Dr. Sanne Peters is a Senior Research Fellow in Implementation Science.
She started her research career in Melbourne, at the Royal Children’s Hospital Education Institute in 2013. It was there that she was first able to pursue her interest in the health and education nexus. Sanne’s PhD research explored strategies aimed at improving knowledge translation in the training of general practitioners at the University of Leuven, in Belgium. During her postdoctoral work in Belgium and as Chair of the Implementation Working Group of the Guidelines International Network, Sanne has been facilitating bottom-up behaviour change processes that aim to increase the uptake of evidence-based clinical guidelines into practice.
At the University of Melbourne, Sanne works as implementation scientist on multiple projects ranging from paediatric oncofertility to infection prevention and control in residential aged care. Her work aims to address the barriers that slow or halt the uptake of proven health interventions and to identify the most effective ways to support improvements in healthcare practice.