7574, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].
• PMID: 28549800
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2017.05.006

Implementation of evidence-based health services interventions is complex and often limited in scope. The Active Implementation Frameworks (AIFs) are an evidence-based set of frameworks to use when attempting to put into practice any innovation of known dimensions. This article describes the novel application of the AIFs to facilitate the implementation and improvement of Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) in primary care practices to optimize medication use and improve care for patients.

Keywords: Active Implementation Frameworks (AIF); Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM); Implementation science; Medication management; Pharmacy; Primary care.

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Implementation brief: The potential of co-creation in implementation science (2015): https://nirn.fpg.unc.edu/sites/nirn.fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/NIRN-Metz-ImplementationBreif-CoCreation.pdf

An implementation science and service provider-informed blueprint for integration of evidence-based / evidence-informed practices into New Jersey’s Child Welfare System: https://nirn.fpg.unc.edu/sites/nirn.fpg.unc.edu/files/resources/Blueprint_Sept2017.pdf

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Implementation Practice

Active implementation frameworks.

In 2005, the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) released a monograph synthesizing implementation research findings across a range of fields. The NIRN also conducted a series of meetings with experts to focus on implementation best practices. Based on these findings and subsequent research and field learning, NIRN developed five overarching frameworks referred to as the Active Implementation Frameworks.

Before beginning your journey, read the Active Implementation Overview .

You can also begin your Active Implementation Formula by exploring our learner pathways to guide your exploration of the AI Hub.

The components of the Active Implementation Formula are defined by the five (5) Active Implementation Frameworks (AIF). The AIFs are the key ingredients necessary to achieve socially significant student outcomes.

Select links below to explore the Active Implementation Frameworks.

Effective Practice

Usable Innovations

Effective Implementation

Enabling Context

Improvement Cycles

Socially Significant Outcomes

Are you looking for the AI Hub Modules? We have turned them into PDFs! Check out the complete list here. You can also find all of the interactive lessons for the frameworks in one place!

The resources and tools provided to support your practice of implementation science are organized by the Active Implementation Formula. Research across multiple fields has identified three components that when put in place lead to the effective and sustained use of innovations, resulting in improved outcomes for students. Notice that the formula is multiplicative, meaning that all 3 components need to be present to reach socially significant outcomes.

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Hexagon Tool

The Hexagon Tool can be used by communities and organizations to better understand how a new or existing program or practice fits into an implementing site’s existing work and context.

Training Template

The Training Plan Template is designed to help guide your team’s planning process in developing a training program. This tool can be used to guide discussions around rationale, core components, knowledge, skills, outcomes, and assessment.

Stages Tool

The Implementation Stages Planning tool supports the identification of the current stage of implementation, as well as supports planning and improvement.

Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles are used for rapid cycle problem solving in active implementation. Use of this PDSA Planning Template will help ensure there is clear communication, the plan is enacted, you begin to collect data to study, and you act on what was learned.

NIHR issues final update on implementation of the Restart Framework

• 28 January 2021

The NIHR published a Restart Framework on 21 May 2020 - when the NHS started to restore routine clinical services - to support the restarting of research paused due to COVID-19. Developed in partnership with multiple stakeholders and the devolved nations, the Framework provides a flexible structure for local decision-making.

We’ve seen steady progress since that time with 69 percent of studies that were paused now restarted and 60 percent of these recruiting participants. However, given the huge surge in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of variants, we know that this performance will be difficult to maintain where routine care on which research relies is delayed, or capacity to support non-COVID studies is limited. Rather than recommending a national ‘pause’ of new studies as we did in Spring 2020, we are advising that such research is supported as possible in line with the Restart Framework.

Dr William van't Hoff, CEO of the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) and Senior Responsible Officer for the Restart Programme, said: “Given the pressure the NHS is under, our focus right now has to be on urgent public health research into COVID-19, including delivery of prioritised vaccine studies and platform therapeutics trials. However, we are actively collaborating with research system partners to ensure that non-COVID research can quickly regain momentum as and when things ease up in the Spring.”

