# Implementation Science and Health Outcomes Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · 2020 · $201,727

## Abstract

Although millions of lives have been saved by new biomedical technologies and expansion of prevention
and treatment in low- and middle-income countries, many vulnerable people – including in the US – are not
benefiting from these advances. Implementation science (IS) research can maximize public health impact by
addressing suboptimal implementation of evidence-based strategies; identifying ways in which health care
systems and policies fail to adequately address the HIV prevention and care continua; and identifying
population-based strategies to improve HIV outcomes in the US and globally. The Implementation Science
and Health Outcomes (ISHO) Core will address the HIV Center's overall theme by catalyzing innovative IS
research that identifies and tests strategies to optimize “real-world” uptake and impact of effective HIV
prevention and care continua interventions at scale. The Core has three Specific Aims: (1) to stimulate new IS
research and collaborations to improve key outcomes along the HIV prevention and care continua; (2) to
advance new IS research to prevent or reduce HIV-related health disparities that are driven by suboptimal
intervention implementation or by psychiatric and other comorbidities; and (3) to promote the use of health
policy analysis, policy modeling, and economic evaluation to bridge the evidence-practice and evidence-policy
gaps that drive suboptimal population-based implementation and disparities.
 The ISHO Core will accomplish its Aims through functions that include (1) providing expert consultation to
HIV Center researchers on conducting IS research that (a) both tests new approaches to improve HIV-related
programmatic outcomes and assesses causes of successful and un-successful implementation of interventions
and policies at scale, and (b) incorporates the perspectives of policy translation, policy modeling, and
economic evaluation into their research; (2) developing Scientific Working Groups to provide structured and
focused guidance to (and collaboration with) Center investigators interested in or embarking on IS through
dynamic small groups organized around specific themes (e.g., PrEP implementation, psychiatric
comorbidities); (3) facilitating access to linked networks for HIV Center investigators addressing IS-related
research questions; and (4) sponsoring seminars to stimulate the use of IS approaches in research. The
proposed Core Director, Denis Nash, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist and Director of the Institute for
Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) at the City University of New York. Core Co-Director,
Milton Wainberg, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia
University Department of Psychiatry. Together they have extensive expertise in NIH-funded research and
capacity building for HIV and mental health treatment and prevention. The Core brings together early stage,
mid-career, and established investigators in the areas of IS, health-disparities, a...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9873087
- **Project number:** 5P30MH043520-32
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC
- **Principal Investigator:** Denis Nash
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $201,727
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9873087

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9873087, Implementation Science and Health Outcomes Core (5P30MH043520-32). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9873087. Licensed CC0.

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