The Implementation Science Core (ISC) helps Tennessee CFAR investigators improve the delivery of HIV prevention and treatment services. The Core provides expertise in implementation science, helping researchers understand how to move evidence-based interventions into real-world settings and improve their reach, quality, and sustainability. 

The ISC offers consultation, collaboration, and mentorship to investigators across the research continuum. Working closely with researchers, healthcare providers, community partners, and people affected by HIV, the Core helps develop, evaluate, and scale strategies that improve HIV prevention and care. By expanding implementation science capacity across Tennessee CFAR, the ISC helps translate research findings into meaningful public health impact through three specific aims. 

• SPECIFIC AIM 1: Establish the Implementation Science Consultation Program (IS-Consult) to support Tennessee CFAR investigators and their community partners. 

• SPECIFIC AIM 2: Provide ongoing Implementation Science Collaborative Partnerships (IS-Partner) to HIV investigators and community partners, integrating IS concepts, frameworks, and outcomes into funded projects. 

• SPECIFIC AIM 3: Provide Implementation Science Mentorship (IS-Mentor) to researchers and their community partners to advance sustainable IS expertise to End the HIV Epidemic. 

The ISC is well-poised to support HIV researchers to lead rigorous, contextually appropriate IS projects that address the needs of local communities and advance Ending the HIV Epidemic goals. The ISC augments the capacity of researchers to translate effective HIV interventions into improved health outcomes through the application of IS methods. We leverage existing community partnerships to build trust and create evidence that matters to our most-impacted communities. 

The Implementation Science Core provides four key services to support HIV researchers:

• Clinic: Ad hoc sessions to support grant writing, manuscript preparation, protocol development, or the development of roadmap/toolkits for integrating implementation strategies and outcomes into effectiveness trials

• Partnership: Intensive support sessions for teams looking to incorporate implementation science elements into ongoing and future trials, with a focus on long-term, substantive collaboration 

• Grant Studio: A one-time consultative session where researchers receive feedback from a panel of implementation science experts on the planning, design, implementation, translation, or dissemination of their work

• Mentorship: A series of sessions designed for early career investigators seeking coaching and guidance in implementation science

To request any of these services, please complete this survey.