Gregory Aarons, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, Co-Director of the UCSD Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (UCSD-DISC), and Director of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC). Dr Aarons is a clinical and organisational psychologist who focuses on improving behavioural health care in service systems in the US and internationally. His research focuses on identifying and improving system, organisational, and individual factors that support implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices and quality of care in health and allied health care settings. Dr Aarons’ implementation and scale-up strategies are being used and tested in behavioural health, schools, child welfare, HIV prevention, and trauma treatment in the US, Norway, and West Africa. His most recent work is in developing and fostering community-academic partnerships to increase the use of research evidence in policy and practice.

Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. She studied Medical, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford before training first as a diabetologist and later as an academic general practitioner. She has a doctorate in diabetes care and an MBA in Higher Education Management. She leads a programme of research at the interface between the social sciences and medicine, working across primary and secondary care.

Prof. Greenhalgh and colleagues developed the NASSS implementation framework for theorizing and evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of health and care technologies. The objective of this new framework is to produce an evidence-based, theory-informed, and pragmatic framework to help predict and evaluate the success of a technology-supported health or social care program.

Originally trained as a nurse, Gill is Matthew Flinders Professor of Health Services and Implementation Research in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. She is a Deputy Director (Knowledge Translation) of the College's Caring Futures Institute and is a Co-Director within Aged Care Research and Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA).

Gill is an Adjunct Professor of Implementation Science at AusHSI and has worked closely with fellow AusHSI Adjunct, Professor Alison Kitson, to develop, test, and refine the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) and integrated-PARIHS (i-PARIHS) frameworks. Gill works collaboratively with consumers and care providers to implement and evaluate new knowledge at clinical and system levels in health and aged care.

Dr Mitchell Sarkies is a Senior Lecturer, Sydney Horizon Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Sydney School of Health Sciences. Mitchell leads the Innovation and Methods Stream for the Sydney Health Partners Implementation Science Program and is a member of the Academic Implementation Science Network, which supports advancements in the science of implementation in health.

Dr Sarkies is a health services researcher and implementation scientist with a clinical background in physiotherapy. He leads multiple research translation projects to enhance evidence-informed models of care.

Joanna Moullin is an Associate Professor in the enAble Institute and School of Population Health at Curtin University. Joanna is a pharmacist by profession, and found her way into the field of implementation science after taking up research opportunities in Europe and America. Joanna’s work has focussed on implementation frameworks and measures, as well as implementation projects across a range of diverse disciples, interventions, and settings.

Two projects she is currently working on include the sustainment and improvement of a situational awareness dashboard in Western Australia’s Country Health Service and the scale-up and scale-out of a men’s physical activity intervention. She also has a particular interest in mental health, substance use treatment and equity with previous work in exploring, developing and implementing a medication means restriction intervention for suicide prevention and the implementation of Take-Home Naloxone, an evidence-based self-harm reduction intervention. Joanna's projects have all had consumer and community involvement to ensure they deliver the best quality of research.

A/Prof Nicole Rankin is an implementation scientist and Head, Evaluation and Implementation Science Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on using implementation science methods to accelerate the translation of evidence into practice and policy. A/Prof Rankin's specialist expertise is in lung cancer screening and early detection, building capacity in implementing science in Australia and globally.

Zephanie is a health services researcher and implementation scientist at AusHSI. She has a background as a clinical occupational therapist and has worked in research-related positions in hospital and health services as well as in universities. Zephanie is co-chair of the Child Health Special Interest Group with the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL), and a member of the patient engagement committees of ISOQOL and the Australian New Zealand Burn Association research committee.

Zephanie has expertise in developing and implementing patient-reported outcomes. She also designs and tests health interventions that support clinical decision making, communication, quality of life, and high value care. Using qualitative research and implementation science, she strives to better understand how interventions work in real world settings and the outcomes that are most meaningful to patients and clinicians.

Andrew is a research fellow with the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC). He is co-designing and co-developing potential electronic health (eHealth) solutions to offer an opportunity to challenge health disparities within Australia.

