Bryan J. Weiner, PhD
Director, Implementation Science Program
Professor, Global Health & Health Systems and Population Health
Core Faculty
About Me
An organizational psychologist by training, my research focuses on the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of innovations and evidence-based practices in health care organizations. Throughout my career, I have examined a wide range of innovations including quality improvement practices, care management practices, patient safety practices, clinical information systems, and as well evidence-based clinical practices in cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. I also collaborate in a wide range of research efforts to implement and scale-up evidence-based interventions in low-resourced settings, including maternal and child health, mental health, hypertension, traumatic brain injury, and HIV interventions.
I serve as Principal Investigator (MPI) of the NCI-funded P50 OPTICC Center, and of the NIMH-funded P30 IMPACT Center, both focused on developing, testing, and refining rigorous yet pragmatic methods for optimizing the implementation of evidence-based clinical and behavioral interventions in routine care settings. This includes methods for identifying and prioritizing implementation barriers, matching implementations strategies to prioritized barriers, and designing implementation strategies based on optimization criteria. Toolkits developed from this work can be found at ImpSciMethods.org.
I also serve as Principal Investigator of an NCI-funded R01 focused on identifying plausible mechanisms of 30 commonly used implementation strategies (necessary for matching strategies to barriers) and developing and testing reliable, valid, pragmatic measures of plausible mechanisms for six commonly used strategies (necessary for assessing mechanism activation). Recently, I served as PI of a NIMH-funded R01 in which we developed and tested new measures of acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility. Published in 2017, as of 2024 the measures have been translated into 22 languages, employed by more than 220 researchers from 40 countries, have been cited more than 800 times, and viewed more than 100,000 times.