5th UK Implementation Science Research Conference

Paul Cairney, professor of politics and public policy, University of Stirling, UK (@Cairneypaul). Paul's research interests are in comparative public policy, policy analysis, and policy theories, applied to UK and devolved government policy, and the use of evidence in policy and policymaking. 

In his plenary lecture, Paul will discuss: Why do policymakers not listen to your evidence, and is it their fault?

Vanessa Carter became an antimicrobial resistance and One Health advocate after surviving a serious car accident and multidrug-resistant MRSA infection. She is a patient advisor to several organisations including CIDRAP and the WHO Strategic Technical Advisory Group on AMR (STAG-AMR) as well as a civil society champion at the Africa CDC. She has won awards for her advocacy from the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FINDdx) and Antibiotic Guardian (UK) and further completed an e-Patient Scholarship at Stanford University Medicine X in the USA. She provides consulting services in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) research such as with the  ASPIRES  collaborative (Antibiotic use across Surgical Pathways - Investigating, Redesigning and Evaluating Systems).

In her plenary lecture, Vanessa will discuss: Valuing patient engagement to implement meaningful interventions for antimicrobial resistance.

Samantha Connolly is an investigator at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research (CHOIR) and a practicing clinical psychologist within the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System. She is an assistant professor within the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry and an associate editor of the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science. Her research focuses on the implementation of phone and video telehealth. She recently completed a two-year VA Career Development Award studying uptake of telemental health care during the Covid-19 pandemic, and is the incoming recipient of a subsequent five-year national VA Health Services Career Development Award that will focus specifically on quality of telehealth care.

Donald M. Hilty  is a scholar in psychiatric and medical education, health services, and telemedicine. He works as a professor of psychiatry at the UC Davis School of Medicine, with United Health Services and Heritage Oaks Hospital to develop virtual care and has assisted the Veterans Health Administration to implement technology. He speaks internationally and researches models of care, health services design, health economic outcomes and implementation of video, mobile health, sensors and other technologies. His current research is in implementation and evaluation of video, social media, mobile health and asynchronous competencies for psychiatry, behavioral health and medicine.

In their plenary lecture, Samantha and Donald will discuss critical components of telemental health implementation during the Covid-19 pandemic from patient, clinician, and system perspectives.

Jill Francis  PhD, is professor of implementation science in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, professor of health services research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Care Centre, Australia, and a senior scientist with the Centre for Implementation Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada; formerly professor of health services research at City University of London, UK, and professor of health psychology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Jill is known for advancing theoretical and methodological developments in the field of implementation science in a wide range of clinical contexts. Jill has published over 225 papers in peer-reviewed journals. 

In her plenary lecture, Jill will explore: Implementation in the wild: three levers to support practice change.