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Special Session "Guidelines meet shared decision making. Happy ever after?"
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Elwyn, Alper, Trevena, Agoritsas
Evidence-based medicine became relevant to all when guidelines were born and given special status, raising the stakes on how to summarise evidence from population-based research. But clearly, patients are not populations, they have quirks, opinions, stories to tell and preferences that cannot be…
Special Session A dialog with funders: What approaches and activities ensure research achieves its expected impact?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Weiss, Green, Littler, Reeder, Kinn, Kern
[Old title: Global funding: Multi-agency approaches to knowledge translation/research uptake into action or bringing the research community into the policy decision-making process]
Objectives:
Share how funders work to support evidence uptake so that it has an impact. Different approaches and…
Special Session A panoramic view of rapid reviews: Uses and perspectives from global collaborations and networks
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Garritty, King, Stevens, Soares-Weiser, Phillips, Norris, LAURENCE, Nussbaumer-Streit, Gartlehner, Akl
Purpose:
To exchange ideas about how rapid reviews have evolved as a useful information tool to support evidence-informed policy and practice.
Objectives:
Participants will have the opportunity for information sharing with rapid review producers, decision-makers and providers, and…
Special Session Access to research results for decision making
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Moorthy, Beller, Askie, Pienaar
This session is linked to Plenary 4: EVIDENCE IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD: The evidence, ethos and pathos. How scientists can engage, and influence the public, press and politicians
The current 2013 Declaration of Helsinki states that “Every research study involving human subjects must be registered in…
Special Session Addressing the global health workforce shortfall by 2030: The need for intersectoral research evidence
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Kredo, Diallo, De Haan
The High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, in its 2016 report “Working for Health and Growth – Investing in the health workforce”, makes the case for more and better investment in the health workforce, specifically to address the shortfall of 18 million health workers by…
Special Session Climate change in focus: Incorporating evidence synthesis methodology into environmental decision making
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Stewart, Johansson, Tannous, Haddaway
This session is linked to Plenary 3: EVIDENCE FOR EMERGING CRISES: How international collaboration and innovation can solve global humanitarian crises, such as Ebola
The Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, Johannesburg, invites researchers, decision makers, and practitioners who work in the…
Special Session Evidence and gap maps: A systematic approach to scoping
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
White, Saran, Shlonsky, Snilstveit, Hellberg
Target audience:
Researchers conducting scoping studies, systematic reviews and/or impact evaluations, and users wanting to understand approaches to evidence mapping. The session will also be useful for individuals and organisation which propagate evidence-based policy agenda. The session is…
Special Session Evidence for social and economic policy
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
White, Sabi, Byamugisha, Goldman, Musyoka
This session is linked to Plenary 1: EVIDENCE FOR AFRICA: How evidence is changing communities across one continent
Both researchers and policy makers will interested in this session. It is likely that most African participants will attend this session, but those from elsewhere interested in…
Special Session Evidence matters: Examples of evidence-based decision making in humanitarian emergencies and how it can be improved
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Allen, Clarke, Jansen
This session is linked to Plenary 3: EVIDENCE FOR EMERGING CRISES: How international collaboration and innovation can solve global humanitarian crises, such as Ebola
Target audience:
Those interested in an evidence-based approach to humanitarian action in disasters and other emergencies,…
Special Session Evidence synthesis for health policy and systems: Approaches, challenges and stakeholder engagement
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Langlois, Daniels, Akl, Dayal, Sudhakar, Odendaal, El-Jardali, Lotfi, Moloi
Target audience
Researchers and policymakersStakeholders actively engaged in:Health systems decision-making and policymaking;Supporting health systems decision makers and policy makers through evidence;Conducting evidence syntheses relevant to health policy and systems.Researchers and policy…
Special Session Evidence to action: Start with the action
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Garner, Young, Wilson, Okebe, Jullien, Nischal, Kashangura
This session is linked to Plenary 1: EVIDENCE FOR AFRICA: How evidence is changing communities across one continent
How to ensure that research and evidence synthesis results make a difference?