The latest CRN data

As of 20 January 2021, our data indicate that since the Restart Framework was published:

• 69 percent of both commercial and non-commercial studies that were paused have restarted
• 60 percent of previously paused studies have recruited participants
• 1,103 new studies have been added to the NIHR CRN Portfolio
• 268 of these new studies have opened to recruitment and 174 have recruited participants
• Of the 2,310 studies that were never paused, 1,750 are open to recruitment and 120,934 participants have been recruited

Looking to the future

Going forward, NIHR is playing its part as one of a group of key partners working to take coordinated action to recover non-COVID research and to build a better and more resilient clinical research delivery system for the future. Our partners include DHSC, the devolved nations, the Office for Life Sciences, NHS England and NHS Improvement, NHS Digital, NHSX, the regulatory authorities (HRA and MHRA), industry and medical research charities.

Future updates will focus on this sector-wide programme of work.

Restarting NIHR programme studies

During this difficult period of time, we have maintained contact with leaders of non-COVID studies, trials and projects funded through NIHR’s research programmes and learned how they have adapted in order to continue. We found examples of those already planning online trials being able to resume relatively quickly. For others, where possible, protocols had been updated and received approval to continue through lockdowns, in some instances converting to online or remote formats in place of in person. Lack of access to labs has, however, caused some delays, such as when externally procured components incurred longer lead times.

Useful resources

Organisations across the research infrastructure have shared guidance to aid research delivery in the context of the pandemic. Below is a list of examples:

• FPM Clinical Trials Resilience Survey – Report Published The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine Survey was implemented between October and November 2020. It sought to understand the pressures and adaptations that its members have experienced, and to learn whether the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about permanent changes to pharmaceutical medicine and drug development and regulations that could or should now become integrated into ‘normal’ practice.
• Guidance for Clinical Trial Units Guidance for CTUs from the UKCRC Registered Clinical Trials Units Network.
• NHS R&D Forum Resource Exchange The Exchange aims to share practice and provide support in all the essentials of running health and care R&D Departments across the UK.
• MHRA Blog : Building resilience into clinical trial design and conduct during the pandemic Updated guidance on minimising disruptions to the conduct and integrity of clinical trials of medicines during COVID-19.
• NHS England and Improvement Blog : Supporting nursing research and evidence to underpin policy dialogue and system transformation.

Guidance from the Health Research Authority:

• Implementing a temporary halt to all or some of the study
• Re-opening studies or sites that have been paused

Latest stories from the Local Clinical Research Networks, highlighting where progress is being made, key learnings and best practice:

• Southampton develop innovative solution for remote monitoring during coronavirus
• Researchers praised for their efforts in restarting research in south London
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Call for applications: NIH/PEPFAR Local Implementation Science Network

The Fogarty International Center and the Office of AIDS Research of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with PEPFAR and the Bureau of Global Health Security and Development are launching the NIH/PEPFAR Local Implementation Science Network (LISN) .

All interested applicants should review the information below and submit an application on the application website no later than November 4, 2024.

Goals and Objectives

Network activities, eligibility requirements, alliance membership terms and support, required application materials, application submission, application review process.

In collaboration with PEPFAR, the Bureau of Global Health Security and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of AIDS Research, the Center for Global Health Studies at the NIH Fogarty International Center is launching an initiative to support the NIH/PEPFAR Local Implementation Science Network (LISN) in sub-Saharan African countries with PEPFAR Country Operational Plans (COP) as of 2024. The goal of this initiative is to build and strengthen local implementation science (IS) alliances that will utilize IS to address emergent and pressing priorities related to HIV, and in so doing develop a base of in-country IS capacity and experience.

Robust, effective local IS alliances will provide dynamic learning platforms through strong multi-sector collaborations that engage researchers (both local and global), in-country PEPFAR implementing partners and agency staff, community members, and local policymakers to address locally relevant implementation challenges related to HIV and help frame country-anchored IS research agendas that are driven by programmatic needs. Specifically, local alliance activities will address four important areas:

• IS capacity building
• Priority setting including development of IS research agendas
• Knowledge sharing and dissemination
• Engagement practices that strengthen links between research, program, and policy

The local IS alliance model epitomizes a collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystem poised to offer invaluable insights to inform national IS research-to-action endeavors. These alliances will provide the scaffolding for sustaining IS activities in high-burden HIV countries through robust engagement and collaboration between researchers, national policymakers, and PEPFAR staff, by building capacity in IS for these diverse parties, and ultimately anchoring IS work in locally identified challenges. This approach will ensure that the research priorities and solutions are responsive to local needs. Moreover, the work of the alliances will help ensure that relevant research findings are put into practice and inform how PEPFAR country programs prioritize and utilize implementation science resources in COP25 or through future NIH funding mechanisms.

