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IMPLEMENTATION & SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATE

Sponsored by the Institute for Translational Medicine and the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute, with faculty from Loyola University Chicago and the University of Colorado.

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.

The 2025-26 program will be offered at no cost thanks to support from the Institute for Translational Medicine.

Why Join?

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

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

 
  Fall Sprint – 9/5/25 thru 10/24/25 Winter Sprint – 1/30/25 thru 3/20/26 Summer Sprint – 5/8/26 thru 6/26/26
F2C* Phase Conceptualization + Design Dissemination Impact
F2C* Objectives [from regular F2C framework graphic] [from regular F2C framework graphic] [from regular F2C framework graphic]
Key Question How does this innovation meet the demand for a solution to a problem in an evidence-based way? What messaging, packaging, and distribution channels will best motivate the key stakeholders for this innovation? How will this innovation be evaluated, sustained and adapted over time?
Key Methods**
  • Customer discovery
  • Value proposition design
  • Ecosystem/process mapping
  • User-centered design
  • Competitive landscape analysis
  • Force field analysis
  • Communication strategies
  • Implementation strategies
  • Evaluation frameworks
  • Adaptation frameworks
  • ustainability frameworks
  • Business model development
F2C* Outcomes [from regular F2C framework graphic] [from regular F2C framework graphic] [from regular F2C framework graphic]
  *Adapted from: [F2C preferred citation]
**The learning activities covered in this certificate program are typically considered non-Human Subjects Research, and at most institutions will not require IRB approval. If IRB review is needed (or desired due to planned publication), program faculty can help participants navigate submission of these activities, either as exempt or as program evaluation/quality improvement.

FREE Hands-on Learning & Mentorship

A high-value opportunity to advance your work, currently offered at no cost thanks to support from the Institute for Translational Medicine.

Who Should Apply?

  • Clinical and translational researchers
  • Dissemination and implementation scientists
  • Health services and public health researchers
  • Program evaluators and quality improvement specialists
  • Public health practitioners
  • Healthcare system executives and strategic decision-makers

Program Faculty

Program Faculty
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image file size should be less than 500KB		 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.
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image file size should be less than 500KB		 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.
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image file size should be less than 500KB		 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.

Information Sessions

Contact Us

Questions?

Contact Nallely Mora at namora@luc.edu

Apply Now

Apply Now

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

More Information

Informed By:

  • Kwan, et al Annual Review in Public Health (2022), Concannon, et al in J General.
  • Internal Medicine, and Wasko, et al in Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (2024).
  • Osterwalder A, Pigneur Y, Bernarda G, Smith A. Value proposition design: how to create products and services customers want. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons; 2014.

Funded by NIH grant no. 2UL1TR002389.