Andrew’s research seeks to explore novel approaches and/or solutions to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing using eHealth. His PhD (The University of Queensland, 2023) focussed on the co-design of a mobile health (mHealth) platform specifically tailored for the clinical management of CVD risk factors, in partnership with two ATSICCHOs in Far North QLD.

Andrew is a chief investigator on AusHSI's Powerful Pictures study, an ambitious project which seeks to partner with First Nations Australians to co-design a new, improved model of care to identify and manage heart disease in patients at risk of future heart attacks.

Associate Professor Ingrid Hickman is a Principal Research Fellow in Implementation Science with the UQ ULTRA team (Clinical Trial Capability) within the Centre for Clinical Research. Ingrid is an implementation scientist and has over 20 years experience in health services clinical research. Her career has focused on research excellence, strategic leadership and translating scientific evidence into improved clinical care for people with complex chronic conditions. From randomised controlled trials and mechanisms of disease progression through to patient centred co-design of health services, her collaborative approach to research aims to find solutions to health care problems.

Prior to taking up the role with the ULTRA team, A/Prof Hickman led the Metabolic Obesity Research Group and the Nutrition Research Program at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane for over 12 years. Within this role she has been a passionate advocate for embedding implementation science and methodologies into clinical trials and health services research and has been recognised internationally for her investment in implementation science and clinical workforce capacity building in research translation.

Katrina is Director of Innovation within Healthcare Excellence and Innovation (HEI), with a career spanning clinical practice, healthcare management, consultancy, research and academia. She is internationally recognised for her expertise nutrition management in chronic conditions, and a passion for driving and implementing evidence-based practice and policy.

Within Metro North, her commitment to translating evidence into practice and fostering frontline innovation is demonstrated through her leadership of HELIX - a Knowledge Translation, Improvement and Implementation hub. Her teams work in HEI is consistently informed by patient and clinician priorities to pave the way for meaningful change.

Dr Jenny Job is Research Director at The University of Queensland-Mater Research Institute’s Centre for Health System Reform and Integration. Jenny’s focus is the real-world delivery and implementation evaluation of health services to inform health care policy and practice, and health system reform. Jenny has a PhD in public health and has extensive experience in public hospitals, private settings and community sectors as an Accredited Practicing Dietitian. Using a co-creation methodology, Jenny and the Centre’s team work in partnership with General Practitioners, Western Queensland, North Queensland and Brisbane South Primary Health Networks, Health Workforce Queensland, the Mater Hospital and Queensland Health, with a focus on sustainability and access and equity for rural and remote populations.

Zena Martin is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Health Workforce Queensland. Health Workforce Queensland is a not for profit, non-Government Rural Workforce Agency (RWA) for primary health workforce in Queensland, focused on making sure remote, rural, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities have access to highly skilled health professionals when and where they need them, now and into the future. The agency have been responding to remote and rural health workforce challenges for 25 years by improving access to primary healthcare workforce and quality services to ensure sustainable and healthy remote and rural Queensland communities and engaging and collaborating with key remote and rural primary health care stakeholders to inform health policy and to enhance development of workforce solutions.

Donata is the Director of Mater Refugee and Multicultural Health Service and current Chair of the Refugee Health Partnership Advisory Group Qld. Over the past 17 years she has been based at Mater Hospital in Brisbane and, prior to the Mater, Donata held positions in various human service organisations including over a decade with QPASTT (Qld Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma). Trained as a social worker, Donata has an interest in community development approaches and co-designing health policy, service planning and health resources. In her current role, Donata has led the implementation of integrated models of care, innovative partnerships with communities and contributed to policy redesign to improve health outcomes for people from refugee, multicultural and asylum seeker backgrounds.

Samantha Keogh is a Joint Professor of Acute and Critical Care Nursing with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Australia. Samantha is also a senior researcher and group leader with QUT’s Centre for Healthcare Transformation. Her research interests are primarily centred on optimising patient safety and outcomes in acute and critical care through rigorous trial methodologies and effective implementation strategies. Samantha is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) and a member of several other speciality based colleges, societies and networks. This includes the Australasian Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Trials Network (ANMCTN): a network developed to support, mentor and accelerate growth in nursing and midwifery clinical trials capability and capacity across Australia.