LISN consists of two parts:

• Development of a local alliance that responds to the local priorities and contexts
• Engagement with the larger cross-alliance network comprised of members of all the local alliances

This design is intended to allow the local alliances to tailor efforts and activities to their unique needs while also creating a broader learning environment that enables sharing of knowledge, challenges, and learning among the local alliances.

Each alliance will convene partners to develop activities related to implementation challenges in the context of HIV and an overall agenda that addresses consensus-driven implementation science priorities. Alliance activities should be driven by collective identification of key challenges in program implementation and should include development of a locally relevant implementation research agenda, IS capacity building activities, and disseminating and sharing of research results. The local alliances should focus on a local priority area that could include but are not limited to those identified below that align with PEPFAR and NIH priorities:

• Developing Local Implementation Science Agenda for integrated HIV and NCD care : Local IS alliances will work closely with PEPFAR teams in selected countries to draft a tailored implementation science agenda. This agenda will focus on evaluating innovative service delivery models that effectively integrate HIV care with broader primary healthcare services, including non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, and mental health. The aim is to strengthen linkages between HIV services and comprehensive primary care to improve patient outcomes, reduce service fragmentation, and enhance the sustainability of health systems.
• Developing Local Implementation Science Agenda for Youth Interventions : Local IS alliances will work closely with PEPFAR teams in priority, focus countries to draft a tailored IS agenda aimed at evaluating the new PEPFAR youth-focused HIV interventions planned for FY2024. This initiative will include engaging youth in the design and execution of HIV outreach programs (and so devising a research agenda, would include working to evaluate youth engagement in program design, etc.).
• Formative Planning for Scaling Long-Acting Prevention Modalities for Priority Populations (AGYW, MSM, PWID, sex workers) : Local IS alliances will undertake planning for formative research to explore the feasibility and optimal strategies for scaling long-acting prevention modalities (such as long-acting injectable PrEP) among priority populations in high-burden settings where PEPFAR operates.
• Developing Local Implementation Science Agenda to address Retention in Care : Local IS alliances will work closely with PEPFAR teams in selected countries to draft a tailored implementation science agenda aimed at evaluating innovative solutions, including behavioral and/or structural interventions, to address retention in care.

In relation to the identified priority area, successful applications will describe how they will conduct the following activities:

• Partner Engagement : Provide a description of how the alliance will identify and collaborate with local parties impacted by the research to ensure the activities and research agenda is relevant and impactful. Describe intended mechanisms for engagement of all relevant potential collaborators including program implementers, policymakers and the community in the research process from planning to execution and analysis.
• Agenda Development : Describe plans for development of an implementation science agenda that includes objectives, methodologies, and evaluation metrics that address the unique aspects of the interventions in the local contexts.
• Protocol Development : Describe plans for the codevelopment of detailed research protocols ensuring they are adaptable to local contexts and scalable contingent on additional funding. Protocols generated by the local IS alliances may be considered for funding through country specific COP funding mechanisms (in COP 25) and/or future NIH funding announcements.
• Capacity Building : Describe plans to organize capacity building activities including workshops and training sessions to enhance local researcher and program capacity in IS, fostering sustainable research practices.
• Scaling Strategy: Describe plans for the development of evidence-based recommendations for scaling up these modalities tailored to the specific needs and contexts of the target populations.
• Alliance Sustainability Plan : Describe a plan for how the alliance will sustain itself to ensures ongoing activities and collaborations.

Potential deliverables could include prioritized research agenda, research/program landscape, training curriculum, a dissemination plan, and a plan for sustaining the alliance.

Members of the local alliances will also be part of the larger, cross-alliance network that will convene members to facilitate knowledge sharing, promote cross-alliance activities, and identify common challenges, successes and potential synergies. The cross-alliance network activities may include IS training geared towards researchers, policymakers, and program implementers. The cross-alliance network will be organized and led by NIH/FIC in collaboration with PEPFAR with guidance from an inter-agency steering committee. Successful applicants should plan to attend the LISN launch meeting at the end of January 2025.

