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ISBNPA Webinar SIG Implementation and Scalability: Implementation and scalability of efficacious health promotion programs: Understanding impact beyond the research setting.

Start Date: 03/06/2017
End Date: 03/06/2017
Place: Webinar
Organization: SIG Implementation and Scalability
When: March 6, 2017
Time: 17:00 EST (which means 22:00 GMT & March 7 9:00 AEDT Melbourne Time)

Title of webinar

Implementation and scalability of efficacious health promotion programs: Understanding impact beyond the research setting.

SIG Chair 

Dr Femke van Nassau (SIG Chair)

Department of Public and Occupational Health and EMGO institute at the VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands.  

Speakers 

1. Dr Harriet Koorts (SIG Co-Chair)

Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, 3125, Australia.


2. Associate Professor Luke Wolfenden1,2

1School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia.

2Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, 2300, Australia


3. Associate Professor Chris Lonsdale

Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, NSW, 2135, Australia.

Webinar moderator

Dr Harriet Koorts 

Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, 3125, Australia.

Abstract 

Taking an efficacious health promotion program to scale, implementing it effectively and successfully maintaining its effectiveness is a complex and lengthy process. High quality implementation is associated with improved program outcomes, yet implementation and scale up processes are influenced by an array of factors beyond researcher control. There is consensus within the field of implementation science that intervention attributes, implementer and organisational characteristics, and environmental context all affect implementation and scale up; yet the challenge of identifying and assessing the presence and impact of these factors in real-world trials remains particularly challenging.

In this webinar, Associate Professors Luke Wolfenden and Chris Lonsdale will present two approaches to designing and conducting real-world intervention trials, to assess the implementation of nutrition policies and guidelines, and ways to enhance physical activity in the school setting. Both speakers will present strategies and challenges quantifying implementation quality and associating this with effectiveness in practice. Dr Harriet Koorts will chair the session, briefly introducing guiding models and frameworks in implementation science, clarifying some distinctions between implementation and scalability. The final 15 minutes of this webinar will allow for questions, discussion and debate.

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