Dr. Bacon is a behavioural scientist interested developing tailored interventions to help positively change high-risk behaviours. Most of his work has focused on health behaviours (e.g., physical activity, diet, weight management, medication adherence) and has targeted health-related outcomes. Currently, Dr. Bacon is the FRQS co-Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health for Health Behaviour Change and the CIHR SPOR Chair in Innovative, Patient-Oriented, Behavioural Clinical Trials. Dr. Bacon is co-director of the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, and co-leads the International Behavioural Trials Network and the CIHR funded Canadian Behavioural Interventions and Trials Network.

Linda S. Pagani was a nurse at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital for a decade before transitioning to academia in 1993. She has been Professor of psycho-education and hospital researcher for more than three decades at the Université de Montréal. Internationally respected for her contributions to mental health, lifestyle medicine, and social and public health policy in human development, her scientific publications focus on the risk and protective factors influencing human development. Her unique career has addressed a variety of themes from poverty to academic success.

John supports efforts to address health and broader societal challenges using the best-available research evidence and experiences and insights from citizens, professionals, organizational leaders, and government policymakers. He is the Director of the McMaster Health Forum, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy, and co-lead of Rapid-Improvement Support and Exchange (RISE). He is an advisor to the Wellcome Trust on its Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative. He is a Professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at McMaster University and the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Support Systems. He led the development of the ‘SHOW ME the evidence’ features of an approach to reliably deliver research evidence to those who need it, he was co-lead of and lead report writer for the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges, and he was co-lead of the COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END).

Alex is a User Experience and Behavioural Design Strategist who helps companies apply leading edge behavioural science and UX methodologies to the design of solutions in healthcare and wellness. His background is in digital health, working for Intel, NHS Lothian and the University of Edinburgh, designing and evaluating healthcare technologies with patients and physicians in home and clinical settings. His particular areas of expertise include user research and experience strategy, usability testing, eye tracking and ethnographic research, information architecture, user experience and service design.