We are in the midst of strategic planning for the Implementation Science Center. Thank you to those of you who have provided feedback. For me, one of the questions I keep returning to during this process is a more basic question: What is a Center?

This past annual meeting in December, I attended one on mechanisms led by Cara Lewis, Byron Powell, and Brian Mittman. I have struggled with the turn towards mechanisms in implementation science. I know I need to do a deep dive into the area but have not yet had the opportunity to take that dive. The coffee chat was a great way to enter the conversation.

We were in the middle of our journal club, discussing the chapter “Historical Roots of Dissemination and Implementation Science” by Dearing, Kee, and Peng in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (Brownson, Colditz, and Proctor, eds) per a request to cover the historical development of implementation science. One of my colleagues who is newer to implementation science said, “It seems like implementation science is such an inclusive field where so many perspectives are welcome.”