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Wednesday, 18/11/2026 · 09:00 London (GMT +0:00)
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In 2025, The Lancet and the Elsevier Foundation jointly launched the inaugural Evidence to Impact Awards. These awards were designed to identify and showcase exemplary case studies of implementation science in practice from around the world. Implementation science is the study of methods to promote the adoption and integration of evidence-based interventions into real-world contexts at a system level.

Join members of the three winning teams in this webinar as they share learnings from their projects. Although the subject matter and settings are very different—adolescent maternal survival in Sierra Leone, critical care in Tanzania, and cancer care in rural Australia—all three demonstrate a deep commitment to community engagement, co-design, evidence-based implementation strategies, and sustainability via long-term partnerships.

The Lancet-Elsevier Foundation Evidence to Impact Awards 2026 winners:
  • Implementing Essential Emergency and Critical Care in Tanzania

    Tim Baker, Anab Issa, Godfrey Barabona, Hilda Mushi, Pius Kagoma, Upendo Bandeke, Karima Khalid

  • 2YoungLives: Reducing Adolescent Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Sierra Leone

    Cristina Fernandez Turienzo, Lucy November, Mangenda Kamara, Philemon Kamara, Prince T Williams, Betty Sam, Suzanne Thomas, Paul Seed, Andrew Shennan, Jane Sandall

  • The ECORRA Trial: Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia

    Anna Ugalde, Skye Marshall, Anna Chapman, Serene (Sze Lin) Yoong, Camille Short, Nicolas Hart, Kate Gunn, Rebecca Bergin, Charlene Wright, Hannah Jongebloed

    • About the Speakers

    1788280304-34ba09352dd73ea7 Zoë Mullan
    Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Global Health, UK

    Zoë Mullan joined The Lancet Global Health as founding Editor-in-Chief in 2013 after working previously as a Senior Editor at The Lancet. She is an Ex-Officio Board Member of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (USA) and a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Centre for International Health Protection at the Robert Koch Institute (Germany). Between 2013 and 2017, Zoë was a Council Member and Trustee of the Committee on Publication Ethics. She originally trained in Biochemistry at the University of Bath (UK) before joining the publishing industry. Zoë is passionate about health equity, research integrity and publication ethics, and using evidence to improve lives.

    1788280524-d415c1350b450c76 Maha Rhannam
    Elsevier Foundation Partnerships Manager, Elsevier, Netherlands

    Maha Rhannam is the Partnerships Manager at the Elsevier Foundation, where she has spent over six years supporting the Foundation's programs in inclusive research and inclusive health. She holds a Master's in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and a Bachelor's in International Studies from Al Akhawayn University (Morocco). Before joining Elsevier, she worked as a Sustainability Analyst conducting ESG risk assessments and as a research assistant on UNICEF-funded studies on gender and education in Africa. She grew up in Morocco and is based in The Hague.

    1789730931-e7341003da9fc415 Tim Baker
    Associate Professor and Critical Care Physician, and Anesthesiologist, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzania) and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Tanzania

    Dr. Tim Baker is an Associate Professor, Critical Care Physician, and Anesthesiologist with over 20 years of experience in global critical care research, clinical practice, and health systems strengthening. His work focuses on developing and scaling health system innovations, particularly Essential Emergency and Critical Care, to improve outcomes for critically ill patients. Dr. Baker leads international collaborative research and capacity-building programmes, has positions at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzania) and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and has worked with WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and EECC Global.

    1790236403-592b4d64ce407867 Karima Khalid
    Lecturer and Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Tanzania

    Dr. Karima Khalid is a Lecturer and Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (Tanzania). She is a leading critical care expert with over 15 years of experience in clinical care, health systems research, policy engagement, and capacity building, and is actively involved in several WHO and global critical care initiatives.

    1788281032-a8db21262f8b97a5 Cristina Fernandez Turienzo
    Senior Research Fellow in Maternal, Child and Adolescent health, PI, King’s College London, UK

    Cristina Fernandez Turienzo is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London (UK). A nurse, midwife, and public health practitioner, she has led maternal, child, and adolescent health research, with expertise in clinical trials of complex interventions and innovations, implementation science, health systems and policy, systematic reviews, data science, and mixed-methods research to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequities in the UK and globally. Her collaborative work has informed national and international guidelines and policy. She is also a co-founder of the UK Chagas Hub and a Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellow.

    1788281226-c8c5d4f32c06c64c Mangenda Kamara
    2YoungLives Co-Founder and gender expert, University of Sierra Leone & Lifeline Nehemiah Projects, Sierra Leone

    Mangenda is a teacher and gender expert leading the 2YoungLives programme at Lifeline Nehemiah Projects and working as a Research Fellow at Welbodi Partnership in Sierra Leone. Having had an adolescent pregnancy herself, she is passionate about supporting girls and ensuring their voices shape research and services. She co-founded 2YoungLives with Lucy November and has extensive experience in gender, adolescent health, and community-based research. Her PhD was awarded in 2025 and used photovoice with 2YoungLives girls to document their experiences, highlighting family rejection, social stigma and fear of seeking healthcare, as well as the strength they found through peer support, mentoring and community.

    1788281372-0d6edcbd8d5b0a27 Serene Yoong
    Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Deakin Centre for Global Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Deakin University, Australia

    Serene Yoong is an Associate Professor of Implementation Science at Deakin University (Australia), where she is Co-Director of the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE) and leads the Dynamic Implementation Research Group. Her research focuses on adaptive, systems-informed approaches to translating evidence into policy and practice, with a particular focus on developing equitable methods for underserved communities. She has led implementation trials and methodological research across early childhood, school, and rural and remote communities, advancing approaches to designing and adapting implementation strategies to local contexts. Her research has informed global tobacco policy through collaborations with the World Health Organization and supported national scale-up of evidence-based nutrition guidelines across Australian early childhood services. She is a Chief Investigator on more than $30 million in competitive research funding, and author of more than 270 peer-reviewed publications.

    1788281483-d82ba63aaa40b985 Anna Chapman
    Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia

    Anna Chapman is a Senior Research Fellow and implementation scientist at Deakin University (Australia), where she co-leads the Implementation Science Unit within the Faculty of Health. Her research focuses on implementation science and health services research, with a particular emphasis on translating evidence into practice to improve healthcare quality, access, and equity. She has led and contributed to research across diverse healthcare settings, with particular expertise in regional, rural, and remote health services. She provides implementation science leadership across major national and regional programs, including the $4.9 million MRFF-funded Equitable Cancer Outcomes Across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA) Trial. Her research has informed policy, clinical guidelines, and models of care, and she leads implementation science capability building across Deakin University and partner health services. She is a Chief Investigator on over $14 million in competitive research funding.

    1788783654-e10fef9fc2a3462f Presented in partnership with
    The Elsevier Foundation


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