Invited Speakers

Ana's research agenda focuses on the intersection of implementation science, adaptation science, and healthcare equity. She works to identify strategies that facilitate the implementation of evidence-based interventions in low-resource settings and historically underserved populations, nationally and globally. Associate Professor Baumann has collaborated with several investigators in adapting and implementing evidence-based interventions in usual care, in different settings and with different disease areas (e.g., sickle cell disease, hypertension, mental health, cancer).​

​Professor Sandra Eades AO is a Noongar woman, with family from the Minang and Goreng mobs in south-west Western Australia, who has made pioneering contributions to the epidemiology of Aboriginal child health. Beginning as a GP, Professor Eades became the first Aboriginal medical doctor to be awarded a PhD, for her studies on the causal pathways and determinants of health among Aboriginal infants in the first year of life. Professor Eades has an exceptional track record as one of Australiaʼs most significant Indigenous health leaders, with senior roles including Dean of Curtin University Medical School, Chief Medical Advisor – First Nations for Australia's Heart Foundation, and a Board Director of the Burnet Institute.
 

Julian Elliott is one of the world’s leading innovators in the production and use of research evidence. He is the co-founder and CEO of the Future Evidence Foundation, a non-profit organisation that produces Covidence, the most widely used software for evidence synthesis, and developer of the Living Evidence model: trustworthy summaries of science that are kept up to date with the latest research. This model was widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic and is now being adopted worldwide, including through the Alliance for Living Evidence, a global collaboration established by Professor Elliott and supported by the Foundation.​