UW Research Awards

Funded Research

From the classroom to the hospital and the community, UW researchers are using implementation science to improve the lives of people around the world.

When it comes to research funding, the University of Washington has consistently been in the top five public or private universities in the United States since 1969.

As implementation science grows as a discipline an increasing portion of research funding at UW includes or focuses on implementation science. Below, you will find a listing of implementation science funding awards received by principal investigators at the University of Washington, organized by year received.

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2024 Funding Awards

TB PrEP – Integrating HIV prevention with TB household contact evaluation

September 9, 2024

Jennifer Ross, MD, MPH

Examining the Implementation and Impact of School Resource Officer Policy Reform in the United States

April 16, 2024

Keith Hullenaar, PhD

Safety Planning and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Mozambique: A Hybrid Effectiveness/Implementation Cluster Randomized Trial

April 1, 2024

Bradley Wagenaar, PhD

Scaling up integrated PrEP delivery in Kenyan maternal and child health clinics for pregnant and postpartum women

January 1, 2024

Anjuli Wagner, PhD

2023 Funding Awards

Population strategies to reduce sodium intake and cardiovascular diseases in the United States: Applying RE-AIM to policy implementation

December 14, 2023

Yanfang Su, PhD

Learning and Living with Wildfire Smoke: Creating Clean Air Environments in Schools through Youth Participatory Action Research

April 21, 2023

Dr. Savannah D'Evelyn, PhD

Achieving HIV viral suppression in refugee settlements in Uganda with Head StART: a cluster randomized trial evaluating the effectiveness of community ART delivery for people newly diagnosed with HIV

April 1, 2023

Kelli N. O'Laughlin, MD

Optimizing Evidence-Based Practice Implementation for Clinical Impact: The IMPACT Center – Exploratory Project 3

February 1, 2023

Aaron Lyon, PhD

2022 Funding Awards

Accelerating Delivery of rheumatic heart disease preventive iNterventions in Uganda (ADUNU)

September 1, 2022

David Watkins, PhD

Addressing Clinician Bias to Improve Equitable Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice

September 1, 2022

Freda Liu, PhD & Aaron Lyon, PhD

2021 Funding Awards

Evaluating and optimizing a virtual care model for PrEP delivery

October 21, 2021

Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD

Modeling the public health impact of using HIV ST for PrEP initiation

October 12, 2021

Monisha Sharma, PhD

Optimizing Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Seeking Reproductive Health Care in Kenya

September 17, 2021

Yasaman Zia

MECHANISMS: The MECHANics of Implementation Strategies and MeasureS

September 17, 2021

Bryan J. Weiner, PhD & Cara C. Lewis, PhD

Addressing the Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Syndemic in Kampala, Uganda: Implementation Science for Intervention Optimization and Adaptation

September 16, 2021

Dorothy Thomas

Policy Framework To Operationalize The Use Of Huduma Namba For Health Sector Unique Patient Identification (UPI) In Kenya

September 9, 2021

Jeff Lane, JD, MPH

Optimizing Evidence-Based Practice Implementation for Clinical Impact: the IMPACT Center

September 1, 2021

Shannon Dorsey, PhD & Bryan Weiner, PhD

Implementation and Sustainment of Team-Based Practice Transformation to Improve Heart Failure Care and Outcomes

August 1, 2021

Erin Blakeney, PhD, RN

HQ Supported Development, Implementation, Use and Evaluation of Interoperable Health Information Systems to Achieve HIV/AIDS and TB Epidemic Control through Improved Health Informatics Policy, Governance, Workforce Capacity, and Systems under PEPFAR

January 19, 2021

Nancy Puttkammer, PhD

PARACAS: Program for Advanced Research Capacities for AIDS in Peru

January 12, 2021

Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH

A sequential, adaptive model of differentiated service delivery to reach persons living with HIV who are lost-to-followup or who have detectable viral load

January 6, 2021

Ruanne Barnabas, DPhil, MBChB

Mentoring and research to prepare oral PrEP delivery platforms for novel HIV prevention products

January 6, 2021

Renee Heffron, PhD

The design and evaluation of strategies to implement HIV prevention interventions for pregnant women in community pharmacy settings

January 1, 2021

Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD

2020 Funding Awards

Supporting the Provision of Quality Cervical Cancer Screening and Pre-Cancer Treatment Services for Women Living with HIV in Botswana under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

December 8, 2020

Leveraging implementation science to accelerate adoption of shorter-course radiation for breast and prostate cancer

December 1, 2020

Ejection Fraction as the Sixth Vital Sign for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: Improved triage through technologyenhanced point of care echocardiography

November 30, 2020

Utilizing Technology to Facilitate Active Case Detection and Decentralized Dynamic Registry to Improve the Uptake of Rheumatic Heart Disease Secondary Prevention (ADD-RHD)

October 20, 2020

Integrating expedited partner STI therapy during PrEP delivery for young women

September 24, 2020

mWACh-PrEP: A SMS-based Support Intervention to Enhance PrEP Adherence during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

September 23, 2020

Building Capacity to Address the Burden of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Diseases in LMICs

September 9, 2020

Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health in Kenya Department of Health and Human Services

September 1, 2020

Delivery of Integrated PrEP and ART for HIV prevention for couples in Kenya

August 21, 2020

Implementation science research on PrEP delivery and costing within MAT and NSP services for PWUD in Uganda

July 28, 2020

Expanding and Scaling Two-way Texting (2wT) to Reduce Unnecessary Follow-Up and Improve Adverse Event Identification Among Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Clients in the Republic of South Africa

