Judith Smith took up post as Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham in 2015. This followed six years spent as Director of Policy at the Nuffield Trust in London. Judith has worked in health services research for almost 30 years and her work focuses on the organisation and management of primary care and general practice, integrated care, evaluation of new models of care, and organisational governance. Judith is Director of the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and Deputy Director of the NIHR’s Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) programme. She is also Trustee and Vice-Chair of Health Services Research UK, Expert Adviser on Primary Care to the Health Foundation, Senior Associate of the Nuffield Trust, and Director of Health Services Research within Birmingham Health Partners.