Sally Fowler-Davis is an associate professor of the Department of Allied Health Professions, Anglia Ruskin University. She is also a registered occupational therapist and has worked clinically and in leadership roles and in the policy context to promote and sustain best practices in allied health professions, with particular interest in clinical academic careers and using research practices to drive evidence-based transformation. She received a Msc in Education from University of Leeds and a PhD in Business Administration from Sheffield Hallam University, in 1995 and 2010, respectively. Her current role is another joint position with East Suffolk, North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), with the aim of sustaining research development to benefit patient populations. Her expertise is in organisational and implementation research using ethnographic and participatory methods to engage communities of practitioners, patients and wider communities in the planning, processing and evaluation of health improvements. With a strong track record in studies involving older adults, her current funded research is associated with cognitive frailty and environmental risk factors (BBSRC/MRC), adapting and applying machine learning and robotics to the home and lifestyle of older people (EPSRC/UKRI), and international projects that focus on climate change and planetary health interventions (Global Challenge Research Fund).