Dr Elaine Toomey is a Lecturer in the University of Galway and Programme Director of the MSc in Evidence-Based Future Healthcare. She is also a Health Research Board ‘Applying Research into Policy and Practice’ Research Fellow and PI of the INTREPiD (Integrating Research into Public Health Decision-making) project. She is a Cochrane Ireland Research Associate and a member of the Centre for Health Research Methods (University of Galway), and the Health Behaviour Change Research Group (University of Galway). Elaine’s research has two main strands – 1) utilising health behaviour change for chronic disease prevention and management, and 2) enhancing the methods used for the implementation of health research into policy and practice. She has specific methodological expertise in evidence synthesis and fidelity/adaptation of behaviour change interventions.