About the Stanford Center for Dissemination and Implementation

Everyone deserves access to the best health care. The Stanford Center for Dissemination and Implementation (CDI) is a national leader in implementation science making that possible. 

There is significant variation in access to and quality of health care across the United States. Implementation science ensures discoveries lead to real-world impact for everyone by moving proven innovations beyond the lab and into practice. Through rigorous, systematic methods, it improves access to and delivery of high-quality health care by overcoming the obstacles that prevent efficient and sustainable adoption of proven innovations.

Stanford CDI is driving progress by improving the quality of implementation science and research to ensure patients receive the best and most effective health care.

Stanford CDI is a multi-disciplinary team based at Stanford University School of Medicine spanning geographic and institutional boundaries. The Stanford CDI team unifies a national network of partners and collaborators in implementation science and health care systems. For a complete list of staff, visit Who We Are.

Stanford CDI is the organizational hub of three national centers focused on applying rigorous methods to solve real-world problems in health care by addressing obstacles that prevent the efficient and sustainable adoption of proven health care innovations.

1. Center for Dissemination & Implementation At Stanford (C-DIAS)
2. Research Adoption Support Center (RASC)
3. Center for Mental Health Implementation Support (CMHIS)

Newer, evidence-based methods from implementation science are more precise, efficient, and effective at accelerating the adoption of proven innovations in practice. Stanford CDI applies the best of implementation science to close gaps in health care access and quality nationwide. Its centers advance innovative research to improve care and build capacity through training, mentoring, and consultation. By coordinating with leading experts in the field, Stanford CDI provides national resources and support to help ensure everyone has access to the highest-quality care.

Stanford CDI is at the forefront of implementation research and practice and leads high-impact projects. Click here to view publications and implementation tools and learn more about the following current and completed projects:

1. Stagewise-Implementation-To-Target (SITT-MAT)

2. Addiction Treatment Starts Here (ATSH)

3. Addressing Methamphetamine Use Disorders in Primary Care

4. Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care (IBHPC)

Stanford CDI sponsors, facilitates, and engages in networks focused on building high-performance implementation collaborations nationally and regionally at Stanford. Click here to learn more about the following networks:

1. NIDA Clinical Trials Network Translation & Implementation Special Interest Group

2. NIDA Clinical Trials Network Western States Node Translation & Implementation Workgroup

3. Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Center for Innovation to Implementation (Ci2i)

4. Stanford University Network for Dissemination & Implementation Research (SUNDIR)

5. Stanford Medicine Center for Improvement (SMCI)