TABLE 1.

Major gap areas

Training opportunities	Undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels
	Early stage investigators
	Established investigators
Research career development	Tenure-track faculty and promotion
	Academic faculty appointment
Institutional capacity for implementation research	Research infrastructure
	Critical mass of multidisciplinary expertise
	Mentorship
Critical skills for implementation research	Stakeholder engagement
	Biostatistics and analytics
	Adaptive trial design
	Data management and security
	Systems analytics
	Resilience analytics
	Research ethics
Research funding opportunities	Funding agency-solicited research
	Investigator-initiated research
	Challenge grants
Applied implementation research	Health policy
	Sustainability
	Scale-up
	Context analysis
	Health economics
	Informatics