DIS-SIG

The Dissemination and Implementation Science (DIS) SIG held a joint preconference and Happy Hour with SCCAP last week at ABCT. We had a blast reconnecting and learning from one another. @abctnow.bsky.social @dissig.bsky.social

Another ABCT in the books! Very grateful to the @dissig.bsky.social for awarding me with a travel award this year. Looking forward to the next conference!

And that’s a wrap folks on #ABCT2025 as always, it was so fun to hear about the amazing work from our DIS SIG and to celebrate folks! Safe travels! Til next year! 😌

#ABCT2025 is not over yet! Catch the last set of DIS SIG authored talks & show support before you head back home!

Congrats to our lifetime achievement award winner, Dr. Sara Landes! WHAT AN IMPACTFUL CAREER! 🎉

The DIS SIG is committed to uplifting the rigorous and meaningful work of early career scholars! Congrats/felicidades to our student poster honorees!

We got the big room for the DIS SIG business meeting 😎 #ABCT2025 #DISSIG

A little SIG expo recap from Friday! Love to see all the support from faculty and the excellent work of the new gen of trainees!

Extremely impressive implementation across 91 LGBT centers. Kudos for the comprehensive measurement strategy!

It’s me, I’m the friendly face 🤗

Get ready for the DIS SIG business meeting at 1:30pm CST! #ABCT2025

Consider checking out the DIS SIG sponsored symp on nationwide efforts implementing LGBTQ-affirmative CBT @ 10am!

On today’s line up of exciting presentations from our DIS SIG members! #ABCT2025

A couple of 5pm sessions from our DIS SIG members you can check out on this Friday eve! @abctnow.bsky.social

Don’t forget to stop by the SIG Poster Expo today 6:30-8:30! #ABCT2025

So many friendly faces at the 2025 Social Hour 🤗

Was great to see so many members at our 2025 Preconference, co-hosted by @sccap53.bsky.social

🏄‍♂️ DIS SIG SOCIAL HOUR: TOMORROW! 11/20 5-7pm CST
Location: Lucy’s Retired Surfer’s Bar and Restaurant in NOLA
Cost: Free to attend

Who is in NOLA?! #ABCT2025

🚨 🏫 Hiring a full-time Research Assistant in the @uoregon Psych Dept to work on school-based implementation science focused on bilingual provider training & Latinx newcomer youth. Please share with others! Will begin reviewing apps 11/15! forms.gle/fCwpDS6uJ5Ur....

2025 Pre-Conference Registration and Social Hour RSVP The DIS SIG is happy to be holding the annual pre-conference followed by a social hour. The event will be co-sponsored by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP). This form wil...

🌟 Heading to #NewOrleans for ABCT? Join our Preconference + Social Hour on Nov 20! Cost: Free for SCCAP and DIS-SIG members!

💡 Preconference: 2–4pm CT | Hyatt Regency
🥂 Social Hour: 5–7pm CT | Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar (20-min walk from hotel)
🔗 Register: forms.gle/cBqMPRtBmXF9...

FYI: DIS SIG Business Meeting will now be held on Saturday November 22 from 1:30-3:00pm. #ABCT2025 #NOLA

Baker Center for Children and Families is hiring! Two Postdoctoral Fellowships & One Doctoral Internship. Check our their site for more info (scroll down on the page): www.bakercenter.org/training

Fall Implementation Science seminar series, co-sponsored by Advance-RI CTR, BRIDGE, and the ARCH Center at Brown University!

2025 Pre-Conference Registration and Social Hour RSVP The DIS SIG is happy to be holding the annual pre-conference followed by a social hour. The event will be co-sponsored by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP). This form wil...

2025 ABCT Preconference AND the Social Hour will be free! Huge shout out to our co-sponsor @SCCAP53 !

Register to attend both events here: forms.gle/cBqMPRtBmXF9...

Implementation of state health insurance benefit mandates for cancer-related fertility preservation: following policy through a complex system - Implementation Science Background A myriad of federal, state, and organizational policies are designed to improve access to evidence-based healthcare, but the impact of these policies likely varies due to contextual determinants of, reinterpretations of, and poor compliance with policy requirements throughout implementation. Strategies enhancing implementation and compliance with policy intent can improve population health. Critically assessing the multi-level environments where health policies and their related health services are implemented is essential to designing effective policy-level implementation strategies. California passed a 2019 health insurance benefit mandate requiring coverage of fertility preservation services for individuals at risk of infertility due to medical treatments, in order to improve access to services that are otherwise cost prohibitive. Our objective was to document and understand the multi-level environment, relationships, and activities involved in using state benefit mandates to facilitate patient access to fertility preservation services. Methods We conducted a mixed-methods study and used the policy-optimized exploration, preparation, implementation, and sustainment (EPIS) framework to analyze the implementation of California’s fertility preservation benefit mandate (SB 600) at and between the state insurance regulator, insurer, and clinic levels. Results Seventeen publicly available fertility preservation benefit mandate-relevant documents were reviewed. Interviews were conducted with four insurers; 25 financial, administrative, and provider participants from 16 oncology and fertility clinics; three fertility pharmaceutical representatives; and two patient advocates. The mandate and insurance regulator guidance represented two “Big P” (system level) policies that gave rise to a host of “little p” (organizational) policies by and between the regulator, insurers, clinics, and patients. Many little p policies were bridging factors to support implementation across levels and fertility preservation service access. Characterizing the mandate’s functions (i.e., policy goals) and forms (i.e., ways that policies were enacted) led to identification of (1) intended and unintended implementation, service, and patient outcomes, (2) implementation processes by level and EPIS phase, (3) actor-delineated key processes and heterogeneity among them, and (4) inner and outer context determinants that drove adaptations. Conclusions Following the midstream and downstream implementation of a state health insurance benefit mandate, data generated will enable development of policy-level implementation strategies, evaluation of determinants and important outcomes of effective implementation, and design of future mandates to improve fit and fidelity.

Study led by Irene Su, M.D. - EPIS framework illustrates when a legislative health policy is passed, it winds its way through a maze of insurance regulation, health insurer benefit design, and how health care organizations and patients navigate these structures and processes. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

DIS SIG 2025 Career Achievement Award Nomination Form Please describe how the candidate demonstrates significant contributions to Dissemination and Implementation Science SIG (DIS SIG) and the field of dissemination and implementation more broadly in the...

Tomorrow is the last day to submit nominations for the DIS SIG Early Career Award and Career Achievement Award! Elevate someone you think is amazing! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dissemination and Implementation Special Interest Group

📢 The DIS SIG is now accepting 2025–2026 membership renewals!
✅ Students: $10 | Full members: $20
✅ Keep access to our listserv, conference events, coffee hours & more.

Renew here 👉 dissig.tidyhq.com

✨ If you joined after July 1, 2025, we’ll update your membership manually.

Northwestern Launches New Online Certificate and MPH Concentration in Implementation Science Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine has launched two new graduate offerings on advanced implementation science methodologies and design strategies.

Exciting #impsci news: @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social recently launched two new IS-focused training opportunities:
~Implementation Science in Public Health and Medicine Certificate
~Master of Public Health with concentration in Implementation Science
www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/...