Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

Morning | Download the slides (9.4 MB)

• Setting the stage: Orientation and networking

  • Margaret Bee (GACD) and Izzy Bandurek (GACD)

• From intervention to implementation strategies

  • Arunah Chandran (International Agency for Research on Cancer, France // CP17)

  • Darcelle Schouw (Stellenbosch University, South Africa // SU23, SU24)

Afternoon

• Leveraging behavioural science to develop better public health policies and practices | Download the slides

  • Simon Bacon (Concordia University, Canada // LC14, HC04)

  • Sandhya Kanaka Yatirajula (The George Institute for Global Health, India // LC11)

  • Kim Lavoie (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada // LC14)

  • Mariantonia Lemos Hoyos (Universidad EAFIT, Colombia // LC14)

  • Devina Nand (Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Fiji // LC13)

  • Mohammed Khali (Ministry of Education, Fiji // LC13)

• Study designs for implementation research | Download the slides

  • Samanta Lalla Edward (Ezintsha, Wits Health Consortium, South Africa // HC08)

  • Sagar Jilka (University of Warwick, UK // LC19)

  • Anderson N. Soriano-Moreno (Prisma ONG, Peru // SU27)

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• Welcome from GACD’s CEO

  • Morven Roberts (GACD)

• NCD perspectives from Rwanda

  • Rose Gahire (Rwanda NCD Alliance)

  • Abebe Bekele (University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda)

  • Francois Uwinkindi (Rwanda Biomedical Centre)

• Joint activity highlights

  • Jaap Koot (University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands // On behalf of the Systems approach to scale up working group)

  • Gina Agarwal and Jasdeep Brar (McMaster University, Canada // On behalf of the SPARK working group)

  • Kevin Mao (Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Australia // GACD e-Hub Project Manager)

  • Maisha Syed (UK Department for Health and Social Care // Lead author of the GACD Diabetes Research Programme Report)

  • John Hurst (University College London, UK), Lijing Yan (Duke Kunshan University, China), and Giulia Loffreda (Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research) on behalf of the NCDs and acute infections working group.

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• Partnerships are the essence of implementation research: The PRESCRIP-TEC Project

  • Jaap Koot (University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands // CP10)

  • Shamim Namagembe (Uganda Rural Development Training Centre // CP10)

• Hot topics in implementation science

  • Rafael Aiello Bomfim (Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil // GACD-CONNECT alumnus)

  • Blandina Theophil Mmbaga (Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Tanzania // LC15)

  • Colin Bell (Deakin University, Australia // SU18)

  • Pallab Maulik (The George Institute for Global Health, India // MH16, LC11)

• World Cafe: Equity across the implementation research community

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• Connecting the dots across the Research Network

  • Bernd Puschner (Ulm University, Germany // MH23)

  • Michaela Riddell (Papua New Guinea Institute for Medical Research, Papua New Guinea // CP04)

  • Katrina Kissock (The George Institute for Global Health, Australia // SU19, SU25)

  • Representatives from Healthy Cities projects and Life Course projects

• Real world results spotlight: The UPSIDES Project

  • Bernd Puschner (Ulm University, Germany // MH23)

  • Jasmine Kalha (Center for Mental Health Law and Policy, India // MH23)

  • Ramona Hiltensperger (Ulm University, Germany // MH23)

• Real world results spotlight: The GREAT-4-DIABETES Project

  • Darcelle Schouw (Stellenbosch University, South Africa // SU23, SU24)