Annette Boaz joined King’s from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she was Professor of Health and Social Care Policy in the Department of Health Services Research and Policy. She has more than 25 years of experience in supporting the use of evidence across a range of policy domains. She was part of one of the largest UK investments in the evidence use landscape, the ESRC Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice and a Founding Editor of the Journal Evidence & Policy. She has undertaken an international leadership role in promoting the use of evidence, recently publishing a new book on evidence use ‘What Works Now’ and co-leading Transforming Evidence with Kathryn Oliver. At King’s she is working with colleagues to launch a brand-new initiative: The Metascience and Evidence Systems Hub (MESH).

Annette has a longstanding interest in supporting the use of research in the health and social care sectors and has led an NIHR funded study setting up and evaluating innovative research practice partnerships between care homes and universities. She is part of the cross King's Better Health and Care Hub and is also a co-applicant in the NIHR CARES-Well workforce partnership. She is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Higher Education Academy. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator and is the Chair of the NIHR Policy Research Programme funding committee. She is also a member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College. She has completed an ESRC funded fellowship based in the Government Office for Science and worked in the Department of Health and Social Care.

Annette is on Bluesky.

Annette Boaz: ORCID iD | King's Research Profile | Posts by Prof Boaz on the Unit blog

PhD students

• Craig Ward (KCL)
• Victoria Grimwood (KCL)
• Dan Timariu (KCL)
• Carolin Hess (KCL)
• Rachel Abudu (LSHTM)
• Helen Blundell (Kingston)