As Principal Economist at FHI 360, Annette N. Brown, PhD leads efforts to promote FHI 360 thought leadership, especially in research and evaluation, and build an organizational culture of evidence generation and use, across all sectors and regions. She also serves as editor-in-chief for the R&E Search for Evidence blog. Prior to joining FHI 360, Dr. Brown headed the Washington, DC office of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and served on its executive team. In that role, she oversaw a variety of programs, including the organization’s HIV and AIDS impact evaluation grants windows and its research transparency initiatives. Earlier in her career, Dr. Brown worked at both for-profit and not-for-profit development implementers in roles that involved research, strategy, program management, business development, technical assistance, and measurement and evaluation. She was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Michigan University, and has held research positions at the World Bank and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. Dr. Brown is the author or co-author of several articles that have been published in social science and public health journals. She has a doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan.

Yang Kehu, professor, doctoral tutor. Director of Lanzhou University Branch Center of E-cooperation Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Director of Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Lanzhou University, Director of Institute of Evidence-Based Medicine, Lanzhou University, Dean of School of Continuing Education of Lanzhou University. Mainly engaged in evidence-based medicine and medical information retrieval and utilization research. He has undertaken 8 international cooperation projects and national, provincial and ministerial level projects in the past 3 years and published more than 60 research papers.

Dr Grady is an early career researcher with the Hunter New England Population Health Research Group at the University of Newcastle. She was awarded her PhD in 2016. Her research is focussed on the prevention of chronic disease through the implementation of guidelines via community settings. Dr Grady's current work aims to enhance the public health impact of technology.

Tyler is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Insurance, Work and Health Group of Monash University. He holds a DPhil in Evidence-Based Intervention from the University of Oxford and previously worked as a statistician at the Ministry of Justice in London and as a research project manager at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

Jingyi Zhang, studied at School of Public Health, Lanzhou university, specializing in Social Medicine and Health Management, research interests are health policy; Kuhu Yang, professor, director of Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Science, Lanzhou University

Yanagqin Xun, studied at School of Public Health, Lanzhou university, specializing in Social Medicine and Health Management, research interests are health economics; Kehu Yang, professor, director of Evidence-Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Science, Lanzhou University

Alexandra van Beek is a PhD student with Central Queensland University. She has recently completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours First Class) and has gone on to enrol in a doctoral programme working with the CQU Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research. She is honoured to be working with the "Resilience Study", an Indigenous student mentoring programme aimed at improving the resilience of remote-living Indigenous youth who must attend boarding schools to do their secondary schooling. Her project will involve utilising systems thinking methodologies, including systems dynamics, to evaluate the programme. Her background could not be more different, as she worked as a process technician in mining processing for many years. This has, however, given her great insight into both process- and systems-thinking, and the futility of attempting to introduce change without taking all stakeholders and the broader system into account. Her degree in Psychology, while interesting and educational, left her feeling frustrated with scientific research in general, with its emphasis on reductionist-based science and methodologies. That was until she discovered the wonderful world of systems thinking. Now she's hooked.

Kathryn has over 5 years health promotion experience leading the planning, implementation and evaluation of numerous randomised control trials and large-scale school based health promotion programs. Kathryn's PhD project (healthy food@school) is the "Scale up of a multi-strategic program to increase implementation of the NSW healthy canteen policy". This is the first trial internationally to evaluate the large-scale dissemination of an efficacious canteen implementation trial. Kathryn's area of research and expertise is school based healthy eating and physical activity policy and practice implementation with a focus on theory based implementation science. Kathryn has recently worked with the NSW Ministry of Health to inform the review of Fresh Tastes@School healthy canteen policy and development of the new NSW Healthy Canteen Strategy and menu assessment tools (2017). Kathryn was awarded a HCRA 2018 Implementation Science HDR Student Award ($5000.00), a Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour (UoN) 2017 Project Grant $4930.00, a Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour (UoN) 2016 PhD Top-up Grant $5000.00 and recently the Jennie Thomas Research Travel Grant $9300.00.