Faculty and other contributors

Our Senior Faculty oversee the development and delivery GACD’s implementation science training, guide trainees during live sessions, support the Junior Faculty, and contribute lectures to GACD e-Hub programmes. The Senior Faculty are the foundation of GACD training events and activities.

Faculty Lead – Schools and Masterclasses

• Brian Oldenburg – Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia (2018–present)

Implementation Science School

• Pilvikki Absetz – Tampere University, Finland (2020–present)

• Zahra Aziz – Monash University, Australia (2020–present)

• Vilma Irazola – Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria (IECS), Argentina (2018–present)

• Lijing Yan – Duke Kunshan University, China (2020–present)

• Rajesh Vedanthan – New York University Grossman School of Medicine, USA (2020–present)

Past faculty

• Ed Gregg – Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Ireland (2018–2023)

• Rachel Sturke – Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA (2018–2023)

• Catherine Kyobutungi – African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya (2020–2023)

Masterclass on Scale Up Science

• Lisa R. Hirschhorn – Northwestern University, USA (2022, 2025)

• Mark Huffman – University of Washington, USA (2022)

• Abhijit Nadkarni – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, India (2025)

Our Junior Faculty comprise alumni from live GACD training events who are invited back to facilitate and contribute to Schools and other activities. Junior Faculty are essential to live training programmes and are a key source of learning and support for trainees. Junior Faculty members may undertake this role for one year, or several years.

Implementation Science School

The years in which each person contributed as a Junior Faculty member are indicated in parentheses.

Supervisors

• Leslie Johnson – Emory University, USA (2022–present)

• Kavita Singh – Public Health Foundation of India, India and Emory University, USA (2023–present)

Team Leaders

• Tilahun Haregu – University of Melbourne, Australia (2020–present)

• Rafael Aiello Bomfim – Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (2020–present)

• Enying Gong – University of Melbourne, Australia (2020–present)

• Kim Quimby – University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados (2023–present)

• Melinda Chelva – Queen’s University, Canada (2024–present)

• Myo Nyein Aung – Juntendo University, Japan (2020–2023)

• Ruth Verhey – Independent researcher and psychotherapist (2021–2023)

• Hisham Moosan – Indian Council of Medical Research, India (2023)

• Darcelle Schouw– Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2022)

• Leslie Johnson – Emory University, USA (2021)

• Jepchirchir Kiplagat– Moi University, Kenya (2021)

• Peter Delobelle – University of Cape Town, South Africa and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium (2021)

• Kavita Singh – Public Health Foundation of India, India and Emory University, USA (2020, 2021)

• Sathish Thirunavukkarasu – McMaster University, Canada (2020)

• Xuefeng Zhong – Anhui Medical University, China (2020)

• Maria Lazo de los Angeles Lazo Porras – Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru (2020)

• Beryl Maritim – AMPATH, Kenya (2020)

• Kate Danhieux – University of Antwerp, Belgium (2020)

Masterclass on Scale Up Science

• Praveen Pradeep – Goa Institute of Management, India

• Urvita Bhatia – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, India

• Yashi Gandhi – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, India

Our guest speakers are renowned authorities in implementation science and attend live training programmes to discuss and explore specific issues in the field.

Implementation Science School

• Peter Kilmarx – Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA (2020–present)

• Adolfo Rubinstein – Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria (IECS), Argentina (2020–present)

• Margaret Bee – Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (2024)

• Josephine Birungi – Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda (2023)

• Catherine Kyobutungi – African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya (2020–2022)

Masterclass on Scale Up Science

• Adolfo Rubinstein – Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria (IECS), Argentina (2022, 2025)

• Marleen Temmerman – Aga Khan University, Kenya (2025)

• Giulia Loffreda – Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization (2025)

• Dike Ojji – University of Abuja, Nigeria (2025)

• Victor G. Davila-Roman – Washington University in St. Louis, USA (2022)

• Alyssa Chase-Vilchez – Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (2022)

Our e-Hub lecturers are experts in their fields and have prepared a recorded lecture that features as core learning on our e-Hub programmes. Many of our lecturers attend sessions as part of live training events to discuss the content of their lectures with trainees and take questions.

Fundamentals Programme on Implementation Science

• The School Senior Faculty (see above)

• Carolyn Johnson – Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases

• Enola Proctor – University of Washington in St Louis, USA

• Kavita Singh – Public Health Foundation of India, India and Emory University, USA

• Leslie Johnson – Emory University, USA

• Ruth Verhey – Independent researcher and psychotherapist

With case studies from

• Jaap Koot – University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

• Arunah Chandran – International Agency for Research on Cancer, France

Access the Fundamentals Programme here.

Advanced Programme on Scale Up Science

• The Masterclass Senior Faculty (see above)

• Adolfo Rubinstein – Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria (IECS), Argentina

• Anusha Ramani Chander – Monash University, Australia

• Cole Hooley – University of Washington in St Louis, USA

• Dike Ojji – University of Abuja, Nigeria

• Enola Proctor – University of Washington in St Louis, USA

• Hueiming Liu – The George Institute for Global Health, Australia

• Irene Deltetto – HT ANALYSTS, Australia

• Jacqui Webster – University Technology of Sydney, Australia

• Julia Moore – The Center for Implementation, Canada

• Lisa Pfadenhauer – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany

• Maria Lazo Porras – Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru

• Monika Martens – University of Antwerp and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

• Praveen Pradeep – Goa Institute of Management, India

• Serene Yoong – Deakin University, Australia

• Urvita Bhatia – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, India

• Vilma Irazola – Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria (IECS), Argentina and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA

• Virginia McKay – University of Washington in St Louis, USA

• Yashi Gandhi – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and Sangath, India

• Zinzi Pardoel – University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands

With case studies from

• Abdul Kuddus – Diabetic Association of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

• Joanna Morrison – University College London, UK

• JD Smith – University of Utah, USA

• Kavumpurathu Thankappan – Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, India

• Koku Awoonor – Ghana Health Service, Ghana

• Neo Tapela – University of Oxford, UK

• Sarah Gimbel – University of Washington, USA

• Tilahun Haregu – University of Melbourne, Australia

Access the Advanced Programme here.