Israel Implementation Science and Policy Engagement Centre (IS-PEC)

This year has been one of immense challenges, reflection, and resilience, reminding us of the critical importance of our work in health systems and policy, especially during times of crisis. As we approach the new year, we are deeply grateful for the strength of our community, the partnerships that sustain us, and our shared commitment to advancing evidence-based practices that improve lives. We wish you and your loved ones a season of peace, healing, and hope. Our prayers remain with the safety of our soldiers, the immediate return of all hostages, and for peace and serenity in our region and across the globe. Together, let’s continue striving for impactful change in 2025 and beyond. #SeasonsGreetings #ImplementationScience #HealthPolicy

This critical interpretive synthesis lays a strong foundation for advancing the role of Living Evidence Syntheses (LESs) in bridging evidence and decision-making, refining LES methodologies, and improving their integration into policymaking processes. The focus on demand-side and supply-side triggers is particularly valuable for aligning evidence production with real-world needs, a critical step in making LESs impactful. We have the potential to create dynamic, continuously updated research frameworks, can we redesign research production to be more responsive? The framework suggests opportunities to: 👉 Coordinate research to reduce duplicative efforts 👉 Create more adaptive evidence for decision-makers 👉 Extend living evidence beyond syntheses to datasets Are we ready to transform how knowledge is produced and shared? #LivingEvidence #EvidenceInformedPolicymaking

🌍 December 3rd: International Day of Persons with Disabilities This year’s theme, “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future,” underscores the importance of meaningful inclusion and empowerment. Persons with disabilities must be at the forefront of decision-making processes, guiding the policies that shape a more inclusive world. Turning this vision into reality requires evidence-informed policymaking and focused strategies: 🔎 Improving Accessibility: Use evidence to identify and scale solutions that remove barriers to healthcare, education, and employment. 🗣️ Fostering Inclusive Leadership: Collaborate with policymakers to develop initiatives that place persons with disabilities in leadership roles, ensuring their voices lead the way. 📍 Tailoring Policies to Contexts: Engage with local stakeholders to adapt global best practices to meet the unique needs of communities, ensuring policies are relevant, impactful and sustainable. 📊 Monitoring Progress: Design systems to evaluate inclusion efforts, gathering data to refine and sustain successful programs over time. Policy engagement plays a pivotal role in turning inclusive aspirations into actionable outcomes. By working with decision-makers, communities, and advocates, we can ensure that every voice is heard and every person has a chance to lead. 💡 How are you contributing to this vision? Share your initiatives or reflections below. #IDPD2024 #PolicyEngagement #EvidenceInformedPolicymaking #Inclusion #Accessibility #Leadership

On this Palliative Care and Treatment National Day of Awareness, IS-PEC highlights the role of #ImplementationScience in fostering compassionate, evidence-based healthcare that enhances patient quality of life. Palliative care isn’t just about managing end-of-life, it’s about delivering holistic, patient-centered care across the continuum of serious illness. Our mission at IS-PEC is to bridge the gap between evidence and practice, and palliative care helps ensures that patients receive care that aligns with their values and needs. A current study by IS-PEC leverages the Theoretical Domains Framework (#TDF) to identify behavioral and systemic barriers to end-of-life care in oncology. The study explored why oncologists may continue aggressive treatments at end-of-life, despite best-practice guidelines. Findings included key barriers to implementation, facilitators for change and recommendations to transforming end-of-life care. Implementation science offers a roadmap for translating research into action. By identifying what works, for whom, and in what contexts, IS-PEC is driving sustainable change to reduce overtreatment, improve care quality, and enhance patient and provider well-being. On this important day, let’s reaffirm our commitment to compassionate, evidence-based healthcare. Together, we can transform how end-of-life care is delivered, making it more personalized, effective, and aligned with patient values. #PalliativeCareandTreatmentNationalDayofAwareness #PalliativeCare #EndOfLifeCare #ImplementationScience #Oncology Saritte Perlman Aviad Raz Raphael Catane Tamar Freud Moriah Ellen

🌍 World AIDS Day 2024: Bridging Gaps Through Implementation Science 🌍 On this World AIDS Day, we reflect on the strides made in the fight against HIV/AIDS and also recognize the work still needed to close the gap between evidence and practice. A recent article in the Annual Review of Psychology highlights the critical role of behavioral science and psychology in advancing HIV prevention and care. It underscores how implementation science bridges the gap between research and real-world application, ensuring evidence-based interventions reach the communities that need them most. Key insights include: ➡️ Leveraging behavioral interventions to improve adherence to HIV prevention and treatment strategies. ➡️ Addressing structural barriers like stigma and inequity to create more inclusive healthcare systems. ➡️ Using frameworks like implementation science to tailor interventions to diverse cultural and community needs. As we aim to end the HIV epidemic, it’s clear that science alone is not enough. Implementation science ensures that the breakthroughs in labs and journals translate into meaningful outcomes in clinics and communities worldwide. Today, let’s commit to action: advancing equity, dismantling stigma, and scaling up evidence-based solutions. How can we use implementation science to achieve universal HIV care? Let’s share ideas. 🧡 #WorldAIDSDay #ImplementationScience #HIVPrevention #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/djwepNga Brian Mustanski Artur Queiroz James Merle alithia zamantakis, Ph.D. Juan Pablo Zapata, PhD Dennis H. Li Nanette Benbow Maria Pyra Justin D. Smith

