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Virginia McKay is an Assistant Professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. With a PhD in public health, her research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based interventions to prevent and treat infectious diseases. She is interested particularly in the sustainability of evidence-based interventions and the discontinuation of interventions that are not effective. For more complex implementation research questions, her research explores the application of systems science principles and methods.

Alexandra Morshed is assistant professor at the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Health Education Sciences at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She conducts research at intersection of chronic disease prevention, evidence translation, and systems science. She is an implementation scientist with more than 10 years of experience in weight-related chronic disease prevention, primarily focused on implementing interventions with populations experiencing health disparities, policy adoption, and capacity building and knowledge expansion in implementation science.