Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Gregory Aarons, PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA
Gregory Aarons, PhD is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, Co-Director of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, and Director of the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center.  
Dr Aarons’ research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the W.T. Grant Foundation. His work focuses on identifying and improving system, organizational, and individual factors that impact implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices, use of research evidence, and quality of care in health care and public sector allied health practice settings. Dr. Aarons has developed implementation frameworks, community-engaged implementation and scale-up strategies, and pragmatic measures. Dr Aarons works with collaborators on implementation projects in the United States, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Australia.  
Dr Aarons joined the Implementation Science editorial team as an Associate Editor in 2009 and  served in that role until transitioning to Co-Editor-in-Chief in 2022.

Paul Wilson, MS, University of Manchester, UK
Paul Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, University of Manchester and Implementation Science research theme lead for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester.
Paul has a background in evidence synthesis with research interests that are focused around evidence informed decision making in health policy and practice. His interests include rapid review methodologies, the development and evaluation of methods to increase the uptake of research based knowledge to inform decisions relating to service delivery, redesign, disinvestment, and the evaluation of service innovation in health systems.
 

Deputy Editor

 

Rinad Beidas, PhD, Northwestern University, USA
Rinad Beidas, PhD, is Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Her previous role was Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit; Founding Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute; Associate Director at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Rinad received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Colgate University and a Doctorate of Philosophy in psychology from Temple University.
Her research is designed to draw on insights from behavioral economics and implementation science to make it easier for clinicians, leaders, and organizations to use best practices to improve the quality of care provided to patients and to improve health outcomes equitably. Broadly, her work entails three primary foci: 1) understanding the context in which individuals will implement evidence-based practices, 2) developing implementation approaches that target the factors that may accelerate or hinder implementation, and 3) conducting pragmatic trials to test these implementation approaches. She does this work across disease areas (e.g., mental health, cancer, HIV) and collaborates closely with key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, health system leaders, payers, and policy-makers.

 

Protocols Editor 

 

Alison Hutchinson, PhD RN, Deakin University, Australia
Alison Hutchinson is a Registered Nurse and holds a Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Melbourne, a Master of Bioethics from Monash University and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Advanced Nursing) from La Trobe University, Australia. She is Chair in Nursing and Director of the Centre for Quality and Patient Research – Monash Health Partnership, and Professor of Nursing at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She has the distinction of being one of only a few Australian nurses to have successfully completed a formal postdoctoral fellowship program overseas.
Supported by awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (now Alberta Innovates), Professor Hutchinson completed her fellowship in the Knowledge Utilization Studies Program at the University of Alberta, Canada, during 2007 to 2009. Professor Hutchinson has attracted competitive research funding from Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia and the Department of Health and Aging, Australia. She also serves on the board of a not-for-profit aged care organization.
She has worked in a variety of clinical, management, education and research roles across a range of public, private and tertiary health care settings. Her primary research interests center on improving care through the translation of research evidence into clinical practice and care of the older person.

 

Whitney Irie, PhD, Boston College School of Social Work, USA
Whitney Irie, PhD, MSW is an Assistant Professor at Boston College’s School of Social Work. She is also an Adjunct Faculty member at The Fenway Institute in Boston, MA, and a lecturer on Population Medicine in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her primary research focuses on preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access and implementation, particularly for Black Women in the United States. Dr. Irie uses implementation science frameworks and methods to examine the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions designed to improve the competency and capacity for HIV prevention care provision in diverse clinical settings that serve Black women. 

 

Associate Editors

Signe Flottorp, MD PhD, Norwegian Institute of Public Health and University of Oslo, Norway
Signe Flottorp is a senior researcher at the Division for Health Services at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and professor at the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society at the University of Oslo. 
Signe is a GP and has worked in primary care for more than 30 years, though she left clinical practice in 2013. Since 1994, she has mainly focused on health services research exploring how to support informed decisions in health care. She has been involved in several projects both to conduct and improve methods for systematic reviews, guideline development and implementation research. She is among the founding members of the GRADE working group, and a member of the editorial team of the Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group in Cochrane.

