Beryl Leach

Beryl Leach, MPH, is the Manager, Scientific Programs, at the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research, where she is responsible for the competitive research grants, scholarships and fellowships. She brings decades of experience in strengthening research systems and increasing evidence and evidence uptake and use in Africa and China in public health and ecological and climate sciences. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a Global Excellence and Stature Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa in recognition of her contributions to increasing evidence-informed decision-making, filling research gaps, promoting more integrated and interdisciplinary mixed-method research, and promoting improved methodologies for ensuring equity, gender equality and substantive stakeholder inclusion in research and evaluation. Her latest research focused on applying equity and gender lenses to the role of artificial intelligence in systematic review and evidence gap map met