Jed Duff is Chair of Nursing at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and QUT. In this role, he leads the development, testing, and implementation of strategies to improve the integration of evidence into clinical practice. His responsibilities also include designing and conducting multidisciplinary practice-based research and mentoring staff in evidence-based practice, practice improvement, and research methods. Jed describes himself as a ‘pracademic’—a researcher who collaborates with clinicians, decision-makers, and consumers to devise innovative and creative solutions for real-world healthcare challenges

Dr Sarah Johnstone is a Strategic Designer and Postdoctoral Fellow embedding Design in Health in a partnership between QUT Design Lab and the Healthcare Improvement Unit, Queensland Health. From a background in Interior Architecture, Sustainable Design, and Design Research, Sarah has moved into a career specialising in design thinking (and doing), co-design, and creative community engagement strategies on projects which focus on increasing wellbeing, enhancing inclusion & diversity, and tackling complex system challenges.

Dr Jeremy Kerr is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the School of Design and Program Leader for Design for Health in the QUT Design Lab. His research focus is the exploration and development of design and design methods to advance community capacity building and self-advocacy. Central to his work is applying co-design methodologies to foster collaboration and to include the authentic voice and creative input of stakeholders in solutions, with a specialisation in trauma-informed and healing-centred approaches. Jeremy has recently published his first book, 'The Art of Co-Design: A Guide to Creative Collaboration' (BIS Publishers), and is currently operating in a conjoint role at Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ), developing a co-design framework and strategy for use throughout its state-based services.

Rosemary is Ngarabul woman from NSW who has worked in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and welfare policy and program design across commonwealth government, private sector consulting and not-for-profit organisations for over a decade.

Rosemary is heavily invested in and committed to contributing to the achievement of better health and welfare outcomes for her people and is experienced in utilising different policy levers to advocate and influence policy change which will create real impact within her community. She currently specialises in guiding and supporting effective Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander codesign and engagement, program and policy design, implementation and evaluation.

As Senior Research Officer, Lowitja Consulting, Deb works to develop and deliver consulting services that enhance the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples focusing on the broad social and cultural determinants of health. She has over 20 years’ experience in applying cultural and medical anthropology to academic, not-for-profit, government, health, and community settings.

Deb has been privileged to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and in Aboriginal-led, multi-disciplinary teams in a range of research, knowledge translation, evaluation, teaching, policy, community development, and engagement roles. She is passionate about meaningful engagement and centring community voices, knowledges, and experience in research to address the research - policy- practice gaps.

Dr Bridget Abell is an implementation scientist and health services researcher with AusHSI. She works collaboratively with stakeholders, conducting clinical and implementation evaluations to improve the delivery of health services. She also teaches and mentors health service staff in implementation science methodology and is particularly interested in developing pragmatic ways for them to use this knowledge in their own practice.

Bridget is also a qualified exercise scientist whose research experience and interests span cancer care, physical activity, digital healthcare, mental health, child health, public health, refugee and migrant health, and emergency medicine.

Sunny is an Implementation Science Research Fellow and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), UNSW. His post-doctoral training in implementation science with the Cancer Council NSW specialised in behaviour change theory and practice. Sunny has spent over a decade coordinating, managing, developing, and leading complex multi-disciplinary multi-partner health services research projects across all areas of the health system.

Sunny’s research at AusHSI focuses on developing evidence-based implementation solutions using a complex system lens to improve service delivery and patient outcomes within the health system at large.

Leanne Sakzewski is an occupational therapist with over 35 years research and clinical experience working with children with disabilities. Her research interests are in developing and testing novel interventions to improve motor, participation and social outcomes for children with cerebral palsy. She has led large multi-site trials across Australia and New Zealand testing Hand Arm Bimanual Intensive Training Including Lower Extremity, and Participate-CP aimed to enable participation in physically active leisure for children with cerebral palsy. She is currently leading a new MRFF Consumer-Led project called CP-KASP (Cerebral palsy Knowledge, Advocacy and Support Package), which will co-design and test a program to help families of young children with cerebral palsy to navigate the NDIS and advocate for the best-evidence early intervention packages for their child.

