Dr Laura Shallcross — Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

Doctor Laura Shallcross is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics.

She holds a Clinician Scientist Fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research. Laura's research focuses on the application of data science (epidemiological analysis, risk prediction modelling, machine learning) to large-scale datasets such as electronic health records to improve clinical outcomes of patients with infectious diseases and improve antimicrobial prescribing.

Laura's research has a strong translational focus. She works with a wide range of disciplines ranging from basic scientists (omics) to behavioural scientists, and collaborates with practitioners and policy-makers. She is a member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (APRHAI).

Laura holds grants from organisations including the National Institute of Health Research, and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Dr Fabiana Lorencatto — Research Lead, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change

Doctor Fabiana Lorencatto is the Research Lead at the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL. Fabiana's research interests are in behaviour change and implementation science. Her research focuses on applying behavioral change theory and methods to explore factors influencing clinical practice behaviors, as a basis for designing interventions to improve the quality of healthcare.

Fabiana is currently involved in a number of multidisciplinary programs of research focusing on improving the implementation of evidence-based practice across a range of clinical areas, including: blood transfusion, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention control, maternal and neonatal health, smoking cessation, and diabetic retinopathy screening. Fabiana also has specific methodological interests in synthesising evidence on behaviour change interventions and conducting process evaluations of complex interventions, particularly the assessment of intervention fidelity.

Prof Carolyn Tarrant — Professor of Health Services Research, University of Leicester

Carolyn is lead of the Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research (SAPPHIRE) group within the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester. She is a social scientist with expertise in qualitative methods, including ethnographic methods in applied healthcare research.

Carolyn has interests in intervention design and evaluation of improvement. She is currently an investigator on several projects funded thorough the Joint Research Councils UK Theme of Behaviour Change and Antimicrobial Resistance, and NIHR.

She has conducted research into the implementation of improvement programmes for healthcare associated infections and sepsis. She is Assistant Editor for the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.

Mr Jonathan West — Reader in Healthcare Design, RCA Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design

Jonathan leads the Healthcare Research Space at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art. His work on a new resuscitation trolley for the National Patient Safety Agency won two Medical Futures Innovation Awards and completed successful clinical trials prior to manufacture. He has shaped high profile projects such as Design Bugs Out and Design for Patient Dignity with the Department of Health and Design Council, as well as supervising projects with partners ranging from ArjoHuntleigh to the Medical Defence Union. He was Design Lead on the EPSRC-funded project 'Designing Out Medical Error'. This award-winning project pioneered methods of collaboration and has resulted in a suite of designs for the hospital ward, and paved the way for the HELIX Centre, where Jonathan was seconded. His work has been published internationally in journals, books and as papers.