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Special Session Implementation and translation frameworks in low- and middle-income countries, international collaboration
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Jordan, Lockwood, Ronalds, Okwen, Zhou
Objectives:
Diverse theories and approaches exist for the implementation of evidence in practice. These frameworks for knowledge translation are predominantly described and delivered in developed countries. The Global Evidence Summit offers an opportunity to bring together individuals and…
Special Session Implementation, improved care and back again
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Delvaux, Leng, Lockwood, Kelley, Kunnamo
This session is linked to Plenary 2: BREAKING DOWN THE SILOS: Digital and trustworthy evidence ecosystem
Objectives:
Provide insight into how evidence implemented by targeted clinical decision support (CDS) connects recommended actions to measured outcomes, how selecting effective interventions…
Special Session Increasing value and reducing waste in research: Towards an evidence-based research approach
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Beller, Blaine, Westmore, Yost, Lund, Lund, Bogh Juhl
Objectives:
The aim of this session is to further initiatives towards reducing waste in research, such as the REWARD Alliance and the EBRNetwork. More specifically:
Participants will enhance their knowledge and understanding of research waste and evidence-based research. Participants will…
Special Session Introducing Cochrane Global Mental Health: Improving the impact of Cochrane Mental Health in low- and middle-income countries
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Barbui, Churchill
Objectives:
This session is intended as an introduction to Cochrane Global Mental Health and will provide an opportunity for participants to engage in our work.
Description:
The session will promote the activities of Cochrane Global Mental Health (Cochrane GMH). The current plans of GMH will be…
Special Session Involving people in society and healthcare
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Morley, Marshall, Schaeffer, White, Lytvyn
Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
gain an overview of different approaches to PPI the wide range of health and social research and policy settings; contribute to the discussion of similarities and differences in approaches, exploring issues of language, culture, values, goals and other…
Special Session Mapping the evidence: Different approaches to evidence mapping across disciplines
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Haddaway, Cheng, Snilstveit, Miake-Lye, Randall
Target audience:
This session will be aimed at stakeholders with evidence needs (policy and practice decision makers), researchers with an interest in synthesis (reviewers), and research funders. Systematic mapping methods are of broad interest to a wide range of stakeholders because of their…
Special Session New approaches to enhance evidence use through continued technical support and collaboration with policy makers and senior officials
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Sherry, Brandes
Objectives:
This special session aims: to describe novel approaches for evidence translation and evidence use for capacity building at local, national and international levels; to solicit stakeholder feedback on newly developed approaches; and;,to discuss the value of developing implementation…
Special Session Overcoming barriers to implementing an evidence-based approach in the humanitarian sector
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Allen, Clarke
Objectives:
Raise the profile of the use of robust evidence in the humanitarian sector. Highlight barriers towards using evidence in the humanitarian sector. Debate solutions to ensure greater use of evidence in the humanitarian sector. Publish a commentary about improving the use of evidence in…
Special Session Rapid reviews to strengthen health policy and systems
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Tricco, Langlois, Straus, King, Oliver, Daniels, Mijumbi-Deve, Morankar, Cloete, El-Jardali, Akl, Anthony, M Ashoor, Courvoisier, Kelly, Odendaal, Pham
The specific learning objectives are to:
Identify different rapid review methods that can be used in various contexts for health policy and systems research.Discuss the usefulness of rapid reviews for providing actionable and relevant evidence to make informed decisions about health policy and…
Special Session Refugee crisis in health and society
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Akl, Jomaa, El-Jardali, Pottie
This session is linked to Plenary 3: EVIDENCE FOR EMERGING CRISES: How international collaboration and innovation can solve global humanitarian crises, such as Ebola
Description:
1-Coordination of health services for refugees: engaging stakeholders in the process
Presenter: Dr. Fadi El-Jardali…
Special Session Research synthesis priorities and guideline development: Linking evidence synthesis production to evidence needs
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
De Haan, Koster, Santesso
Guideline developers across the world and across health and clinical disciplines often find it challenging to obtain relevant evidence synthesis to produce guidelines in a timely and high quality manner. While some guideline developers maintain close relations with systematic review groups that can…
Special Session Rigorous and relevant systematic reviews: Lessons learned from mixed-methods approaches in international development
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Bhavsar, Tsoli, de Buck, de Buck, Oya, Snilstveit
Target audience:
This special session will be open to all Summit participants. In particular, researchers, commissioners of systematic reviews and policy or programme decision makers working on topics of relevance to low- and middle-income countries will benefit from attending. It is desirable for…
Special Session Scientific journals and evidence: What does the future hold?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Groves, Laine, Vandvik
Objectives:
To challenge participants to consider what the ideal journal should be doing in 10 years’ time to provide reliable and truly usable evidence to help them improve health.
Description:
Introduction (5 minutes).Exercise 1 (10 minutes): Participants, in groups of 2-4 people, will…
Special Session Separating fact from fiction: Enhancing critical thinking to equip the next generation for the post-truth society
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Young, Nsangi, v Schalkwyk, Prasad
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
Important strides have been taken to get evidence-informed practices onto the agenda at international, regional, national…
Special Session Surfing, drowning or wiped out by big data: Which way for evidence synthesis?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Elliott, Thomas, Sim, Sterne, Moons, Leng
Data relevant to health are increasing - in volume, variety and velocity. These ‘big’ or ‘diverse’ data are also become more available and more usable, including individual participant data (IPD) from trials, data obtained from electronic medical records (EMRs), administrative data and associated…
Special Session Telling good stories: A workshop on the art of persuasion
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Greenhalgh
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
Objectives:
To explore how the principles of rhetoric and persuasion introduced in the plenary ‘Evidence in a Post-Truth…
Special Session The inefficiency of isolation: Why evidence providers and evidence synthesisers can break out of their silos
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Elliott, Noel-Storr, Gardner, Westmore, Sim, Sharples, Treweek
This session is linked to Plenary 2: BREAKING DOWN THE SILOS: Digital and trustworthy evidence ecosystem
Objectives:
To increase participants’ understanding of how changes to the way primary research is designed and shared can make synthesis more efficient. To highlight work under way to improve…
Special Session What can evidence-based education and healthcare learn from each other?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Oxman, Oliver, Sharples, Boruch
This session will cut across the four themes of the conference:
Evidence production: Abstracts concerning primary research production.Evidence synthesis: Abstracts concerning different forms of research synthesis: overviews, scoping reviews, systematic reviews, etc. Evidence tools: Abstracts…