What is the Implementation Café?
The Implementation Café is a dedicated resource hub for implementation science, created to help health researchers, practitioners, and related professionals strengthen the way they design, plan, and deliver health interventions. It brings together practical tools, evidence‑based knowledge, and a supportive community to improve the real‑world impact of health research and ultimately contribute to better health outcomes across the community. WAHTN has partnered with the Café to further bring implementation science to WA health professionals. You can read more about our partnership here.
Core Aims
- Build capacity in implementation science
Strengthen the skills, knowledge, and confidence of health and research professionals in Western Australia (WA) so they can effectively apply implementation science in their work.
- Share implementation knowledge
Create opportunities for professionals to exchange insights, challenges, and practical solutions related to implementing evidence‑based practices.
- Enhance networking opportunities
Grow a connected community of practice where researchers and practitioners collaborate, learn from one another, and build long‑term professional relationships.
Lunch & Learn Sessions (formerly Journal Club)
The Lunch & Learn presentations help participants deepen their understanding of key implementation science concepts and literature. These sessions are ideal for anyone looking to expand their practical and theoretical knowledge. You can find the registration for sessions below, as well as past webinars.
- 17 February, Midday AWST Grant Writing with an Implementation Focus, with Dr Belinda McLean. Register here.
She will discuss practical strategies, lessons learned, and key considerations for crafting competitive proposals that bridge evidence and real‑world impact.
- 24 March, Midday AWST Planning for Fidelity and Adaptation, with Associate Professor of Implementation Science, Stephanie Best. Register here.
Balancing fidelity with adaptation is critical to meet local community needs within available resources. Before adapting an intervention, we need to identify the ‘core components’. However, how to do this is not clear. We developed a ‘plug in’, to be used alongside existing fidelity models, through a series of workshops with consumers, clinicians and implementation researchers. Core-FAST (Fidelity and Adaptation for Scaling up Tool) aims to facilitate identification of core components when scaling up. In this session we will discuss fidelity and adaptation, generating the Core-FAST plug in and next steps.
- 14 April, 9am AWST Realist Approaches for Implementation Science, with Dr Junqiang Zhao from the University of Rochester, USA. Register here.
Join us to discuss implementation science through a behavioral science and complexity system lens. Dr Zhao’s methodological expertise includes realist approaches, mixed methods, systematic reviews and his current research interests include cancer screening, prehabilitation and implementation science theories and methodologies.