Community engagement and implementation science: A hermeneutic review for implementation scientists

Authors

• Minh X Nguyen, Hanoi Medical University
• Zhuoheng Yin, UNC Project-China
• Ye Liu, UNC Project-China
• Cory D Bradley, Northwestern University
• Elvin Geng, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Mayuko ItoFukunaga, University of Massachusetts
• Nyanyiwe M Mbeye, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
• Rayner K J Tan, National University of Singapore
• Sherika Hanley, University of KwaZulu-Natal
• Radhika Sundararajan, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Joseph D Tucker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Journal

Implementation Science Communications

Publication Date

2-17-2026

Volume

7

Issue

1

First Page

54

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s43058-026-00886-2

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Nguyen, M.X., Yin, Z., Liu, Y. et al. Community engagement and implementation science: a hermeneutic review for implementation scientists. Implement Sci Commun 7, 54 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-026-00886-2 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Nguyen, Minh X; Yin, Zhuoheng; Liu, Ye; Bradley, Cory D; Geng, Elvin; ItoFukunaga, Mayuko; Mbeye, Nyanyiwe M; Tan, Rayner K J; Hanley, Sherika; Sundararajan, Radhika; and Tucker, Joseph D, "Community engagement and implementation science: A hermeneutic review for implementation scientists." Implementation Science Communications. 7, 1. 54 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7358

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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