Dr Fiona Russo is a highly engaged consumer advocate in the paediatric health and research space, working with Children’s Health Queensland at the strategic level to improve the delivery of services for children and young people with disability. Dr Russo is a founding member of Involve Australia, a group within Genomics Australia dedicated to the promotion of community involvement in health research. She is also the parent of a tween daughter with Rett Syndrome, a genetic neurological condition leading to functional impairment in all domains of life. In these roles and as Senior Fellow with the University of Southern Queensland’s Centre for Health Research and the University of Queensland’s Faculty of Medicine, Fiona is committed to improving outcomes for children with disability through research and person-centred service design and delivery.

Brittany Clark is a passionate communications and engagement specialist with extensive experience in public health communication. Her focus has been on co-designing effective communication solutions for diverse audiences, specifically people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and LGBTQI+ people and people with disability. Brittany works closely with various communities, policy areas, services and stakeholders to establish partnerships, and localise programs and services that champion the needs of these audiences.

Muan Hlui is originally from Myanmar and a passionate interpreter with years of experience in interpreting Chin Matu, Chin Mizo, and English. She holds a Bachelor of Biomedical Science and a Graduate Certificate in Public Health from Griffith University. She is enthusiastic about promoting health and engaging with multicultural communities, and currently serves as the General Secretary of the Matu Community of Queensland and works as the Multicultural Health Engagement Project Coordinator with Refugee Health Network Queensland.

Steve is an internationally renowned health systems innovator, health services researcher, health economist and clinician. He is Director of the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) and the Centre for Healthcare Transformation at QUT. Steve is passionate about empowering health services to deliver high-value patient-centred care, particularly improving care for vulnerable members of our community and their families. His major focus is working in partnerships within and across health services and government jurisdictions to help design, implement and evaluate effective models of care or system changes that improve patient care at low cost, or with cost savings.

Michelle is a mixed methods researcher, using implementation science to maximise the successful implementation of health services and initiatives. Her health sector experience spans public, private, and not-for-profit organisations in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Michelle has worked in management consulting and academia, as well as health service design, planning, commissioning, and evaluation roles.

Michelle has worked across local, state and national programs, including Category 1 research grants, to enhance population health, infection prevention, chronic disease, mental health, older persons health, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Michelle is particularly interested in working with systemically disempowered groups to elevate their voice in the design and delivery of health services.

Hannah is a health economist with a background in applied economics. She has worked across clinical trials and health services research projects spanning across a range of clinical areas including cancer, diabetes, end of life and paediatric conditions. She has expertise in cost-effectiveness analysis and economic modelling. In 2023, Hannah was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) investigator grant for a project that seeks high-value models of end-of-life care.

Hannah’s current research is focussed on embedding economic evaluation within health services research projects to help identify efficient and effective ways to improve patient experiences and outcomes when accessing health care. She is particularly interested in understanding the economics of implementation and the ways in which health systems can become better integrated across primary care and hospital-based systems.

Thomasina Donovan is a PhD candidate at AusHSI, QUT. In her PhD she used the knowledge from the fields of health economics and implementation science to develop a costing implementation strategies (Cost-IS) instrument. Cost-IS assists in data collection of the costs associated with implementation strategies for digital health innovations. Cost-IS provides a pragmatic and flexible approach that can be tailored to meet the needs of various projects. Cost-IS aims to enable implementation costing which is important to support appropriate resourcing of implementation efforts and address the knowledge gap in implementation science research. The Cost-IS instrument and its development can be found here.

Prior to her PhD, Thomasina worked in cellular and molecular biology, specifically epigenetics, in the fields of oncology, immunology and exercise science.

Kym is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Mater Mothers, South Brisbane and PhD candidate at AusHSI, QUT.

The focus of Kym’s implementation science PhD is addressing unwarranted clinical variation in maternity care. The PICNIC program (Practice Improvement with Clinicians eNgaged in Improving Care) utilises implementation science together with existing evidence for audit and feedback, clinician engagement, quality improvement and clinician behaviour change. The goals are to engage clinicians to identify and reduce unwarranted clinical variation and enhance the delivery of evidence-based care, with the intention of improving care quality, clinical outcomes and efficiency of the health service.