
Programming Committee
2021 Conference Co-Chairs
Aaron Sawyer, PhD, PMP
Cognosante
Senior Director, Healthcare Consulting
Kea Turner, PhD, MPH, MA
Moffitt Cancer Center
Assistant Member, Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior and Assistant Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Planning Committee Members
Niveen Abu-Rmeileh
Professor of Statistical Epidemiology at Birzeit University
Palestine
Chinenye Afonne
Ghana Legon/WHO TDR Fellow
Ghana/Nigeria
Prof. Okey Akpala
Senior Management and Leadership Advisor at M-Space Nigeria
Nigeria
Leonieke Boendermaker
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Netherlands
Claire Burns
Director, Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection
Scotland
Laura Ghiron
President/Member, Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access /ExpandNet Secretariat
USA
Saima Hamad
Vice Chancellor, Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU)
Pakistan
Eleanor McClorey
Independent Consultant and Coach, and former Chief Executive of an evidence based children’s services strategy
Ireland
Marlys Merrill
Colorado Evidence-Based Practices Implementation for Capacity Resource Center
USA
Cricket Mitchell
Implementation Consultant, Cricket Mitchell Consulting, LLC
USA
Jesse Nodora
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego and Moores Cancer Center
USA/Mexico
Dr. Alexis Ntabona
Independent Consultant
Previously Team Leader of the Technical Support Team Department of Reproductive Health and Research World Health Organization, Geneva
Democratic Republic Congo
Diane Pasini-Hill
Colorado Evidence-Based Practices Implementation for Capacity Resource Center
USA
Jenice Pizzuto
Co-founder, IMPACT Learning and Leading Group
USA
Jonathan Scaccia
Principal, The Dawn Chorus Group
USA
Yulia Shenderovich
Researcher at the University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Ashleigh Townley
Knowledge Translation Specialist with Evidence to Care, Knowledge Translation Hub, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Canada
Melissa Van Dyke
Director and President, Active Implementation Research Network and Global Implementation Society
Scotland
Gabrielle Zimmerman
Program Coordinator - Knowledge Trans, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Pediatrics Department, University of Alberta
Canada