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we must confront the atrocities committed, the systemic failures that allowed them, and the resilience of those who fight for justice. On October 7, Hamas perpetrated horrific acts of terror, abducting over 250 individuals, including women, men, children, infants, and the elderly. Women were subjected to unspeakable gender-based violence, including rape and abuse, weaponized as tools of war. Today, 13 women remain hostages, while many others did not survive, murdered in cold blood or while being held captive in tunnels underground. These crimes are not only acts of violence but stark reminders of the systemic failures in implementing international protections like the Geneva Conventions, which mandate Red Cross access to hostages. At the The Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP) conference, Dr. Ayelet Levy Shachar, mother of Naama Levy, currently held hostage in Gaza, spoke with compassion and perseverance during unimaginable hardship. Her words challenge us to confront violence against women everywhere and to honor the resilience of survivors by demanding justice and change. Implementation science teaches us that frameworks and policies are only as effective as their application. The failure to operationalize established protections in this crisis reveals critical gaps between policy and practice. We call on the international community to: ❗ Ensure immediate Red Cross access to all hostages still held captive. ❗Enforce existing policies to protect hostages and hold perpetrators accountable. ❗Review systemic failures and develop actionable solutions to prevent future crises. Violence against women is not just a societal issue, it reflects a systemic failure of policy execution. Implementation science provides the tools to bridge this gap. Let today be a call to action, ensuring that policies are not just words but meaningful safeguards for those most at risk. #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #NoExcuse #RapeIsNotResistance #ImplementationScience #InternationalDayfortheEliminationofViolenceAgainstWomen Bring Them Home Now

🌍 We conclude World AMR Awareness Week 2024 by highlighting a series of findings from a cross-national research project that employed the OPEN Stewardship platform to address antimicrobial resistance #AMR. This important work, involving IS-PEC Founder and Chair, Moriah Ellen, alongside other leading researchers, utilized a One Health approach to connect human and veterinary medicine. The studies explored: ✔️ Veterinary practices in Canada and Israel, where personalized feedback led to reduced antibiotic use in animals. ✔️ Primary care settings, demonstrating how targeted interventions improved antibiotic prescribing and reduced overuse. ✔️ A cross-European analysis, uncovering key gaps and opportunities to enhance antibiotic stewardship. This research showcases the power of #ImplementationScience to develop actionable, scalable strategies addressing AMR at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health. 🔗 Dive into the findings: https://lnkd.in/d5ZJMDWr https://lnkd.in/dMMusGPd https://lnkd.in/dhsAyiui https://lnkd.in/dp_nujDM https://lnkd.in/dt4pBBRy https://lnkd.in/dgvRWTbk #WorldAMRWeek #WAAW24 #OneHealth #AntibioticStewardship #ImplementationScience #AMR Stay tuned and follow us to explore how international health agendas and awareness days can be advanced through implementation science and the latest research-driven strategies. Adar Cohen Amir Steinman Anette Hulth Amy Greer David Fisman Derek MacFadden Emily Cohn Gabrielle Brankston Gary Garber Jacob Moran-Gilad Janine McCready Jean-Paul R. Soucy John S. Brownstein Kamal Acharya Kevin Brown Marcelo Low, PhD. Matthew Orava Nadav Davidovitch Rachel Chorney Sonja Löfmark Tamar Amar William Watson

🌍 World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (Nov 18–24): 🌍 #WAAW2024 #AMR #AntimicrobialAwareness #ImplementationScience

🌍 World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (Nov 18–24): 🌍 A global spotlight on one of the most critical public health challenges of our time: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is a progressive, silent pandemic with devastating health and economic consequences. By 2050, it could cause 10 million deaths annually, disproportionately impacting LMICs, and drive an additional 28 million people into severe poverty. Without effective antimicrobials, healthcare as we know it, surgeries, cancer therapies, transplants, would be severely compromised. Implementation science provides a framework to combat AMR through: 💊 Defining challenges with stakeholders across One Health domains. 💊 Designing strategies that address enablers and barriers to action. 💊 Testing interventions through pragmatic trials and participatory research to ensure sustainability and scale-up. Effective AMR mitigation requires integrating #ImpSci with targeted efforts to build capacity, improve surveillance, and engage communities. Let’s work together to transform this knowledge into action! 👉 https://lnkd.in/dP4muvPw #WAAW2024 #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #OneHealth #HealthForAll #ImplementationScience #GlobalHealth The International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) Mark Khurana Sabiha Essack Robert Skov

Exciting new insights from "Challenges and Prospects for Evidence-Informed Policy in Criminology" by Blomberg, Copp, & Turanovic in "Annual Review of Criminology". This article highlights a critical issue: despite vast research in criminology, a gap remains between evidence and policy. 🧩 How can #ImplementationScience help? Implementation science offers a framework to systematically analyze and address factors that either facilitate or hinder policy adoption. By assessing organizational readiness, context, and stakeholder engagement, IS ensures research findings translate into actionable policy changes. 💼 Bridging Research and Policy In criminology, IS can help identify: - Structural Barriers: Analyzing obstacles in policy environments that delay evidence adoption. - Sustainable Strategies: Applying proven IS models to build frameworks that policymakers can reliably use. - Stakeholder Collaboration: Engaging criminal justice practitioners early on ensures policies are feasible and aligned with real-world needs. As criminologists seek to drive systemic change, IS offers the rigorous, evidence-informed pathways needed to close the research-policy gap. Let’s move from theory to practice! #Criminology #EvidenceInformedPolicy #Research2Policy #AnnualReviewCriminology #ImpSci #implementationScience #Evidence https://lnkd.in/dB4reJBn