Public Health Research
Research methods for understanding health-service gaps and translating evidence into routine practice. Explore implementation research through ten editorial guides adapted from uploaded WHO/TDR learning modules.
Implementation Research
Identify implementation problems, develop and specify delivery strategies, then evaluate what changes in real settings.
Explore Implementation ResearchLearning guides
10 of 10 guidesWhat Is Implementation Research? Concepts, Scope and Three Core Phases
Understand implementation research, how it differs from intervention and health systems research, and how teams define problems, design strategies and test delivery in real settings.
Read guideContext and Settings in Implementation Research: Why Local Conditions Matter
Map inner and outer settings, stakeholders and delivery processes to identify implementation research needs without mistaking historical programme targets for current guidance.
Read guideImplementation Research Needs Assessment: Data Sources and Practical Methods
Use routine records, surveys, interviews and observation to identify service-delivery bottlenecks, triangulate evidence and protect confidentiality in implementation research.
Read guideHow to Formulate Implementation Research Questions from Programme Gaps
Convert coverage gaps, stock-outs and supervision findings into focused implementation research questions with a defined setting, strategy, outcome and feasible scope.
Read guideImplementation Research Case Studies: Community Delivery, Access and Policy Constraints
Learn from historical community-directed intervention cases and assess transferability, delivery safeguards, policy constraints and sustainable implementation in new settings.
Read guideImplementation Strategies: Types, Actors and Seven Reporting Dimensions
Distinguish single-component and multifaceted implementation strategies and specify actors, actions, targets, timing, dose, outcomes and justification for reproducible research.
Read guideSelecting Implementation Strategies: Barriers, Facilitators and Justification
Identify determinants of practice, match strategies to local barriers and justify choices with theory, empirical evidence and pragmatic constraints before implementation.
Read guideImplementation Research Study Design: PICO, Mixed Methods and Comparison Groups
Choose implementation research designs from the question: PICO, qualitative and quantitative methods, cluster trials, before-and-after studies and interrupted time series.
Read guideBed-Net Delivery in Mozambique: An Implementation Research Case Study
Explore a historical Mozambique bed-net delivery case: household registration, allocation rules, queues and evaluation of a community-based implementation strategy.
Read guideImplementation Research Outcomes: Efficacy, Effectiveness and Delivery Success
Distinguish intervention efficacy, real-world effectiveness and implementation effectiveness, and define acceptability, adoption, fidelity, cost, reach and sustainability measures.
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