Webinar: Addressing confusion across the different types of the evidence synthesis: Introducing the Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative
September 1st. 1.15 PM – 2.15 PM (Norwegian time)
Language: English
Where: Zoom – Register here
There now exists a multitude of approaches, methods, and methodologies for evidence synthesis to answer a broad array of questions. Enabling researchers to ensure that they are undertaking the “right” evidence synthesis approach is critical to evidence-based healthcare. We have developed the first living Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy to classify and categorize the multitude of evidence synthesis approaches.
Professor Zachary Munn is the founding Director of Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI) in the School of Public Health at Adelaide University; Head of the Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative (ESTI); Founding Director of the Adelaide GRADE Centre; past-Chair of the Guidelines International Network (GIN) and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator. He is a systematic review, evidence implementation and guideline development methodologist.
Webinar: Making wider use of tacit and unconventional evidence sources in health policy and systems decision making: the spectrum approach and the ACE tool
September 28th. 10AM - 11AM (CEST, Norwegian time)
Language: English
Where: Zoom - Register here
Evidence-informed decision-making is often discussed in terms of research evidence, but real-world policy decisions draw on a much wider range of knowledge, including global evidence, local data, professional experience, community values, practical implementation knowledge and other unconventional evidence sources. This webinar introduces two tools for making use of a wider range of different evidence sources in health decision making:
• A spectrum approach for mapping evidence across two dimensions: from tacit to scientific evidence, and from global to local evidence.
• The ACE tool to help decision-makers appraise the strengths and limitations of unconventional evidence sources
Drawing on a range of examples, the presentations will show how these approaches can help researchers and decision-makers make evidence choices more explicit, identify gaps in the evidence base, use unconventional sources more effectively, and reflect on whose evidence is included or overlooked in health policy processes.
Dennis Waithaka is a health policy and systems researcher at the Health Economics Research Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya. His areas of interest include evidence-informed decision-making, priority setting, and health financing. His recent work in Kenya examines evidence use in vaccine policy decisions and how different forms of knowledge can support more inclusive and accountable health policy processes.
Simon Lewin is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); a Chief Specialist Scientist at the Health Systems Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council; and a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. His work is largely within the field of health systems research. Simon is a Co-lead for the Cochrane Person-Centred Care, Health Systems and Public Health Thematic Group.
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