About
The UCLA Rapid, Rigorous, Relevant (3R) Implementation Science Hub provides leadership and support for HIV-related implementation research emphasizing pragmatic study designs and methods that address health equity and produce sustainable solutions. As of August 2025, the Hub is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R24AI191868-01A1).
Hub Goal
The unique goal of the UCLA 3R IS Hub is to provide leadership and support for 3R HIV-related implementation research emphasizing pragmatic study designs and methods that address fairness in health and produce sustainable solutions.
Core Activities
- Provide expert, tailored consultation, coaching, and technical assistance for EHE implementation research grantees.
- Facilitate cross-grantee collaboration to promote knowledge-sharing and opportunities for partnership to enhance our collective EHE implementation research efforts.
- Offer high-quality training and educational opportunities to build capacity in HIV-related implementation science among grantees and the broader EHE community, with a focus on cutting-edge 3R content, methods, strategies, models, theories, and frameworks.
- Promote acceleration of HIV research impacts by collaborating with the HIV Implementation Science Coordination Initiative (ISCI), the other funded hubs, and IS consortia, and by identifying resources and opportunities for advancing evidence-based interventions through the implementation pipeline.
- Participate in cross-hub, multisite implementation research and evaluation projects.
- Support locally driven solutions to implementation challenges through integrating improvement science into our implementation science capacity-building efforts.
Our multidisciplinary UCLA 3R IS Hub team has diverse expertise to support high-impact HIV implementation science activities.
Faculty and Leadership
Alison Hamilton, PhD, MPH
Principal Investigator
Alison Hamilton, PhD, MPH, is a Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Chief Officer of Implementation and Policy at the VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation.
Moira Inkelas, PhD, MPH
Co-Investigator
Moira Inkelas, PhD, MPH is professor in the UCLA Department of Health Policy and Management and has expertise in designing and implementing improvement science research.
Uyen Kao, MPH
Co-Investigator
Uyen Kao, MPH, is the Executive Director for CHIPTS, providing scientific and programmatic leadership and support for CHIPTS and its funded projects.
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Anna Lau, PhD
Co-Investigator
Anna Lau, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies at UCLA Department of Psychology.
Sung-Jae Lee, PhD, MPH
Co-Investigator
Sung-Jae Lee, PhD, MPH, is Director of the CHIPTS Methods Core and a Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Chunqing Lin, PhD
Co-Investigator
Chunqing Lin, PhD, is Associate Director of the CHIPTS Methods Core and Associate Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Tamra Loeb, PhD
Co-Investigator
Tamra Loeb, PhD, is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
Enrique Sanchez, MPH
Project Assistant
Enrique Sanchez, MPH, serves as the CHIPTS Core Coordinator and supports the UCLA 3R IS Hub as a Project Assistant.
Expert Consultants
Prajakta Adsul, MBBS, PhD
Expert IS Consultant
Prajakta Adsul, MBBS, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico and Director of the Center for Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Science (CADIS) at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
Ana Baumann, PhD, MA
Expert IS Consultant
Ana Baumann, PhD, MA, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and faculty in the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.
Matt Chinman, PhD
Expert IS Consultant
Matthew Chinman, PhD, is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND and Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Core in the VA HSR&D Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.
Erin Finley, PhD, MPH
Expert IS Consultant
Erin Finley, PhD, MPH, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Consultation Core in the Center for Research to Advance Community Health, at UT Health San Antonio.
Russ Glasgow, PhD
Expert IS Consultant
Russ Glasgow, PhD, is Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Program of the Adult & Child Center for Outcomes Research & Delivery Science (ACCORDS) and Research Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Michelle S. Wong, PhD
Expert IS Consultant
Michelle S. Wong, PhD, is a Health Science Specialist at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System’s Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy (CSHIIP).
Visit the UCLA 3R IS Hub YouTube playlist to view recordings of past learning opportunities, including IS Methods Workshops and Beachside Chats with expert implementation scientists.
Publications
- Ogunbajo, A., Martinez, O., Akiyama, M., Dombrowski, J. C., Creasy, S., French, A., Jones-Vanderleest, J., Henry, C., Hickson, D., & Rosenberg-Carlson, E. (2025). Implementation Science Approaches to Addressing the Social and Structural Determinants of Health of Criminal-Legal Involved People Living with HIV to Improve HIV Care Outcomes. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 98(5), e118-e123.
