Carlos is now focused on contributing to a broad range of applied health research projects at NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West in collaborations between academia, the NHS and other partners. A recent focus of his work is related to bringing evidence into practice and behaviour change interventions. He is also part of the Health Economics Bristol (HEB) at Bristol Medical School.

Before joining ARC, Carlos completed my PhD (finished in 2020) in behavioural economics and experimental psychology. Particularly, he studied the impact of labelling interventions in tobacco and alcohol products.

He use a wide range of methodologies including experimental techniques, cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis models or qualitative analyses in multidisciplinary fields. Always orientated in promoting common good: consumerism, public health interventions, harm reduction, mental health, and behaviour change in general.

Carlos is also interested in public and policy engagement and consider it as an important aspect of his work. He also have some experience in teaching and supervising students. He teaches health economics on the Master course in Public Health and NIHR ARC West training course on Health Economics.

Katie Richards is a Research Associate working in King’s Improvement Science (KIS) at the Centre for Implementation Science, King’s College London. Her role involves conducting mixed-methods improvement and implementation research projects across King’s Health Partners. Before starting the Research Associate post, she completed her PhD at King’s College London, where she evaluated the national implementation and outcomes of an early intervention service for eating disorders in the UK.

Fran Hallam is a Clinical Researcher at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and a PhD student at the Centre for Rehabilitation and Ageing at the University of Nottingham. She holds a Masters degree in Public Health. She is a registered physiotherapist with previous experience of working in care home and falls service settings.

Fran’s PhD topic is co-production of falls management approaches in care homes. Her PhD forms part of a NIHR funded research project which aims to develop a novel model for the implementation of falls management in care home settings.

Hannah (She/They) has a Bachelor of Arts in Children, Young People and Families from York St. John University and a Master of Science in Social Policy and Social Research from University College London.
She joined the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London in 2020 as a mixed methods research assistant working on the Children’s Palliative care Outcomes Scale (C-POS) study. Shortly after she won a competitive ARC PhD studentship and began her PhD studies at King’s, working on implementing of C-POS measures into routine practice. She is also the deputy coordinator for the European Association for Palliative Care’s Task Force for improving palliative and end of life care for LGBT+ people

Caitlin Wilson (@999_Caitlin) is a final year PhD student at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, funded by the National Institute for Health Research Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, and supervised by Dr Jonathan Benn, Professor Rebecca Lawton and Dr Gillian Janes. Caitlin is also a paramedic for North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust and an Associate Editor for the British Paramedic Journal.
Caitlin’s PhD explores how enhancing prehospital feedback can enrich emergency ambulance staff wellbeing, paramedic decision-making and prehospital patient safety. As part of her PhD, Caitlin has conducted several research studies including a systematic review, a qualitative interview study and a mixed-methods diary study. At this conference, Caitlin is presenting on the development of an initial programme theory of prehospital feedback as part of an ongoing mixed-methods study combining a realist evaluation framework with an explanatory case study design.

Patricia is a PhD student at University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. Her project is focusing on the implementation of a combined lifestyle intervention, ProMuscle, for community dwelling older adults.
With more than 10 years’ experience as a physical therapist in geriatric care, a need for improving health care especially for the older adults grew more and more. Therefore, Patricia started the master Clinical Heath Sciences at the University of Utrecht and obtained her master’s degree in 2020.
Research interest include implementation, prevention, and health care for older adults.

Raphaëlle-Ashley Guerbaai graduated with a BSc (Hons) Nursing Degree from the University of Liverpool, UK in 2010 and decided to continue her university education with a Master of Science in Infectious Disease Control (specializing in Epidemiology and Public Health). She received her MSc in spring of 2012 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine after working for 6 months on the epidemiology of septicaemia for the Ministry of Health in Tanzania, East Africa. Subsequently, Raphaëlle worked as a specialist nurse in cardiology intensive care at the University Hospital of Grenoble, France.
Raphaëlle completed her Ph.D. in April 2022 working on the INTERCARE project (Nursing Models for Care in Swiss Nursing Homes: Improving INTERprofessional CARE for Better Residential Outcomes), specializing in implementation science and is part of the Patient Safety and Quality of Care Research Group. Since 2022 she is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Nursing Science and has recently been awarded a postdoctoral mobility grant.

Helen Sheldon joined the Health Innovation Network in 2018, working on a large mixed methods process and impact evaluation of the roll out of ESCAPE-pain in the community and leisure sectors. Since then, she has led evaluations of Remote Monitoring in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Micro-volunteering and a Whole Schools Approach to children and young people’s emotional wellbeing. She has also supported companies on the Digital Health.London Accelerator and Launchpad Programmes develop their evidence base and been part of a multi-agency collaboration to extend the work of the DH.L Evidence Generator to create a national digital evidence hub.

Helen has over twenty years’ experience of evaluating initiatives in settings across health and social care, using a broad range of techniques. She has a particular expertise in qualitative methods and in stakeholder engagement, and specialist knowledge of quality assurance and information security in managing research and evaluation projects.

Juliane Mielke is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Nursing Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has a background in nursing and worked for several years in acute care settings in Germany and Switzerland. Juliane completed her PhD in 2022 which included the development of a methodology for studying context in implementation science. Her current research focuses on the combination of implementation science, systems science methods and routine data.

