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Monika Martens (PhD) is a public health scientist with a passion for global health, social improvement, reciprocal learning, and transdisciplinary work. She is fond of applying theory, (co-)creating conceptual frameworks and combining them with impactful, applied research that is useful for policy and practice. She has been conducting research in various EU-funded projects on : - applying complexity and systems thinking to the evaluation of the scale-up of integrated (NCD) care in three diverse health systems via policy dialogues and evidence-informed roadmaps; which included context analysis, stakeholder mapping, realist theory elicitation, process evaluations, and various dissemination events (scuby.eu) - monitoring and evaluating the implementation of pilots creating integrated care pathways across Europe (JACARDI.eu) - realist (theory-driven) evaluation on youth co-creation in the development and implementation of (mental) health interventions in diverse international urban settings (cities-rise.org/yipee and yopa-project.eu). In short, her passion lies at the intersection of realist, policy, and participatory research—bringing these perspectives into dialogue and weaving them together.