About the event

Despite major investment by governments and health systems worldwide, many common safety and quality problems in health and care remain unresolved. This session focuses on the future of care and why it matters economically. High-quality care supports people’s dignity and wellbeing, while also strengthening the economy by improving health outcomes and reducing preventable harm.

This webinar is in partnership with the International Learning Collaborative (ILC)

Key Learning Objectives 

• Explain how a person-centred fundamental care perspective strengthens and reframes contemporary debates about the care economy at local, national and global levels.
• Analyse the role of care leadership in collectively influencing economic systems so that they better value, enable and sustain fundamental care.
• Identify practical strategies for embedding person-centred fundamental care ways of working into policy, practice and organisational decision-making to optimise population health and social wellbeing.

About the speakers

Professor Alison Kitson MACN

Alison Kitson MACN is an internationally recognised nursing leader, translational research scientist and innovator in transdisciplinary thought leadership.

She has held numerous executive leadership roles in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Most recently she has served as Inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences between 2017 and 2024, and Foundation Director of the Caring Futures Research Institute from 2019 -2024 at Flinders University, South Australia. Currently she is Chair of the International Learning Collaborative (ILC), a global not-for-profit membership organisation committed to improving person-centred fundamental care.

Alison is known globally for her work on developing, testing and refining the integrated Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services Framework (or i-PARIHS Framework). This implementation framework has been widely and successfully used to enable research evidence to be put into everyday practice in acute, sub-acute, aged care and community care settings. She has published over 300 peer reviewed articles in top nursing and translational science journals and is ranked in the top 2% of most cited researchers in her field in the world.

Her research interests continue to be in fundamental care, understanding care needs and care delivery across the life-course and transdisciplinary research leadership within the frame of complexity science. She has recently edited with colleagues a new book on research implementation called Navigating Knowledge Translation in Health and Care.

In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (AAHMS) and in 2022 was awarded a Distinguished Matthew Flinders Professorship from Flinders University. She has several international and Australian visiting professorships and honorary doctorates from Sweden and Denmark. In 2025 she was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Research Hall of Fame for her transformational research in person-centred fundamental care and knowledge translation.

Professor Tiffany Conroy FACN 

Professor Tiffany Conroy (RN, PhD) is a founding member and office bearer for the International Learning Collaborative, the global voice for fundamental care. Professor Conroy’s research expertise includes the fundamentals of nursing care; knowledge translation; evidence-based practice; and the methodology and conduct of systematic and scoping reviews. Her substantial and sustained research impact has local and international significance and has been cited over 3600 times. In 2024 and 2025 Professor Conroy was recognised in the World's Top 2% of Researchers by the Stanford University Global Rankings. Professor Conroy’s previous professional appointments include: Deputy Dean for Nursing Leadership and Innovation at Flinders University, and Director of Nursing and Midwifery Research for the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. Tiffany has led an internationally regarded team actively researching the influence of fundamental care delivery on patient outcomes. She is an experienced external facilitator for multi component interventions targeting mobility, nutrition and cognitive engagement for the prevention of hospital acquired delirium and mentors many leadership projects that are improving the delivery of fundamental care globally.

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