健康实施科学是一个新兴领域，位于临床转化连续体的末端-专注于对从业者和决策者及其主要医学和健康发现中的¢吸收的科学询问对个人和社区福祉的影响。这个领域得到了美国国立卫生研究院，医学研究所和国家研究委员会的大力支持，它的出现是为了帮助确保基础科学和临床研究方面的投资和进展产生充分的影响。该重点领域的学生将学习各种专业领域的基本术语和方法-包括健康素养，信息传播，卫生系统研究，公共卫生，基于社区的参与性研究，卫生经济学和卫生差距研究“并明确地将它们连接起来以进行实施科学。学生将了解从发现有效的治疗方法或预防性
Public Health Implementation Science is an emerging field strongly endorsed by the National Institutes of Health, The Institute of Medicine, and The National Research Council. It is located at far end of the clinical translational continuum -- focused on scientific inquiry about the uptake of major medical and health discoveries by practitioners and policymakers and their impact on the well-being of individuals and communities. Historically, the lag time from discovery of a major efficacious treatment to its actual clinical implementation has been estimated as 17 years, and many highly efficacious, affordable treatments are being implemented improperly, incompletely, and/or inequitably, thus failing to realize the benefits anticipated. Above all, there is grave concern that the mega-investments in basic science and clinical research are not yielding their full impact. In a now-seminal New England Journal of Medicine article, Zerhouni (2005), then Director of the National Institutes of Health, called for corrective action by creating a new, vital, and reinforced academic discipline and home for translational and clinical science along with an explicit effort to maximize the effectiveness of NIH resources directed to this area of research to ensure that extraordinary scientific advances of the past decade will be rapidly captured, translated, and disseminated for the benefit of all Americans.