Chiara Dall'ora

Chiara Dall’Ora is an Associate Professor who leads the Health Workforce & Systems theme in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton and serves as Co Theme Lead for the NIHR ARC Wessex Data and Technology theme. A registered nurse, she qualified in Italy at the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca. Chiara’s research programme examines health workforce wellbeing and performance, with a particular focus on work hours, shift patterns, and workforce configuration. She specialises in analysing routinely collected workforce data from rostering systems to generate actionable insights that improve staff experience, retention, and care quality. Her work informs practical changes to scheduling and deployment that support sustainable nursing teams.

Laura-Maria Peltonen
 

Dr Laura-Maria Peltonen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Health Management at the University of Eastern Finland and the Department of Nursing Science at the University of Turku in Finland. She also serves as Visiting Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, UK.
Her research focuses on the responsible and human-centred integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, with particular emphasis on its social, legal and ethical implications. She conducts clinical evaluation research to assess the impact of digital health solutions on patient, service and workforce outcomes. Dr Peltonen is a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science (FEANS) and a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), of which she is President-Elect. She serves as Institutional Members Officer for the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and Chair of the EFMI Nursing Informatics Working Group. Her work bridges research, policy and practice, aiming to ensure that nurses are actively involved in designing and implementing AI solutions that enhance quality, equity, and safety in care.

Jos M. Latour
 

Professor Jos Latour is Professor of Clinical Nursing at the University of Plymouth, UK, and an internationally recognised clinical academic in adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care. His research focuses on human‑centred care and improving outcomes and experiences of patients, families and healthcare professionals. He combines this with a clinical academic role at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, where he is the director of the Clinical School to strengthen research capacity among nurses and allied health professionals. His research and clinical academic leadership directly supports ENDA’s focus on strategic nurse leadership and future‑oriented nursing services. Collectively, his work strengthens future sustainable healthcare by improving outcomes and the use of resources for patients, families and staff.

The vision of Jos is to empower all healthcare stakeholders by strengthening communication and co‑designing care to supports care models that transform nursing services to be more efficient and sustainable over time. This includes nurses’ well‑being and supportive team cultures, which are essential to retaining the workforce and sustaining quality in resource‑constrained healthcare systems.

He says: I am not a machine, I am human!

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Greta Westwood
 

Greta has served as Chief Executive Officer of the Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) since September 2019. Under her leadership, the Foundation has grown from supporting a small number of nurses and midwives to reaching almost 250,000 individuals annually since 2022. Through its leadership development programmes, FNF equips nurses and midwives with the confidence, capability and influence to stay, lead, thrive and drive transformative change across health and care systems. Since 2023, FNF now supports global nursing and midwifery leaders. 

She was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty The Queen in the 2021 New Year Honours. 

Greta’s career spans nearly five decades in senior roles across healthcare, higher education and the charity sector. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director within a Group NHS England organisation in the South-East. 

Greta is a Registered Nurse, Florence Nightingale Foundation Alumna (2012 Leadership Scholar), has a PhD in Nursing (2010), and is Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Elli Valla

Dr Elli Valla is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Health Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). She holds a PhD in Computer Science, with a background in Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics. Her research focuses on applied machine learning in healthcare, spanning the full path from model development to clinical deployment. Her work includes explainable deep learning for neurological diagnostics, computer vision and wearable sensors for rehabilitation assessment, and the validation of large language models in clinical low-resource languages. She teaches Deep Learning in Healthcare at TalTech and delivers AI literacy training to clinicians, nurses and educators across Estonian hospitals and health colleges. Her work bridges technical AI research and clinical practice, with a particular interest in what it takes for AI to move from promising pilot to safe, useful everyday care.