The list below includes readings on the translation of health research into practice. These works can be used to help you identify, define, or refine the area(s) of community engagement for which you may seek consultation. If you have suggestions of "research to practice" readings that should be included in this list, please email us at cecs@duke.edu.

Community Based Participatory Research

• Achieving the Promise of Authentic Community-Higher Education Partnerships: Community Partners Speak Out! (2007). Seattle, WA: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.
• Calleson DC, Jordan C, Seifer SD. (2005). Community-engaged scholarship: Is faculty work in communities a true academic enterprise? Academic Medicine; 80 317-321.
• Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. (2005). Linking Scholarship and Communities: Report of the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions. Seattle, WA: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health.
• Grignon J, Wong KA, Seifer SD. (2008). Ensuring Community-Level Research Protections. Proceedings of the 2007 Educational Conference Call Series on Institutional Review Boards and Ethical Issues in Research. Seattle, WA: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
• Seifer SD, Calleson DC. (2004). Faculty perspectives on community-based research in academic health centers: Implications for policy and practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care.18(4): 63-74.
• Shore N, Wong K, Seifer SD, Grignon J, Gamble VN. (2008). Advancing the Ethics of Community-Based Participatory Research. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 3(2), 1-4.
• Viswanathan, M. Community-based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence. (2004).

Design and reporting of interventions: translation to practice

• Leeman J, Baernholdt M, Sandelowski M. (2007). Developing a Theory-Based taxonomy of methods for implementing change in practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 58, 191-200.
• Leeman J, Jackson B, & Sandelowski M. (2006). An evaluation of how well research reports support the use of findings in practice. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 38, 171-177.
• Leeman J. (2006). Interventions to improve diabetes self-management: Utility and relevance for practice. The Diabetes Educator. 32, 571-583.

Healthcare systems approach to change provider practices/quality improvement/implementation strategies

• Dougherty D, Conway PH. The "3T's" Road Map to Transform US Health Care: The "How" of High-Quality Care. JAMA 299.19 (2008):2319.
• Glasgow, RE, Lichtenstein E, Marcus A. Why don’t we see more translation of health promotion research to practice? Rethinking the efficacy-to-effectiveness transition. American Journal of Public Health 2003;93(8):1261-1267.
• Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Macfarlane F, Bate P, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of innovations in service organizations: Systematic review and recommendations. The Milbank Quarterly 2004;82(4):581-629.
• Grimshaw JM, McAuley LM, et al. (2003). "Systematic reviews of effectiveness of quality improvement strategies and programmes." Qual Saf Health Care 12: 298-303.
• Grimshaw JM, Shirran L, et al. (2001). "Changing provider behavior: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions." Med Care 39(8 Suppl 2): II2-45.
• Grimshaw JM, Thomas RE, et al. (2004). "Effectiveness and efficiency of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies." Health Technol Assess 8(6): iii-iv, 1-72.
• Khoury MJ, Gwinn M, Yoon PW, Dowling N, Moore CA, Bradley L. The continuum of translation research in genomic medicine: how can we accelerate the appropriate integration of human genome discoveries into health care and disease prevention? Genetics in Medicine Vol 9; 2007:665.
• Shojania KG, Ranji SR, et al. (2006). "Effects of quality improvement strategies for type 2 diabetes on glycemic control: a meta-regression analysis." Jama 296(4): 427-40.
• Shojania KG, Ranji SR, et al. (2004). Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical analysis of quality improvement strategies. K. G. Shojania, K. M. McDonald, R. M. Wachter and D. K. Owens. Rockville, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (online)
• Zerhouni EA. Translational and clinical science—Time for a new vision. Vol 353; 2005:1621-1623

Getting community and practitioner input into the dissemination process

• Myers, B. A. (2003). "Getting people to want sliced bread - an update on dissemination of the guide to community prevention services." Journal of Public Health Management Practice 9(6): 545-551.
• Westfall JM, Mold J, Fagnan L. Practice-Based Research--" Blue Highways" on the NIH Roadmap. Vol 297: JAMA; 2007:403

Implementing Evidence-based practice

• Brownson RC, Baker EA, Leet TL, Gillespie KN. Evidence-Based Public Heath. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Brownson RC, Gurney JG, Land GH. Evidence-based decision making in public health. Journal of Public Health Management Practice 1999;5(5):86-97.
• Fielding, J. E. and P. A. Briss (2006). "Promoting evidence-based public health policy: can we have better evidence and more action?" Health Aff (Millwood) 25(4): 969-78.
• Glasgow RE. What types of evidence are most needed to advance behavioral medicine? Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2008; 35:19-25
• Woolf SH. The Meaning of Translational Research and Why It Matters. Vol 299: JAMA; 2008:211.

* Compilation of many of the readings in this list is based on the efforts of Drs. Sandra L. Martin (UNC School of Public Health) and Lloyd Michener (Duke University Medical Center).