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Research evidence, citizen values & stakeholder insights to strengthen health & social systems and get the right programs & services to those who need them. www.mcmasterforum.org
In a recent webinar hosted by NEDtP, Eastern Mediterranean Region, @lavisjn.bsky.social shared how ESIC will transform how we learn from other countries and create a step-change improvement in how we produce and use evidence synthesis www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76z...
@arashidian.bsky.social @who.int
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The newly launched Evidence Synthesis Network for Canada to Support Pandemic Planning and Response will allow us to continue to provide evidence to inform pandemic planning and response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...
07.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
These are exciting times for those engaged in providing timely, demand-driven evidence synthesis & support. In a recent webinar, @lavisjn.bsky.social shared how ESIC will transform how we produce & use evidence synthesis www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76z...
@arashidian.bsky.social @who.int
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We will partner with 20+ evidence-synthesis teams from across Canada, experts, as well as citizen- and Indigenous-advisors to inform and support Canada’s pandemic planning and response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...
02.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map of Canada with a network grid overlaid on it
Since 2020, we have been leading efforts to build networks to address urgent issues related to pandemic planning & response with robust & rapid evidence syntheses. A newly funded McMaster Forum-led network will support Canada’s pandemic planning & response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...
29.09.2025 12:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map of Canada overlaid with a representation of a network
A newly funded McMaster Health Forum-led network will support Canada’s pandemic planning and response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...
26.09.2025 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Map of Canada with an overlay of a network and nodes
The newly launched Evidence Synthesis Network for Canada to Support Pandemic Planning and Response will allow us to continue to provide evidence to inform responses to emerging threats, and areas that require continued planning and responses www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...
23.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today, MoH Marjorie Michel, announced an investment of nearly $20 million to support 7 research platforms to unite researchers from across the country to maintain Canada’s pandemic readiness, improve surveillance systems, and support evidence-based decision-making www.canada.ca/en/institute...
23.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Annemarie Hou, Executive Director of UN Partnerships and John Lavis, ESIC Advisor at Wellcome
At yesterday's #UNGA event, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, alongside fellow members of the ESIC Funders Interest Group, announced a near doubling of commitments to ESIC, bringing the total to US$126 million unpartnerships.un.org/press-center...
22.09.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We’re continuing to lead and grow a network of evidence synthesis teams across Canada, which allows us and our network to collectively go further and faster in supporting the use of evidence in policy decision making,” said @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMB6...
18.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Using evidence to tackle health and social challenges
In a recent interview, @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social described how the Forum undertakes a “living approach to evidence synthesis,” which allows for routine updating when a field is moving quickly and for incorporating enhancements to scope, methods and future versions ow.ly/w1On50WlQz6
07.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Podcast on using evidence to tackle health and social challenges
“We’re one of the only groups who, in addition to producing full evidence syntheses and rapid syntheses, commit to conducting what we call ‘ultra-rapid evidence syntheses’ in as little as days,” explained @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social in a recent interview healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...
30.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"We want to enthusiastically embrace and lead (where we can) the changes that have been prioritized by ESIC," shared @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social youtu.be/h0i2GKW_9vA
29.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Social Systems Evidence
The Global SDG Synthesis Coalition – a UN Development Program initiative – recently highlighted Social Systems Evidence as a key source in their Planet Pillar scoping review. Learn more in our latest newsletter ow.ly/BsCQ50WlQUK
24.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Podcast on using evidence to tackle health and social challenges
“We work closely with decision makers, including citizens, to ensure that what is produced will be contextualized in the ways needed to directly inform the policy challenges faced,” explained @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social in a recent interview healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...
23.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
.@lavisjn.bsky.social, Director of the McMaster Health Forum, shares insights into what excites him about the road ahead, now that the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative’s Cape Town consensus meeting is over youtu.be/jTrRvjuwODw
22.07.2025 13:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shares insights on how the outcomes from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative will change the work of the McMaster Health Forum youtu.be/h0i2GKW_9vA
21.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a recent interview, @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shared insights about how the Forum works to get the right programs, services and products to those who need them. “The Forum is focused on generating action to address policy issues faced by decision makers.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMB6...
17.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In a recent interview, @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shared insights about how the Forum works to get the right programs, services and products to those who need them. “The Forum is focused on generating action to address policy issues faced by decision makers.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMB6...
15.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@lavisjn.bsky.social, Director of the McMaster Health Forum, shares some key insights from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative’s Cape Town consensus meeting youtu.be/NaTzlGA_l6I
14.07.2025 12:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What is the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative and what does it hope to achieve? @lavisjn.bsky.social provides an overview of the initiative youtu.be/BEIJn2ZUpZI
10.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Video podcast with Michael Wilson and Paul O'Byrne
In a recent interview with Paul O'Byrne (Dean and Vice-President, @machealthsci.bsky.social), @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shared insights about how our team supports the use of the best-available evidence in decision-making about pressing policy challenges
healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...
Using evidence to tackle health and social challenges - video podcast
Paul O’Byrne, McMaster's dean and vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Michael Wilson, the Forum's Scientific Director and HEI associate professor, discuss using evidence to tackle health and social challenges healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...
18.06.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Arrows converging
In the past 2 years we produced, or coordinated the production with our partners, 50+ evidence syntheses, including: 13 rapid syntheses, 16 living evidence synthesis updates, 12 rapid evidence profiles & 10 living evidence profile updates.
Learn more newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-D0823D4D...
Arrows converging
Over the past 2 years, we & a number of our fellow evidence-synthesis teams across Canada have responded to urgent requests with rapid evidence syntheses on a range of public health topics to inform emergency planning & response activities. Learn more newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-D0823D4D...
22.05.2025 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Over the past two years, the Forum has provided timely, demand-driven evidence support to inform the Public Health Agency of Canada’s advisory and decision-making processes. Learn more >> newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-D0823D4D...
14.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Global Skills Opportunity
Through Global Skills Opportunity, the Forum engaged 18 undergraduate students from April 2021 to March 2025. To learn more about the experiences of the Forum’s GSO students, we encourage you to watch their webinars www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...
08.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interdisciplinary primary-care teams offer a promising approach to provide improved access to comprehensive patient-centred care. Learn more in our rapid synthesis www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/pro...
29.04.2025 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No smoking or vaping sign
Tobacco control policies such as price and tax strategies, graphic health warnings, and smoke-free spaces are valuable policy tools for reducing exposure to tobacco products and second-hand smoke. Learn more in our #RapidSynthesis www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/pro...
22.04.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Virtual nano course on enabling learning health systems
The Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit and McMaster Health Forum, in partnership with Trillium Health Partners, are offering two more 90-minute nano courses that reflect an updated approach to supporting learning health systems. Register now surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/i...
15.04.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
