Section on Methodologies for Advancing Implementation Research (MAIR)

Many instruments have been developed to improve the fit of an evidence-based intervention for its context. However, tools that address implementation outcomes (e.g., acceptability, feasibility, appropriateness, adoption, sustainability, and scalability) have not been readily adapted to low- and middle-income countries. Moreover, as the field continues to evolve, there is an opportunity and need to develop strategies that can assist researchers/policy makers/practitioners to identify the best evidence for implementation in global settings.

The research that the MAIR Section undertakes has a core mission of developing tools, instruments, and methodologies to advance the field of implementation science by either creating and/or adapting available tools/methods in a context-specific manner for low resource settings. This includes novel processes to evaluate the quality of evidence to produce the optimal intervention and/or implementation strategies to address our core research priority areas, including maternal health, sickle cell disease, HIV/AIDS, noncommunicable diseases, and mental health. The core of MAIR is evidence generation to guide the development of hybrid implementation studies that assess the clinical effectiveness of evidence-based interventions focused on our core priority research areas. MAIR underpins the research of the ISEE Lab, and its tools and methods interdigitate with all our Sections.

Section Leader: John Pateña, MPH, MA (john.patena@nyu.edu)