Stephen Dubner

One program Chamberlain founded is called Treatment Foster Care Oregon.

The success of Chamberlain's program caught the eye of researchers who were working on a program for a federal agency called the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

The success of Chamberlain's program caught the eye of researchers who were working on a program for a federal agency called the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

The success of Chamberlain's program caught the eye of researchers who were working on a program for a federal agency called the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

If the program was successful at one site, how hard could it be to make it work at 15?

If the program was successful at one site, how hard could it be to make it work at 15?

If the program was successful at one site, how hard could it be to make it work at 15?

Systemic complication.

Systemic complication.

Systemic complication.

Patty Chamberlain had run up against something that Dana Suskin had come to see as an inherent disconnect when you try to scale up a research finding.

Patty Chamberlain had run up against something that Dana Suskin had come to see as an inherent disconnect when you try to scale up a research finding.

Patty Chamberlain had run up against something that Dana Suskin had come to see as an inherent disconnect when you try to scale up a research finding.

If only there were another science, a science to help these scientific entrepreneurs and institutions come together to implement this new research. Maybe something that could be called...

If only there were another science, a science to help these scientific entrepreneurs and institutions come together to implement this new research. Maybe something that could be called...

If only there were another science, a science to help these scientific entrepreneurs and institutions come together to implement this new research. Maybe something that could be called...

Implementation science. Okay, let's define implementation science.

Implementation science. Okay, let's define implementation science.

Implementation science. Okay, let's define implementation science.

That is Lauren Suplee. When we spoke with her, Suplee was the deputy chief operating officer of a nonprofit called Child Trends, which promotes evidence-based policy to improve children's lives.