Dissemination

Machine learning

Variety (cybernetics)

World Wide Web

Business

Paleontology

Leverage (statistics)

Artificial intelligence

Political science

Ecology

Process management

Stakeholder

Citizen journalism

Context (archaeology)

Information Dissemination

Stakeholder engagement

Public relations

Computer science

Schema (genetic algorithms)

Knowledge management

Sustainability

Telecommunications

Biology

Annual Review of Public Health

Designing for dissemination and sustainability (D4DS) refers to principles and methods for enhancing the fit between a health program, policy, or practice and the context in which it is intended to be adopted. In this article we first summarize the historical context of D4DS and justify the need to shift traditional health research and dissemination practices. We present a diverse literature according to a D4DS organizing schema and describe a variety of dissemination products, design processes and outcomes, and approaches to messaging, packaging, and distribution. D4DS design processes include stakeholder engagement, participatory codesign, and context and situation analysis, and leverage methods and frameworks from dissemination and implementation science, marketing and business, communications and visualarts, and systems science. Finally, we present eight recommendations to adopt a D4DS paradigm, reflecting shifts in ways of thinking, skills and approaches, and infrastructure and systems for training and evaluation.

Designing for Dissemination and Sustainability to Promote Equitable Impacts on Health