Vanessa is a white settler with Portuguese roots, now living on Treaty 13 and Williams Treaty territory. She has a MSc and PhD in rehabilitation sciences (focus on pediatrics and knowledge translation). Currently, she is a CIHR Health Systems Impact Postdoctoral Fellow working with CanChild (McMaster University) and two child/family health organizations: Children's Treatment Network (in Ontario) and Rehabilitation Centre for Children (in Manitoba). She works with an incredible team of researchers, clinicians, and Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, to co-lead a program of work to explore equitable and culturally safer implementation of the 'F-words for Child Development' framework. She has experience teaching implementation science concepts and providing practical implementation support to child/family health organizations in Canada. Her interests include implementation equity considerations (throughout all stages), adaptations, understanding ‘fit’ of evidence-based practices, and change strategies and their functions. Vanessa also supports implementation-science related tasks with a Canadian national research network, Kids Brain Health Network.