Sarah Gimbel, PhD RN, University of Washington, USA
Sarah Gimbel, a Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing, co-directs the Center for Global Health Nursing, and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Global Health, all at the University of Washington. She is an established implementation researcher with extensive experience leading complex, multi-country implementation research studies in low and middle-income countries (LIMC), including Kenya, Mozambique and Peru. Her research expertise includes the development and testing of interventions to strengthen health systems and improve the reach and quality of health services. She has ongoing projects in Mozambique, Kenya, Peru, and Washington State and works in the areas of HIV/AIDS, hypertension, neglected tropical diseases and primary health care.

Kristin Konnyu, PhD MSc, University of Aberdeen, UK

Kristin Konnyu, PhD, is a Lecturer in Implementation Science in the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen. Prior to this role, Kristin was an Assistant Professor in at Brown University where she led multiple systematic reviews for the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality as part of Brown’s Evidence Based Practice unit. She is interested in the design, evaluation, and synthesis of complex interventions to address complex health and social care problems, and in particular, ensuring primary studies are designed up front to support evidence synthesis and subsequent decision making needs. Kristin has contributed methodological research to advance the conduct of reviews across the evidence synthesis spectrum, including rapid reviews, meta-regression models for complex interventions, methods for contacting primary study authors for missing information, and methods for imputing missing instracluster correlation coefficients for cluster-randomized trials. She has also advanced methods in the use and comparison of diverse taxonomies to code the content of complex interventions. Her background spans multiple disciplines, including basic sciences, rehabilitation, education, and epidemiology, and psychology, shaping her strong interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approach. 

Jonathan Purtle, DrPH MSc, New York University, USA
Jonathan Purtle is Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management and Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science. He is an implementation scientist whose research focuses on mental health policy. His work examines questions such as how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and is used in policymaking processes, how social and political contexts affect policymaking and policy implementation, and how the implementation of policies “on the books” can be improved in practice. He is also interested in population-based approaches to mental health and how mental health can be integrated in to mainstream public health practice.



Heather Schacht Reisinger, PhD, University of Iowa, USA
Heather Schacht Reisinger, PhD is Associate Director of Engagement, Integration, and Implementation at University of Iowa’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) and an Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine Division at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. She is also a Core Investigator at the Center for Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation (CADRE) at the Iowa City Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Dr. Reisinger is a medical anthropologist who also completed post-doctoral work in epidemiology and biostatistics. Her areas of expertise include ethnography, qualitative methods, and mixed methods; telemedicine; rural health; and infection prevention and control. Her background in anthropological methods prepared her well to work with interdisciplinary teams to study how healthcare systems can most effectively improve access and patient safety.

 Laura Sheard, PhD, University of York, UK
Laura Sheard is an Associate Professor in the department of Health Sciences at the University of York and Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Bradford Institute for Health Research, UK.
She is a qualitative methodologist, health sociologist and applied health services/public health researcher.  She is particularly interested in innovation and novelty in qualitative analytic techniques. As a methodologist, her research interests are broad but tend to concentrate on prison healthcare, health inequalities, quality improvement, quality of healthcare and patient safety/experience.
Laura is interested in the structural and organisational reasons why interventions succeed or fail, alongside understanding how the autonomy and empowerment of healthcare staff influences implementation. She has extensive experience of leading mixed methods evaluations of complex interventions delivered in the NHS.  

Justin D. (J.D.) Smith, PhD, University of Utah, USA
JD Smith, PhD is Associate Professor in the University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, Director of the Dissemination and Implementation Science Core (DISC) of the Utah Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Previously, JD was Associate Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University where he was Associate Director of the NIDA-funded Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV and Co-Director of the Program in Dissemination and Implementation Science in the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
JD leads the implementation science activities of studies focused on evidence-based interventions and guidelines for adult and pediatric obesity, hypertension, cancer prevention, control, and survivorship, mental health, HIV, and other conditions, delivered in primary healthcare systems, community-based organizations, and other systems. His research has been funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and foundations. Dr. Smith’s interests focus on the development and application of innovative methods for implementation research, including models and frameworks, study designs, implementation strategy tracking, and pragmatic measurement and evaluation. He is the co-developer of the Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM), the Longitudinal Implementation Strategies Tracking System (LISTS), the Roll-Out Implementation Optimization (ROIO) design, and other methods. 

