Sam is an early-career implementation science researcher currently lecturing into the Master of Public Health at the CQU Melbourne Campus with a keen interest on ensuring the best available evidence is implemented in public health. He currently holds a 2024 CQUniversity Internal Research Grant titled ‘Stepping Up to Scale: increasing system integration and sustainability of the 10,000 Steps Program’. Sam's PhD was completed at Deakin University and focused on the implementation and scale up process for a statewide physical activity intervention in schools before moving to the National Preventive Health Taskforce as a policy officer in the Department of Health. Sam's most recent work at Orygen / University of Melbourne Centre for Youth Mental Health in the Knowledge Translation division focussed on developing, implementing and evaluating evidence-informed and stakeholder-based models of care.