Successful applications will propose local alliance leadership teams that include one researcher with demonstrated experience and expertise in IS, at least one member from the country’s ministry of health, the national government body primarily responsible for health and health care delivery, and at least one in-country PEPFAR implementing agency member with an option to have up to five members total. Applicants should identify a single or multiple priority areas, propose the scope, structure, and specific activities for the alliance outlining goals that could be achieved over the course of one year. All applications should address the activities above, including plans for IS capacity-building activities, sustainability, and dissemination. Applications must also indicate specific deliverables and intended impacts.

Applications must be led by a principal investigator with a relevant NIH-supported research project that is or was active in the last five years (note, co-PIs and other leadership roles on the grant are eligible to apply) and demonstrate expertise within their research team related to HIV and IS. Applicants can be of any nationality or residency, though their research must be conducted in sub-Saharan African countries with PEPFAR Country Operational Plans as of 2024.

This list limited to : Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Applications led by someone from the focus country or with teams made up completely of individuals from the proposed focus country will be prioritized. In addition, applicants must designate at least two but no more than five in-country partners to be part of their alliance team. These partners must be primarily located in the PEPFAR country and can be from any PEPFAR agency, and can also include key in-country government representatives, and/or in-country research collaborators. Applicants and their designated partners are expected to be actively engaged in the local alliance and attend all cross-alliance network meetings.

The ideal applicant will have strong interest in and work related to IS as it applies to HIV, strong collaborations with in-country research and non-research partners, and plans to use the interactions supported by the Alliance to inform and enhance the impact of their research.

Alliance teams will receive up to $40,000 inclusive of indirect costs to develop their alliances and support their proposed activities. Teams will also receive travel support (airfare, accommodation, and per diem only) up to $10,000 inclusive of indirect costs to support their attendance at the LISN launch meeting at the end of January 2025.

Please note all materials must be submitted as Microsoft Word or PDF documents and should be prepared in advance of starting the application. You will be unable to save an application once it is started, and you may not make any changes once you submit.  

• Personal Information . Include a reference number to current NIH grant(s) or NIH-supported research.
• Partner Information . Include information for at least two and up to five in-country partners.
• Research Background . Provide a brief summary of your research as it relates HIV and IS. Describe how your research project(s) currently includes or is related to elements of IS. (No more than one page)
• Applicant and Partner Interest . Explain what you hope to gain by developing a local alliance and why participation in the crosse-alliance network will strengthen uptake of evidence into program and policy as it relates to HIV. Each partner must describe the role they will play and what they hope to gain by participating in the Alliance. Be sure to include partners' expertise as it relates to IS and HIV. (no more than one page)
• Local Alliance Priority. Explain the HIV priority areas the local alliance will address and why/how this was chosen. Please provide context specific to the country or local area you are applying from. (no more than half a page)
• Local Alliance Activities . Outline what your team will do over the course of one year to build your alliance, include in this section how the alliance will address the selected priority area, who you plan to engage, and your aims and intended outcomes. (no more than one page)
• Expected Deliverables . Include a list of anticipated deliverables and outcomes the alliance expects to achieve as a result of the work listed above. (no more than half a page)
• Applicant and Partner Biosketch or Curriculum Vitae : One (1) single electronic file containing the applicants' and partners' NIH-style biosketch or CVs. (No more than five pages for each biosketch or CV.)
• Timeline and Budget : Provide details on the planned timeline, which is limited to one year from the start of the contract, and proposed budget for alliance activities. (Limited to $40,000 for alliance activities and $10,000 for travel, inclusive of indirect costs. Funds cannot be used for salary support.).

All applications must be submitted electronically through CRDF Global's Electronic Proposal Submission (EPS) site no later than 23:59 U.S. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on November 4, 2024. 

The EPS website will be available upon request. Please submit your request for log-in information to Annie King at  [email protected] . Submission through this website does not require previous registration.

Applications should be submitted only one time. No modifications are permitted once submitted.

Register for application information webinar . Takes place October 15, 2024.

