Implementation Science Conference 2027

Prof Amy Grove is a Professor of Implementation Science and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (CEIS). Prof Grove has built a pioneering and distinct area of scholarship in Implementation Science and Health Technology Assessment. Her interdisciplinary contribution across clinical and organisational science is unique.  

Dr Arabella Scantlebury is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham and Deputy Director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (CEIS). Her research focuses on improving the delivery of surgical and urgent care services, using mixed-methods evaluation and implementation approaches. She leads the Implementation Science Programme and has led and contributed to multiple NIHR-funded studies examining how complex interventions can be effectively adopted and sustained in real-world clinical settings.

Dr Carlos Sillero Rejon is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, within Health Economics & Health Policy (HEHP@Bristol) and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West. His applied health research, with the NHS and partners, focuses on bringing evidence into practice and behaviour change interventions. He completed his PhD in 2020 in behavioural economics and experimental psychology in addiction, studying tobacco and alcohol labelling with the Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group (TARG). He applies experimental, cost-effectiveness, decision-modelling and qualitative methods across public health and harm reduction, and teaches health economics at Bristol.

Professor Tracy Finch is Professor of Healthcare & Implementation Science at Northumbria University. She believes implementation shouldn't be a consideration left until after interventions have been developed and evaluated. Working across a broad range of topics and issues, her research focuses on how interventions and programmes can be implemented better, so that they "work" for all involved or affected by them and are more easily incorporated into routine services so that benefits reach those who need them. She does this using (and developing) theoretical understandings of implementation process, applying them to practical implementation problems, and developing toolkits to make implementation easier in practice.