June 16, 2020

Integrating PrEP delivery in family planning clinics in Kenya

May 6, 2020

Women and HIV: Translation of Research into Practice

April 24, 2020

Community participatory action research to increase MDA coverage in hard-to-reach urban populations

April 17, 2020

Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across The Nation

April 6, 2020

Global Protocol to Conduct Implementation Research on Self-Administered Subcutaneous Depo-Medroxyprogesterone acetate through Issuing of a Health System

April 2, 2020

Peer PrEP referral + HIV self-test for PrEP initiation among young Kenyan women

March 23, 2020

Evaluating the Scale-Up of HIV Partner Services in Mozambique

March 18, 2020

Field Studies on Feasibility of Elimination of Soil Transmitted Helminths

March 13, 2020

Evaluating Implementation Strategies to Scale-up Transdiagnostic Evidence-based Mental Health Care in Zambia

January 15, 2020

2019 Funding Awards

Digital treatments for opioids and other substance use disorders (DIGITS) in primary care: A hybrid type-III implementation trial

November 18, 2019

PrEP optimized for mothers (PrOM): Efficient PrEP integration in MCH clinics

October 2, 2019

The Optimizing Implementation in Cancer Control (OPTICC) Center

October 1, 2019

Pre-post study of an audit and feedback intervention to reduce intrapartum stillbirth in Mombasa, Kenya

September 27, 2019

A pilot one-stop service model to streamline the efficiency of PrEP implementation in public health facilities in Kenya

September 24, 2019

Prevalence and correlates of pediatric guideline deviation across 9 health facilities

September 24, 2019

Estimating the cost-effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery through maternal and child health clinics in Kenya

September 19, 2019

A differentiated care model to improve the efficiency of PrEP delivery in Kenya

September 16, 2019

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers

September 4, 2019

Testing implementation strategies to improve delivery of PrEP for pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya

August 7, 2019

Population Management for Hereditary Cancer Prevention: Implementation, Effectiveness, and Acceptability Within A Learning Health System

August 5, 2019

Simplifying HIV Treatment and Monitoring (STREAM2): Point-of-Care Urine Tenofovir Adherence and Viral Load Testing to Improve HIV Outcomes in South Africa

July 30, 2019

Optimizing Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Delivery in the United States

January 14, 2019

Implementation Fidelity and Benefits of the Critical Care Pediatric Guideline Adherence and Outcomes Program in Traumatic Brain Injury

January 1, 2019

2018 Funding Awards

Modeling approaches to prioritize TB prevention among people with HIV in Uganda

December 12, 2018

Leveraging routing science to optimize ART delivery for efficient scale-up, high ART coverage, and viral suppression in South Africa

November 1, 2018

Evaluating Effectiveness of a Communication Facilitator to Reduce Distress and Improve Goal Concordant Care for Critically Ill Patients and Their Families

September 27, 2018

OHEAL: Oral Health Equity in Alaska

September 19, 2018

Addressing adverse outcomes following acute illness among children in Sub-Saharan Africa: predicting risks and cost-effectiveness

September 18, 2018

Strengthening the Integration of Mental Health and HIV Services in South Africa: Implementation Science in Support of Scale-Up, Adaptation, and Dissemination

September 16, 2018

Implementation and Impact of Cancer Screening Navigation by Community Health Workers in Two National Screening Programs

September 15, 2018

Integrating Implementation Science and Cultural Adaptation to Understand Intervention Modifications within School-Based Mental Health

September 1, 2018

Randomized Controlled Trial of an Implementation Science Tool to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening in Mombasa, Kenya

July 6, 2018

University of Washington ALACRITY Center for Psychosocial Interventions Research

May 15, 2018

Increasing Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions at Low-Wage Worksites

May 11, 2018

Spreading the Integrated District Evidence-To-Action Program for Neonatal Mortality Reduction (IDEAS) in Mozambique

May 7, 2018

Improving the HIV Care Cascade in Kenya through Implementation Science Training

April 24, 2018

2017 Funding Awards

Strengthening the Integration of Mental Health and HIV Services in South Africa: Implementation Science In Support Of Scale-Up, Adaptation, and Dissemination

September 16, 2017

The University of Washington Implementation Sciences Training Program

September 1, 2017

Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize task-shifted mental health diagnosis and treatment cascades (SAIA-MH)

September 1, 2017

Measure Development to Accelerate the Translation of Evidence Based Clinical Guidelines into Practice

August 17, 2017

Implementing Assisted Partner Services to HIV Test and Treat Men in Western Kenya

June 23, 2017

Transform Dissemination and Implementation Science in CTSA Programs

June 1, 2017

The Impact of Inter-Organizational Alignment (IOA) on Implementation Outcomes

June 1, 2017

Scaling up the systems analysis and improvement approach for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Mozambique (SAIA-SCALE)

March 15, 2017

Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach To Optimize the Pediatric HIV Diagnosis and Care Cascade (SAIA-PEDS)

January 1, 2017

2014-2016 Funding Awards

RCT of an Implementation Science Tool to Integrate HIV Testing Into Family Planning Services

September 1, 2016

Advancing Implementation Science through Measure Development and Evaluation

August 20, 2016

Point-Of-Care Viral Load Testing to Enable Task Shifting for Chronic HIV Care

May 1, 2016

Optimizing Repeat HIV Testing During Pregnancy and Postpartum for PMTCT

July 10, 2015

Women and HIV: Translation Of Research Into Practice

May 15, 2015

Staff and School Factors Affecting Implementation of ASD Interventions in Schools

September 25, 2014

Clinic-Based Screening to Prevent HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Mortality

March 1, 2014