Evidence-based Intervention Implementation Accelerator
Executive Summary
NCI’s Research-tested Intervention Programs website, is a searchable database of over 150 evidence-based cancer control interventions developed primarily from federally supported research grants. Evidenced-based interventions posted on the site focus on cancer screening, diet/nutrition, HPV vaccination, informed decision-making, obesity, physical activity, public health genomics, sun safety, survivorship and tobacco control. These interventions are intended to have an impact on public health but are frequently not designed to be implemented in the real world.
This project seeks to help behavioral researchers develop and implement successful behavioral interventions into common practice.
Between June and September of 2015, this team explored how to:
- gain a better understanding of how to help researchers move their cancer control interventions into commercial products
- determine mechanisms for supporting researchers in moving towards commercialization
- develop a beta version of a process that facilitates linking researchers with business and other partners
- shorten the length of time it takes to move behavioral research into practice
- refine the components of this process with targeted researchers
The Innovation: NCI’s solution is a Dissemination and Implementation Accelerator Program, a curriculum designed to help researchers create a business plan for moving their interventions from the development and testing phase (including designing the interventions for dissemination) through marketing and distribution to iterative designs and scale-up. This curriculum would most benefit researchers who have posted interventions on the Research-tested Intervention Programs website and former trainees of the Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health.
Researchers acknowledge they are not entrepreneurs and need to collaborate and network with businesses. Researchers need additional training on how to better design their interventions for dissemination and implementation and guidance for developing an implementation/business plan. Researchers would benefit from assistance with identifying business and practice partners that can help with promotion and distribution of their interventions. This accelerator program could address the issues in the current process for getting successful interventions into the real world.
A project supported by the: HHS Ignite Accelerator
Team Members
Cynthia Vinson (Project Lead), NIH/NCI
Antoinette Percy-Laurry, NIH/NCI
Annabelle Uy, NIH/NCI
April Oh, NIH/NCI
David Chambers, NIH/NCI
Milestones
June 2015: Project selected into the HHS Ignite Accelerator
July 2015: Time in the Accelerator began
September 2015: Time in the Accelerator ended
Project Sponsor
David Chambers, DPhil, Deputy Director for Implementation Science, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH
