Dean L. Fixsen - Senior scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA; Co-director of the National Implementation Research Network and of the State Implementation and Scaling up Evidence-based Practices Center.

Dr. Fixsen began his career in human services in 1963 as a Psychiatric Aide in a large state hospital for children with profound developmental delays. Dean received his doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Kansas in 1970. Dean has spent his career developing and implementing evidence-based programs, initiating and managing change processes in provider organizations and service delivery systems, and working with others to improve the lives of children, families, and adults. Over the past five decades, Dean has co-authored over 100 publications including the highly regarded monograph Implementation research: A synthesis of the literature. He has served on numerous editorial boards (including Implementation Science)and has advised federal, state, and local governments.

Dean is currently a Senior Scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dean is Co-Director (with Karen Blase) of the National Implementation Research Network; Co-Director (with Karen Blase, Rob Horner, and George Sugai) of the State Implementation and Scaling up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center; and Co-Chair (with Bianca Albers and Jennifer Schroeder) of the Global Implementation Conference.

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Mark Fraser - John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need, and Associate Dean for research at the School of Social Work, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA

Prof. Fraser is the first author of the book “Intervention research” which explains how to design promising interventions, how to refine, implement and finally evaluate them. His area of research is children and families at risk; antisocial and aggressive behaviour in childhood and adolescence; risk and resilience in childhood; prevention of conduct problems in childhood and adolescence.

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Irene Jensen - Head of the Division of Intervention and Implementation Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet; and Research Director of the multidisciplinary research programme Work and Health.

Professer Jensen has mainly pursued research on back pain concerning cost effective interventions. The group has conducted randomized studies on outcome of rehabilitation evaluating effects on health, behaviour change, sick leave, and cost effectiveness. The results from these studies are now included in several international systematic reviews and thus adding to the international evidence base. Another main topic is research within health economics and implementation of evidence based methods. A large study has been conducted on the implementation of evidence-based measures in workplaces and in occupational health. Research results from that study are now implemented on a very large scale by AFA Insurance and in private enterprises in Sweden and Norway. Professer Jensen is currently expert advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Social Affairs and to the Ministry of Employment concerning work rehabilitation, environment and health.

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Åke Nygren, Professor Emeritus, Karolinska Institutet, Division of Intervention and Implementation Research, Sweden

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Claes Tingvall, Professor, Director of Traffic Safety at the Swedish Transport
Administration [Trafikverket], Sweden

Prof. Tingvall has a long experience of implementation of policies and strategies
within the traffic safety area, both nationally and internationally. He is the Director of Traffic Safety at the Swedish Transport Administration and also Professor at Monash University Accident Research Centre, Australia.

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Martin White - Professor of Public Health from Newcastle University, UK

Prof. White is the Director of the Fuse – the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a collaboration between the five universities of North East England. Fuse works in partnership with health, local government and other sectors to transform health through public health research and the application of evidence in policy and practice.