Applications will be reviewed by the NIH/PEPFAR Steering Committee and select experts based on the quality of applicants' scholarship and research, the extent of applicants' commitment to future HIV and implementation research, and the applicants' partner support.

How awards are funded : CRDF Global on behalf of Fogarty is soliciting proposals for awards related to LISN.

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Important information about NSF’s implementation of the revised 2 CFR

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Research Coordination Network for the National Discovery Cloud for Climate (RCN-NDCC)

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Overview: National Discovery Cloud for Climate

The National Discovery Cloud for Climate (NDC-C) is an NSF initiative that will cooperatively advance cyberinfrastructure and climate research through awards that support collaborations between computer scientists, cyberinfrastructure developers and operators, and climate researchers from the geosciences, biosciences, engineering, and other disciplines. NDC-C promotes these collaborations through co-funding of proposals submitted to existing programs and solicitations from the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) in the CISE Directorate and the Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies, and Education (RISE) in the Geosciences directorate. Existing solicitations and programs, such as the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) and Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) programs provide significant opportunities for interdisciplinary proposals that span multiple NSF directorates. NDC-C awards cover the full climate cyberinfrastructure spectrum, including general purpose data management, cataloging, discovery, and transport infrastructure; extensible platforms that provide end-user environments that integrate computing, data, and user interfaces for climate scientists and students; and cyberinfrastructure-enabled climate research that builds on these and other systems. A list of current NDC-C award recipients is available from the NSF NDC-C website .

A well-managed RCN can enable these individual awards to achieve a collective impact that is greater than what they will be able to achieve independently. RCNs are intended to promote inter-disciplinary research, foster new collaborations, coordinate overlapping efforts for broader impact such as student outreach and broadening participation in computing, and identify new opportunities for research and the translation of research to practice. The March 2024 NDC-C workshop report provides an overview and initial identification of opportunities for project-to-project collaborations and the potential for collective impact among the awardees through the creation of a backbone organization.

Proposal Guidance and Submission Instructions

Proposals should be prepared in accordance with the guidance contained in the Research Coordination Networks (RCN) program solicitation . As per the solicitation, prospective proposers must consult first with the cognizant program officer prior to submission and must include an email in the proposal’s Other Supplementary Documents section indicating the cognizant program officer’s approval to submit the RCN proposal. Proposals without approval from the cognizant program officer will be returned without review.

When submitting the proposal in research.gov, select the RCN solicitation and then select the CISE Directorate’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC); choose the “CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE” program. Proposal titles should begin with “RCN-NDCC:” followed by a substantive title. RCN-NDCC proposals must be received by December 18, 2024 (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization’s time) for consideration .

Submissions must comply with the instructions contained in the RCN program solicitation, including the seven guidance items outlined in Section II, Program Description. Within the context of the general guidelines provided by the solicitation, RCNs relevant to the NDC-C initiative should address issues such as the following that will help NDC-C awardees achieve collective impact:

• Establish and operate communication channels among NDC-C awarded projects and with the broader climate research community.
• Organize and promote student and researcher exchange programs between NDC-C funded projects.
• Conduct regular online and in-person award recipient meetings, including annual all-hands meetings for NDC-C funded projects, with clear agendas for identifying recipient research collaborations and other concrete outcomes.
• Coordinate undergraduate student education programs among NDC-C funded recipients. This may, for example, define multi-year undergraduate student opportunities that allow students to move through various outreach programs and internship opportunities conducted by award recipients.
• Connect NDC-C recipients with other significant, related investments in cyberinfrastructure, climate research, and climate education by the NSF and other federal agencies.
• Guide NDC-C award recipients on translation of research to practice through public and private sector participation.
• Establish a Web presence for the NDC-C RCN.

Review and Award Information

Proposals should be prepared and submitted to NSF as described above. NSF will manage and conduct the review process of proposals in accordance with standard NSF policies and procedures. NSF anticipates issuing one award for up to five years for up to $500,000/year, subject to the quality of proposals and availability of funds. Proposal budgets are expected to have significant funds set aside to cover participant costs, travel funds, and other activities associated with a research coordination network.

For questions about this DCL, please contact the cognizant program officers at [email protected] .

Gregory Hager Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

Organization(s)

• Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CISE/OAC)
• Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)