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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2026 Funding Awards
University of Washington Behavioral Innovation Research Center for HIV
Susan M. Graham, MD, PhD, MPH...
Testing a novel person-centered contraceptive decision support tool
Elizabeth K. Harrington, MD, MPH...
Integrating Injectable LEN PrEP Delivery in Maternal and Child Health Clinics to Prevent HIV in Pregnant and Postpartum Women
Kenneth Mugwanya MBChB, MS, PhD...
Implementing a team-based care model to increase cervical cancer screening uptake in low-resource primary care settings
Michelle Bom Yi Shin, PhD, MPH, MSN...
2025 Funding Awards
Implementation strategies for supporting maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR)
Arianna Means, PhD, MPH
Assessment of Implementation Strategies for an Innovative Facility-Specific Human Milk Pasteurizer in an Ethiopian NICU
Krystle Perez, MD
Mechanisms of Action for mobile SMS PrEP adherence intervention
Anjuli D. Wagner, PhD, MPH
2024 Funding Awards
TB PrEP – Integrating HIV prevention with TB household contact evaluation
Jennifer Ross, MD, MPH
Examining the Implementation and Impact of School Resource Officer Policy Reform in the United States
Keith Hullenaar, PhD
Scaling up integrated PrEP delivery in Kenyan maternal and child health clinics for pregnant and postpartum women
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
Yanfang Su, ScD
Learning and Living with Wildfire Smoke: Creating Clean Air Environments in Schools through Youth Participatory Action Research
Savannah D'Evelyn, PhD
Optimizing Evidence-Based Practice Implementation for Clinical Impact: The IMPACT Center – Exploratory Project 3
Aaron Lyon, PhD
2022 Funding Awards
Accelerating Delivery of rheumatic heart disease preventive iNterventions in Uganda (ADUNU)
David Watkins, PhD
Addressing Clinician Bias to Improve Equitable Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice
Freda Liu, PhD & Aaron Lyon, PhD
2021 Funding Awards
Evaluating and optimizing a virtual care model for PrEP delivery
Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD
Modeling the public health impact of using HIV ST for PrEP initiation
Monisha Sharma, PhD
Optimizing Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Seeking Reproductive Health Care in Kenya
Yasaman Zia
MECHANISMS: The MECHANics of Implementation Strategies and MeasureS
Bryan J. Weiner, PhD & Cara C. Lewis, PhD
Policy Framework To Operationalize The Use Of Huduma Namba For Health Sector Unique Patient Identification (UPI) In Kenya
Jeff Lane, JD, MPH
Optimizing Evidence-Based Practice Implementation for Clinical Impact: the IMPACT Center
Shannon Dorsey, PhD & Bryan Weiner, PhD
Implementation and Sustainment of Team-Based Practice Transformation to Improve Heart Failure Care and Outcomes
Erin Blakeney, PhD, RN
PARACAS: Program for Advanced Research Capacities for AIDS in Peru
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
Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, MSc, DPhil
Mentoring and research to prepare oral PrEP delivery platforms for novel HIV prevention products
Renee Heffron, PhD, MPH
The design and evaluation of strategies to implement HIV prevention interventions for pregnant women in community pharmacy settings
Melissa Mugambi, MD, PhD
2020 Funding Awards
Leveraging implementation science to accelerate adoption of shorter-course radiation for breast and prostate cancer
Erin Gillespie, MD, MPH
Integrating expedited partner STI therapy during PrEP delivery for young women
Jennifer Balkus, PhD, MPH
mWACh-PrEP: A SMS-based Support Intervention to Enhance PrEP Adherence during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Jillian Pintye, PhD, MPH, RN
Building Capacity to Address the Burden of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Diseases in LMICs
Annette L. Fitzpatrick, PhD
Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health in Kenya Department of Health and Human Services
Peter Rabinowitz, MD, PhD
Delivery of Integrated PrEP and ART for HIV prevention for couples in Kenya
Jared Baeten, MD, PhD
Implementation science research on PrEP delivery and costing within MAT and NSP services for PWUD in Uganda
Renee Heffron, PhD
Integrating PrEP delivery in family planning clinics in Kenya
Kenneth Mugwanya, MBChB, MS, PhD
Community participatory action research to increase MDA coverage in hard-to-reach urban populations
Judd Walson, MD, MPH
Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across The Nation
Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