The Consortium for Effective Health Care, going back 20 years, has a single performance indicator…
Special Session Evidence-based education policy and practice: Sharing global experiences
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
White, Nuga Deliwe, Connolly, Snilstveit
Both researchers and policy makers will interested in this session. It will be one of the main education sessions at the Summit, so should attract all those with an interest in education. But it will be of interest to anyone with an interest in how evidence-based policy is working around the world…
Special Session Evidence-informed policy making within and beyond health: Lessons learnt from initiatives using different forms of engagement
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Langlois, Stewart, Young, Gilson, Mijumbi, Dayal, El-Jardali, Ongolo-Zogo
This session is linked to Plenary 1: EVIDENCE FOR AFRICA: How evidence is changing communities across one continent
Developing policy and implementing it is complex. To inform the decision-making process, the actors need reliable research evidence which is fit for purpose. Engagement between…
Special Session Facilitating evidence-informed decisions about complex interventions
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Norris, Petticrew, Rehfuess, Higgins, Noyes, Montgomery
This session will benefit policy makers, guideline developers and academics who work in the field of systematic reviews and research synthesis, guideline development and implementation. This session is aimed at participants with any level of knowledge.
Objectives:
to present new concepts and…
Special Session From living systematic reviews to living recommendations
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Synnot, Turner, Mavergames, Elliott, Vandvik, Coello, Pardo Hernandez, MacLehose, Hilton, Akl, Agoritsas, Kuijpers, Munn, Brandt
Objectives:
Participants will learn about concurrent developments with living systematic reviews (LSRs) and living guidelines, and how the two can be integrated within the context of the new evidence ecosystem.
Description:
The idea that evidence synthesis and related products, such as…
Special Session From reviews to guidelines and point-of-care evidence use
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Rada, Kuijpers, Brandt
This session is linked to Plenary 2: BREAKING DOWN THE SILOS: Digital and trustworthy evidence ecosystem
Objectives:
To increase participants’ understanding of how data from systematic reviews can be used in guidelines, in a way that increases transparency, efficiency and facilitates updates.To…
Special Session Global ageing: Defining the evidence agenda. Towards 2020, the WHO decade of Healthy Ageing: A Cochrane-Campbell response
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Marcus, Welch, Howe, White
With life expectancy set to reach 90 in many countries we need to set agenda for producing, synthesising and disseminating evidence that will drive the research needed to address the healthcare, social needs and inequalities of an increasingly older population.
This special session will provide an…
Special Session Global evidence, local needs: Lessons from practical philosophy about using different knowledge
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Chandler, Zuiderent-Jerak, Greenhalgh, Kyamanywa , Shaw, Thomas, Pardo Turriago , Williamson, Wieringa
Target audience: Guideline and systematic review developers; users of guidelines and systematic reviews, including practitioners and policy makers.
Level of knowledge required is basic – a basic understanding of evidence-based practice is needed, no prior knowledge of philosophy is required. …
Special Session How can the impacts of dissemination bias in qualitative research be detected in the context of qualitative evidence syntheses? Identifying new approaches
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Lewin, Munthe-Kaas, Toews, Noyes, Meerpohl, Pardo-Hernandez
Objectives:
To discuss how the impacts of dissemination bias in qualitative research might be detected in the context of qualitative evidence syntheses. To explore how approaches for detecting these impacts might be tested.Description:
Dissemination bias (also called publication bias) in…
Special Session Impact and evaluation of research: Perspectives from funders and users of research
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Kupfer, Aslanyan
Length of session:
90 minutes - 45 minutes panel presentations, the remaining 45 mins will be dedicated to questions from the audience to identify salient messages and ideas that will be followed up by ESSENCE in its interaction with member agencies and beyond.
Description:
The panel is…