Designing for Implementation & Sustainability Certificate​

Transform Innovation Into Impact​

This immersive, hands-on bootcamp-style certificate program is designed for health science researchers and healthcare/public health professionals looking to accelerate the impact of their work. Learn key strategies to successfully implement and sustain innovations in real-world settings. Designed in an executive education format, this program combines academic rigor with real-world application.

Translational Science Approach​

This tailored mentored learning program will be offered at no cost, thanks to support from the Institute for Translational Medicine.

Target Audience & Benefits

Walk away with key data to advance your projects.

For clinical, translational and public health researchers…

  • Workshop Your Innovations – Get expert mentorship to refine your ideas for maximum impact.
  • Gain Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives – Ensure broader adoption and sustainability of your research, and develop expertise in understanding local contexts.
  • Accelerate Translation of Your Ideas – Identify actionable strategies to improve your innovation’s impact and sustainability in real-world settings, generate preliminary data to use in grant applications, and plan for post-grant sustainment.
  • Build Your Career – develop in-demand practical expertise in dissemination, implementation and sustainability to bring to your research and collaborations.

For public health and healthcare professionals…

  • Discover Your Organizational Context – Understand the needs of key players in your organization to enhance adoption and sustainability of evidence-based practices.
  • Develop a Strategic Implementation Plan – Move beyond theory with a results-driven roadmap to help your organization effectively adopt high-value innovations.
  • Lead in Sustainable, Impactful Innovation – Ensure that your organization makes strategic, sustainable choices in implementing new practices and innovations.

Program Content

Engage in Three Sprints of 8 Weeks Each

A 12-month, flexible online learning with practical applications. Executive-style, interactive online sprints are tailored for busy professionals, with breaks in between.

Tailored, Mentored, Hands-on Learning & Mentorship

A high-value opportunity to advance your projects. 

Program Faculty

Elaine H. Morrato, DrPH MPH FISPE CPH, is professor and founding dean of the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health at Loyola University Chicago. Trained in epidemiology and board-certified in public health, her work focuses on accelerating the translation of evidence into practice with a particular focus on drug safety. Dr. Morrato remains active in the NIH Clinical & Translational Sciences Award (CSTA) program where she directs Loyola’s collaboration with the University of Chicago-Rush University Institute for Translational Medicine. She contributed to the national expansion of the NIH Innovation-Corps (I-Corps™) training program for ensuring problem-solution fit and the scale-up and sustainability of academic innovation.

Nallely Mora, MD MPH PMP, is an Associate Research Professor at Loyola University of Chicago in the Public Health Sciences Department. Her Public health practice-based research is focused on community-based participatory research and health equity, bringing implementation science and evaluation methods to design and adapt evidence-based interventions in diverse settings. She is the ITM CTSA, Loyola site Associate Director, where she co-directs its Community and Collaboration, and the Dissemination and Implementation science cores. Dr. Mora has participated and collaborated in the I-Corps™ training at Loyola University providing didactic resources and conducting the program evaluation.

Lindsay Lennox, MA, is an instructor at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine and teaches in its Dissemination & Implementation Science Graduate Certificate Program, as well as providing program management for the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) D&I Research Core. Their work focuses on bringing together approaches from technology transfer, dissemination/implementation science and the marketing and communications fields to effectively move evidence-based interventions into practice locally and nationally, and to create infrastructure for D&I and pragmatic research within the national clinical and translational science (CTS) ecosystem. They have expertise in community engagement, co-design, and designing for dissemination and sustainability, and have served as guest faculty for the I-Corps™ training program.

Questions?

Contact Nallely Mora, MD, MPH, PMP Research Associate Professor and Site Associate Director, Institute for Translational Medicine at namora@luc.edu.

Apply Now

Preference will be given to applicants who submit materials by July 1st.