Peer PrEP referral + HIV self-test for PrEP initiation among young Kenyan women
Katrina Ortblad, ScD, MPH
Evaluating the Scale-Up of HIV Partner Services in Mozambique
Matthew Golden, MD, MPH
Field Studies on Feasibility of Elimination of Soil Transmitted Helminths
Judd Walson, MD, MPH
Evaluating Implementation Strategies to Scale-up Transdiagnostic Evidence-based Mental Health Care in Zambia
Christopher Kemp, PhD
2019 Funding Awards
Digital treatments for opioids and other substance use disorders (DIGITS) in primary care: A hybrid type-III implementation trial
Edwind Wong, PhD
PrEP optimized for mothers (PrOM): Efficient PrEP integration in MCH clinics
Grace C. John-Stewart, MD, PhD & Pamela Kohler, PhD, MPH, BSN, RN
The Optimizing Implementation in Cancer Control (OPTICC) Center
Bryan J. Weiner, PhD & Peggy Hannon, PhD
Pre-post study of an audit and feedback intervention to reduce intrapartum stillbirth in Mombasa, Kenya
Jess Long, PhD, MPH & R. Scott McLelland, MD, MPH
A pilot one-stop service model to streamline the efficiency of PrEP implementation in public health facilities in Kenya
Jared Baeten, MD, PhD
Prevalence and correlates of pediatric guideline deviation across 9 health facilities
Arianna Rubin Means, PhD
Estimating the cost-effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery through maternal and child health clinics in Kenya
Ruanne Barnabas, DPhil, MBChB
A differentiated care model to improve the efficiency of PrEP delivery in Kenya
Kenneth Mugwanya, MBChB, MS, PhD
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers
Margaret (Peggy) Hannon, PhD, MPH
Testing implementation strategies to improve delivery of PrEP for pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya
Anjuli D. Wagner, PhD
Population Management for Hereditary Cancer Prevention: Implementation, Effectiveness, and Acceptability Within A Learning Health System
Margaret (Peggy) Hannon, PhD, MPH
Simplifying HIV Treatment and Monitoring (STREAM2): Point-of-Care Urine Tenofovir Adherence and Viral Load Testing to Improve HIV Outcomes in South Africa
Paul Drain, MD, MPH; Ruanne Barnabas, MD; & Jane Simoni, PhD
Optimizing Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Delivery in the United States
Kenneth Sherr, PhD
Implementation Fidelity and Benefits of the Critical Care Pediatric Guideline Adherence and Outcomes Program in Traumatic Brain Injury
Monica Vavilala, MD
2018 Funding Awards
Modeling approaches to prioritize TB prevention among people with HIV in Uganda
Jennifer Ross, MD, MPH
Leveraging routing science to optimize ART delivery for efficient scale-up, high ART coverage, and viral suppression in South Africa
Ruanne Barnabas, MD & Adam Szpiro, PhD
Evaluating Effectiveness of a Communication Facilitator to Reduce Distress and Improve Goal Concordant Care for Critically Ill Patients and Their Families
J. Randall Curtis, MD
Addressing adverse outcomes following acute illness among children in Sub-Saharan Africa: predicting risks and cost-effectiveness
Rebecca Brander
Implementation and Impact of Cancer Screening Navigation by Community Health Workers in Two National Screening Programs
Wendy Barrington, PhD
Integrating Implementation Science and Cultural Adaptation to Understand Intervention Modifications within School-Based Mental Health
Stephanie Brewer
Randomized Controlled Trial of an Implementation Science Tool to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening in Mombasa, Kenya
McKenna Claire Eastment, MD
University of Washington ALACRITY Center for Psychosocial Interventions Research
Patricia A. Areán, PhD
Increasing Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions at Low-Wage Worksites
Peggy Hannon, PhD
Spreading the Integrated District Evidence-To-Action Program for Neonatal Mortality Reduction (IDEAS) in Mozambique
Kenneth Sherr, PhD
Improving the HIV Care Cascade in Kenya through Implementation Science Training
Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH
2017 Funding Awards
2014-2016 Funding Awards
RCT of an Implementation Science Tool to Integrate HIV Testing Into Family Planning Services
R. Scott McLelland, MD, MPH
Advancing Implementation Science through Measure Development and Evaluation
Bryan J. Weiner, PhD
Point-Of-Care Viral Load Testing to Enable Task Shifting for Chronic HIV Care
Paul Drain, MD, MPH
Optimizing Repeat HIV Testing During Pregnancy and Postpartum for PMTCT
Alison Drake, PhD
Staff and School Factors Affecting Implementation of ASD Interventions in Schools
Jill Locke, PhD
Clinic-Based Screening to Prevent HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Mortality
Paul Drain, MD, MPH