Implementation Science and Research Practice, Certificate

Program Overview

The Johns Hopkins University Implementation Science Certificate Program empowers professionals to translate research findings into healthcare practice, enhancing service quality and effectiveness. The program offers three tracks: Implementation Strategies, Policy & Translation, and Methods & Study Design, providing specialized knowledge and skills in these areas. Graduates are equipped to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based programs and policies, ultimately improving public health outcomes.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Implementation Science is the study of methods to promote the adoption, integration, and sustainment of evidence-based practices, interventions or policies into practice. The program is designed for full-time students and part-time working professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge about implementation science and develop related skills. Graduates will be able to translate research findings into routine practice and evidence-based practices to improve the quality and effectiveness of healthcare services and will have a greater appreciation of how to conduct implementation science-based research. Candidates interested in pursuing expertise in implementation science research or public health practitioners and implementers interested in integrating research into their practice or partnering with researchers to design studies are likely to benefit from this certificate program.

Educational Objectives:

• Identify the relevant nomenclature and disciplines that contribute to implementation research and practice to develop future implementation projects.
• Apply key implementation science constructs and theories to public health problems.
• Identify a range of methods, study designs and evaluation approaches that can be used to answer implementation science questions.
• Evaluate the relevance of study designs used for efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation research.

Track-Specific Objectives:

Implementation Strategies Track:

• Identify key hallmarks of implementation strategy specification and apply these across different contexts.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to measure outcomes of implementation strategies.

Policy & Translation Track:

• Describe the elements that make a health project or policy effective and critique designs and materials used by actual health interventions.
• Discuss the steps involved in developing, implementing and evaluating health policies or guidelines.
• Identify the roles public health research can play in informing program and policy decisions and ways to make research more applicable.

Methods & Study Design Track:

• Identify and document key objectives and answerable evaluation research questions that meet key stakeholders’ needs and are appropriate for program and setting.
• Propose a technically-sound design for evaluating the impact of program, focusing on key evaluation questions.

Assessment:

• All required and elective courses must be taken for a letter grade; a minimum grade of C is required in all certificate coursework, and students must maintain a 2.75 or better overall GPA for all certificate coursework.

Other:

• The program may be completed entirely online.
However, for non-JHU degree-seeking students, the program must be completed within three years.
• The student's transcript will not indicate that the certificate was earned until the Notification of Completion has been submitted, verified by the certificate program, and processed by the Registrar.
• Students should check the Bloomberg School course directory to confirm in which term and modality the courses are offered.
Students should also check for prerequisites and whether instructor consent is required.