A New Blueprint for Brain Health

Sanjeev Sridharan is Professor of Health Policy Evaluation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously he was the Country Lead, Learning Systems and Systems Evaluation at the India Country Office of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to this position, Sanjeev was Director of the Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions at St. Michaels Hospital and Associate Professor at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.   He is a former associate editor of the American Journal of Evaluation and has been on boards of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, New Directions for Evaluation and Evaluation and Program Planning.

Dr. Jordan Antflick is the Director, Integrated Discovery at the Ontario Brain Institute, a not-for-profit world leader in brain research, commercialization and care. In this role, Jordan provides leadership on the Institute’s communication, patient engagement, knowledge translation, and evaluation activities. Before joining OBI, he earned an Honours BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience studying cerebellar neurochemistry. With publications in the fields of neuroscience, patient engagement, and health promotion, Jordan applies his varied research background to his current role where he aims to make research relevant to various audiences inside and outside of science.

Dr. Kaela Scott is a Knowledge Translation & Evaluation Specialist at the Ontario Brain Institute, a not-for-profit world leader in brain research, commercialization, and care. In this role, Kaela works with community groups and integrated discovery research programs to build capacity for knowledge translation and evaluation and elevate the role of community care. Before joining OBI, she worked in the non-profit sector ensuring the experiences and perspectives of persons with lived experience were shared to inform policymaking. Kaela has a PhD in Neuroscience from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University.

April Nakaima is a Senior Evaluator at The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions. She has co-led evaluations of poverty reduction initiatives, brain health community initiatives, and dance activity health promotion. April has co-edited volumes in Evaluation and Program Planning on building evaluation capacity, New Directions for Evaluation on addressing health inequities in China and Canada, and a volume in production on assumptions in theories of change, building upon the work of John Mayne.