Alison Kitson is recognised internationally as a leading research translation scientist, nurse leader and champion of improving fundamentals of nursing care research and practice. Her experience spans establishing national programs on standards of nursing care, supporting the development of national clinical guidelines and running a series of highly successful national clinical leadership programs in the UK while she was at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). She has also established an international network (the International Learning Collaborative, ILC) in collaboration with Green Templeton College University of Oxford and other leading organizations dedicated to the improvement of fundamental care across health and care systems globally. Alison has spent several years in executive and academic leadership roles in the UK before moving to Australia to take up the role of Head and Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Adelaide in 2009. During her time the school quadrupled in size and was one of the top performing nursing research groups in Australia. Between 2013-2015 Alison was in the role of Executive Director of Nursing at Central Adelaide Local Health Network (a joint appointment between the university and the health network), where she was responsible for the nursing innovation and reform agenda. In 2017 she was appointed inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. She established the Caring Futures Institute in 2019, the first research institute in Australia fully dedicated to the study of care and self-care solutions to today’s complex health challenges. Its research income in 2022 was $31 million.