Michel Wensing, PhD, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Michel Wensing has a broad interest in primary healthcare and implementation science in health. He is full professor and head of a master of science programme for health services research and implementation science at Heidelberg University, Germany. He is also deputy head of the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research at Heidelberg University Hospital. After receiving degrees in sociology and the medical sciences, he conducted research on the implementation of clinical guidelines, the organisation of ambulatory healthcare, and patients' perspectives on healthcare.
Michel Wensing has been a member of the Implementation Science editorial team since the journal started in 2006 and was co-Editor-in-Chief from 2012 until 2022.  He is also an Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications since 2023.

Lijing L. Yan, MPH PhD, Duke Kunshan University, China
Lijing L. Yan, PhD, MPH, Professor (with tenure) of Global Health and Head of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center, and Director of the Implementation Research on NCD Management Laboratory (IRoNman Lab), Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan City, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. She is also currently adjunct professor at the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, USA; Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development, Beijing, China; School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; and the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. Previously, she was the Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Science in Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University, the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, Director of the China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, and an associate professor at the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.  She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology, and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford office of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her main areas of research are primary-care and community-based chronic disease prevention and control (hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes, a.k.a. cardiometabolic conditions in particular), healthy aging, digital health innovation, and implementation science.

 

Editorial Board

Rebecca Armstrong, PhD, National Disability Insurance Agency, Australia
Sarah A. Birken, PhD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA
C. Hendricks Brown, PhD , Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA
Alicia Bunger, PhD, Ohio State University, USA
David Chambers, DPhil, National Cancer Institute, USA
Erika Crable, PhD MPH, University of California San Diego, USA
Geoffrey Curran, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Sabina De Geest, PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland, and KU Leuven, Belgium
Danielle D'Lima, PhD, University College London, United Kingdom
Moriah Ellen, PhD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Christine Fahim,  PhD MSc, Unity Health Toronto, Canada
Tracey Farragher, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
Robbie Foy, PhD, University of Leeds, UK
Elvin Geng, MD MPH, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Jochen Gensichen, MD MPH, University Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany
Russell Glasgow, MPH PhD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, USA
Don Goldmann, MD, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Emeritus), USA
Alison Hamilton, PhD, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, USA
Bev J. Holmes, PhD, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canada
Erwin Ista, RN PhD, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
Noah Michael Ivers, MD PhD, University of Toronto, Canada
Bridie Kent, PhD, Plymouth University, UK 
Roman Kislov, PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Juliane Koeberlein-Neu, PhD, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Deborah L. Lauseng, AMLS, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Martin Lee, PhD, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, USA
Fan Li, PhD, Yale School of Public Health, USA
Fabiana Lorencatto, PhD, University College London, UK
Carl May, PhD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Joanna Moullin, PhD, Curtin University, Australia
Per Nilsen, PhD, Linköping University, Sweden
Wynne Norton, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
Denise O’Connor, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Gretchen Piatt, MPH PhD, University of Michigan, USA
Byron J. Powell, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Justin Presseau, PhD, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Tim Rapley, PhD, Northumbria University, UK
Scott Roesch, PhD, San Diego State University, USA
Jo Rycroft-Malone, PhD RN, Bangor University, UK
Anne Sales, PhD RN, Department of Veterans Affairs and University of Missouri, USA
Mitchell Sarkies, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Tim Stokes, MPH PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand
Sharon Straus, MD MSc, University of Toronto, Canada
Leti van Bodegom-Vos, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Femke van Nassau, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
Bryan Weiner, PhD, University of Washington, USA 
Cathleen Elizabeth Willging, PhD, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, USA
Luke Wolfenden, PhD, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Dong (Roman) Xu, PhD, Southern Medical University, China
Hervé Tchala Vignon Zomahoun, PhD, Université Laval, Canada

 

Editors Emeriti

Michel Wensing (2012-2022)
Anne Sales (2012-2019)
Martin Eccles (2005-2012)
Brian Mittman (2005-2011)