What are effective strategies for community-based participatory dissemination and implementation research initiatives in rural settings?

• Limited number of studies that adapt evidence- or practice-based interventions to rural settings
• Needs innovative approaches to engaging the rural community
• New intervention approaches needs testing in rural communities
• Building a team would have to involve of local community... more »

What is the basis for relative resistance or vulnerabilities to obesity or related adverse health effects observed in various segments of population?

How can guideline recommendations be implemented into community practice in a way that is feasible, usable, relevant, and cost-effective? (examples are use of care management, translation of chronic care model, and EMR based tools)

Large medical delivery systems have an abundance of information stored in their EHR systems. What steps are necessary to develop partnerships between NHLBI and medical delivery systems or other agencies such as AHRQ to access these EHR systems, develop a common terminology (if icd 9 and other common codes are ineffective for merging data) and add that data to dbGap for NIH/community use?

There is a need to initiate innovative community trials that are: theory-based; are integrated multi-component, multi-setting, and multi-level (i.e., they target individual, family, community, and built environment); engage community stakeholders; and use community-participatory research principles to enhance cardiovascular health (CVH) in vulnerable and diverse populations.

What incentives will encourage current and new NHLBI investigators to pursue late translation (T4) research of proven effective interventions in heart, lung, blood, and sleep diseases?

One of NHLBI’s current strategic plan’s goals is to translate discovery and early translation research knowledge to late stage T4 translation for use in populations so that it has significant positive health impacts and provides a return... more »