CIDER is All About Connections!

Developing and delivering innovative and effective treatments is essential, particularly for individuals and communities that experience tremendous health inequity. Unfortunately, many life-saving interventions never leave the tightly controlled research lab, or they take many years to reach standard clinical practice. One challenge facing translational researchers is how to expand access and speed the delivery of research discoveries into diverse clinics and communities where they can reach the populations who need them the most.

The University of Kentucky CCTS is focused on promoting better health and healthcare by translating research interventions into broader clinical practice, community and population health, and policy change. This type of translational research involves the field of dissemination and implementation science (D&I), which explores multi-level contextual factors, barriers, and facilitators to determine the best methods for delivering evidence-based interventions across different cultures, contexts and populations.

To promote broader, clinically-connected translation of research interventions, the CCTS has developed the Center for Implementation, Dissemination, and Evidence-based Research (CIDER). This center supports research and researchers who are developing, adapting, and implementing evidence-based interventions in pragmatic scenarios while responding to local clinical and community needs. In short, CIDER exists to connect research to the real-world. 

Research On the Move

Translational research is all about moving research forward. The progression of translation involves testing whether interventions that were successful on a small scale in a controlled environment can be scaled up to a larger clinical population, such as those served by primary care practices, ambulatory care centers, and community clinics and settings. To expand access to evidence-based interventions, deployment and evaluation of dissemination and implementation strategies are critically important. Successful implementation will likely yield increased impacts on community and population health. 

CIDER is a hub that promotes research along this translational process. This center involves a community of researchers focused on developing, disseminating, and implementing evidence-based interventions, and within this community you’ll find resources to make your research more relevant to real-world settings.

How Can We Help?

We offer three main areas of assistance: