Dr Tim Chadborn

Dr Tim Chadborn is part-time Joint Head of Behavioural Insights and Evaluation Lead in the Department of Health and Social Care. He also works part-time in the World Health Organisation Behavioural Insights team and has recently worked on the COVID response in the Joint Biosecurity Centre and on systems thinking and evaluation at the Cabinet Office. With over 25 years of experience in health he has previously worked in the UK with Public Health England and the Health Protection Agency and internationally in a partnership between Harvard University and the Ministry of Health in Botswana and with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Zambia. Tim has recently been the President of the UK Evaluation Society, co-organiser of the OECD-hosted network of international government behavioural scientists, and member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group for Behavioural Insight and Sciences.

Dr Tim Chadborn will share his perspectives of the current and future role of a transdisciplinary approach to behavioural science in public health policy and practice. This spans topics from CVD to CDH (commercial determinants of health), from public to clinician behaviour change, from RCTs and DCEs to innovative evidence synthesis methods, and from simplicity to complexity. He will describe the types of behavioural science work that is done in public health organisations from policy advice to research. He will talk about the development of infrastructure such as organisations, funding and partnerships that are so valuable for behavioural science to have an impact and the types of research that policymakers find most useful. He’ll cover some of his areas of interest and opportunities for research and evaluation. He’ll do his best not to talk too much and leave plenty of time for discussion!