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Keywords: Opinion

✪ Enduring contributions to implementation science: Honoring the legacy of Bryan R. Garner

Authors:

Sara J Becker, James H Ford II, Joseph E Glass, Heather J Gotham, Hannah K Knudsen, Andrew Quanbeck, Mat Roosa & Emily C Williams

University of Washington affiliated authors are displayed in bold.

✪ Open Access

Published: October 2025

Read the full text in the open access journal Frontiers in Health Services

With heavy hearts, we are writing to celebrate the scientific contributions of our colleague and friend, Bryan R. Garner, PhD, who passed away incomprehensibly at the age of 49 on June 20, 2025. Bryan was a professor at The Ohio State University, where he served as Director of Dissemination & Implementation Science in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Director of Dissemination & Implementation Research for the Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking (CATALYST). Bryan formed enduring collaborations and friendships across the institutions where he worked and trained. He maintained career-long relationships with colleagues from Texas Christian University, where he earned his PhD in Experimental Psychology (1–3), and from Chestnut Health Systems (4–7) and RTI International (8–10), where he built and expanded his research program.

✪ Reimagining policy implementation science in a global context: a theoretical discussion

Authors:

Kellie List, Peter Agamile, Didier Yélognissè Alia, Peter Cherutich, Kristen Danforth, John Kinuthia, Arianna Rubin Means, Irene Mukui, Nancy Ngumbau, Yanfang Su, Anjuli Dawn Wagner, Bryan J Weiner, and Sarah Masyuko

University of Washington affiliated authors are displayed in bold.

✪ Open Access

Published: September 2024

Read the full text in the open access journal Frontiers in Health Services

Abstract:

Introduction

Policy implementation science (IS) is defined here as generating knowledge and deploying implementation strategies to effectively adopt and integrate evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into policy designs and improve policy implementation and effectiveness (1–3). Most existing policy IS scholarly works originate from the Global North (United States, Canada, and Western Europe) and describe or evaluate strategies to increase the uptake of EBIs (4). The existing Global North-generated frameworks focus less on the critical resources needed to formulate and implement a policy in diverse settings. Current approaches to policy IS lack sufficient contextual nuance to be applicable to...[read more].

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