Building Research Capacity to Bridge the Gap from Science to Service

Posted by on September 1, 2008

2nd NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building Research Capacity to Bridge the Gap from Science to Service

Bethesda, MD · January 28-29, 2009

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-086.html

Each year, billions of U.S. tax dollars are spent on research and hundreds of billions are spent on service delivery programs.  However, relatively little is spent on, or known about, how best to ensure that the lessons learned from research inform and improve the quality of health and human services and the availability and utilization of evidence-based approaches.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recognized that closing the gap between research discovery and program delivery is both a complex challenge and an absolute necessity if we are to ensure that all populations benefit from the Nation’s investments in new scientific discoveries.


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