- Schwartz, S., Benbow, N., Brewer, R. A., Beres, L. K., Humphries, D. L., Elopre, L. E., Lee, S. J., Karris, M. Y., Rosen, J. G., Kassanits, J., Rana, A., Blumenthal, J., Jones, J. L., Gaines Lanzi, R., Kao, U., Valeriano, T., Hamilton, A., Mustanski, B., & Vermund, S. H. (2025). Generating Evidence for Effective HIV Implementation at Scale: The Value and Feasibility of a Network for Implementation Science in HIV. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (2025), 98(5S), e59–e67.
- Jones, J. L., Schwartz, S., Kassanits, J. E., Pyra, M., Brewer, R. A., Kao, U., Blumenthal, J., Rana, A. I., Valeriano, T., Benbow, N. D., & NISH 001 Study Team (2025). Rapid ART, Rapid PrEP, and Status Neutral Implementation in Ryan White-Funded Clinics: Results From a Multisite Survey. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (2025), 98(5S), e136–e145.
- Katomski, A. S., Pachicano, A. M., Zamantakis, A., Benbow, N. D., Willging, C., Rosen, J. G., Rosenberg-Carlson, E. P., Gomez, W., Hamilton, A. B., Kassanits, J. E., Lanzi, R. G., Jones, J. L., Valeriano, T., Brewer, R. A., Rana, A. I., Kao, U., Karris, M., Blumenthal, J., Schwartz, S. R., & Beres, L. K. (2025). Policymaker Perspectives on Implementation Determinants of Rapid ART and Same-Day PrEP in Seven Priority Jurisdictions for Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Multisite Qualitative Study. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (2025), 98(5S), e192–e204.
- Humphries, D. L., Audet, C. M., Balasubramanian, B. A., Benbow, N., Kemp, C. G., Lanzi, R. G., Lee, S. J., Mestel, H., Morshed, A. B., Mustanski, B., Pettit, A., Rabin, B. A., Sadler, O., Hamilton, A. B., Millett, M. E., Schwartz, S., Sherr, K., Stadnick, N. A., & Li, D. H. (2025). Building the Road to End the HIV Epidemic Through Coordinating and Capacity-Building Hubs to Enhance the Science of HIV Implementation REsearch (CHESHIRE): Reflections and Directions. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (2025), 98(5S), e17–e27.
- Rosenberg-Carlson, E. P., Loeb, T. B., Hernandez, R. G., Lee, J. L., Ahonkhai, A. A., Perkins, J. M., Lin, C., Lee, S. J., Hurt, S., Johnsen, L., & Hamilton, A. B. Implementing Social Media Strategies in Community-Partnered HIV Research: Practical Considerations From 3 Ongoing Studies. JMIR Public Health Surveill (forthcoming).
Past Sessions
- Methods Workshop – Roll-out implementation optimization in Practice: Methodological Considerations and Case Examples (View Recording)
- Beachside Chat – The power and pitfalls of social media strategies: Lessons learned from implementation science efforts to end the HIV epidemic (View Recording)
- Beachside Chat – Engaging community in implementation: State of the science and practice (View Recording)
- Beachside Chat – Equity-Grounded Implementation Science (View Recording)
- Methods Workshop – Saturation in Qualitative Methods: Considerations for Implementation Research (View Recording)
Access the UCLA 3R IS Hub YouTube Playlist with all past sessions.
External Resources
- HIV Implementation Science Coordination Initiative (ISCI) – Implementation Strategies: Best Practices Tool (Visit Website)
- University of Washington – Introduction to Implementation Science (Visit Website)
- King’s College London Centre for Implementation Science – Instrument repository for measuring implementation outcomes (View Website)
- Dissemination and Implementation Science Models in Health Webtool – An interactive tool to help you use D&I models (Visit Website)
- NIH Fogarty Center – Implementation Science Toolkit for Researchers (Visit Website)
- US Department of Veterans Affairs – Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) (Visit Website)
- Toolkit: Resources for Implementation Science Researchers – Fogarty International Center (Visit Website)
Contact
If you have any questions or would like to join the email listserv for the UCLA 3R IS Hub, please contact ucla3rhub@mednet.ucla.edu.
Since its inception in 2020, the Hub was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health through a supplemental award to CHIPTS (P30MH058107); supplemental award numbers include P30MH058107-27S2 (2023), -26S4 (2022), -25S2 (2021), and -24S2 (2020).