Dr Susan Calnan is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Public Health, University College Cork. Her research interests include implementation science and knowledge translation. Dr Calnan completed her PhD in 2019, focusing on the evaluation of an alcohol prevention programme. Since then, she has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on the implementation of health services and/or evidence. Prior to this, she worked for 10 years in research publishing for organisations including the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. She also holds a Professional Certificate in Knowledge Translation.

Bernadett is a 2nd year PhD student within the Nicotine Research Group in the Addictions Department at King’s College London. She is supervised by Dr Leonie Brose and Professor Ann McNeill.

PhD thesis provisional title: Improving the provision and uptake of smoking cessation treatment in the United Kingdom.
Overarching aim of her PhD is to investigate how smoking cessation treatment provision in the UK could be improved, and to explore how prescription e-cigarettes may help to do this, to further reduce the prevalence of smoking and meet the smoke-free 2030 target (adult smoking prevalence to be 5% or less in England).

Bernadett’s PhD funding: 1+3 (Masters + PhD) Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP).

Qualifications:
• Medicine, Health and Public Policy MSc (King’s College London) 2019-2020
• Biomedical Science BSc (Imperial College London) 2012-2015

Allison Metz, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist with expertise in child development and family systems and a commitment to improving child and family outcomes and advancing equity. Allison specializes in the implementation of evidence to achieve social impact for children and families in a range of human service and education areas, with an emphasis on child welfare and early childhood service contexts. Allison is Professor of the Practice and Director of Implementation Practice at the School of Social Work, Faculty Fellow at the FPG Child Development Institute, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Allison previously served as Director of the National Implementation Research Network and Lead of the Implementation Science Division at the FPG Child Development Institute where she also served as a Senior Research Scientist for 13 years. Allison’s research interests include the role of trust, power and relationships in evidence use, competencies for supporting implementation, and co-creation strategies to support sustainable change. She is particularly interested in the development of a workforce for supporting implementation in public systems. Allison is co-chair of the Institute on Implementation Practice and founding director of the Collaborative for Implementation Practice at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She is the co-editor of the widely read volume Applying Implementation Science in Early Childhood Programs and Systems.

Tracey Brighton is an Allied Health Professional with over 22 years of experience working in the healthcare industry as both a clinician and a healthcare leader. Possessing a clinical background in Physiotherapy, she has worked in both the public and private sectors and has held leadership positions in the public health system for the past 12 years. Tracey has extensive experience in strategic leadership and planning, workforce redesign and development, project and change management and service development.

To complement her a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and a Graduate Diploma in Health Management, Tracey has recently completed a Diploma of Professional Coaching.

Allison Metz, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist with expertise in child development and family systems and a commitment to improving child and family outcomes and advancing equity. Allison specializes in the implementation of evidence to achieve social impact for children and families in a range of human service and education areas, with an emphasis on child welfare and early childhood service contexts. Allison is Professor of the Practice and Director of Implementation Practice at the School of Social Work, Faculty Fellow at the FPG Child Development Institute, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. Allison previously served as Director of the National Implementation Research Network and Lead of the Implementation Science Division at the FPG Child Development Institute where she also served as a Senior Research Scientist for 13 years. Allison’s research interests include the role of trust, power and relationships in evidence use, competencies for supporting implementation, and co-creation strategies to support sustainable change. She is particularly interested in the development of a workforce for supporting implementation in public systems. Allison is co-chair of the Institute on Implementation Practice and founding director of the Collaborative for Implementation Practice at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She is the co-editor of the widely read volume Applying Implementation Science in Early Childhood Programs and Systems.

Charis Xuan Xie is a PhD student in the Wellcome Trust Health Data in Practice programme at Queen Mary University of London. She holds an MSc in Health Information Systems from the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Prior to her PhD, she worked as a research assistant at Monash University, evaluating the accuracy of smartwatch technology for the diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation. She then worked at The University of Sydney on a systematic review of the effectiveness of clinical dashboards on medication use and test ordering.

Charis’ research interests are primarily in the field of digital health, implementation science and health data science. Currently, her doctoral work explores the use of routine healthcare data in improving the efficiency of randomised implementation trials.

Vivi is a Research Fellow for the NIHR Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit (BSc PRU) based at UCL. Vivi’s current research focuses on optimising behaviour change interventions targeting healthcare professionals’ practice and on synthesising evidence to inform health-related recommendations and policies. Her research interests include using behaviour change theory and models for the design and development of effective interventions and the implementation of research evidence into practice with the aim to improve quality of service provision. Prior to working in this post, Vivi was involved in projects designing interventions aiming to change social work and social care professional practice and exploring the effectiveness of training, and in the evaluation of complex interventions in local authority settings. Vivi is a BPS Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol AFBPsS).

Emanuela Nyantakyi is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich. Her research integrates systems thinking approaches into implementation science research and is primarily focused on the European Union Horizon 2020 project NeoIPC (Neonatal Infection Prevention and Control). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Science from the Technological University of Munich and a Master of Science in Health Sciences with a concentration in Health Policy from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.