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Improving data sharing for global health research subject of CHEPA seminar
02 May 2012
Principles developed to promote and guide data sharing across the Global Health Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be the subject of the CHEPA monthly seminar on May 16, presented by Claudia Emerson, senior scientist at the Sandra Rotman Centre, University Health Network and University of Toronto, and adjunct assistant professor in philosophy at McMaster University.
Recently, there has been a ‘scaling up’ in efforts and commitment to promote data sharing in public health as funding agencies strive to maximize the value derived from research outputs. Despite these efforts, broad data sharing remains a challenge in many research domains, owing to technical barriers, claims of data ownership, and privacy concerns, amongst other reasons.
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Julia Abelson a presenter for AHRQ webinar on public engagement
08 Apr 2012
Julia Abelson, a faculty member with CHEPA and an adjunct faculty with the McMaster Health Forum, will share her expertise in the design and evaluation of methods to engage the public to inform health care decision-making during a webinar on April 19 at 3 p.m.
Abelson is one of four presenters in the webinar which has been organized by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Entitled Using Deliberative Methods to Engage the Public: How to design and implement an effective deliberative session, the webinar is designed to provide practical guidance for those interested in using deliberative methods for obtaining meaningful public input to inform their work.
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Priority-setting challenges for health system managers subject of CHEPA seminar
05 Apr 2012
A new framework developed to evaluate priority setting in low- and middle-income countries will be the subject of the CHEPA monthly seminar on April 18, presented by Lydia Kapiriri, assistant professor in McMaster’s Department of Health, Aging & Society.
Priority setting is one of the biggest challenges faced by health managers and policy-makers in low- and middle-income countries. The difficulty is compounded by the widening gap between health problems and the resources available to solve those problems, as well as the lack of credible evidence and clear approaches to priority setting.
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PLoS Medicine articles highlight need for improved research translation
13 Mar 2012
McMaster University’s John Lavis played a key role in a series of articles being published in PLoS Medicine that examine the need for and process of translating research evidence into guidance to inform policies that ultimately improve the delivery of healthcare nationally and globally.
Lavis is the lead author on the second of the three articles, and a contributing author on the other two that PLoS Medicine is publishing over a two-week period. The articles address how research evidence should be translated into guidance to inform policies on health systems, and improve the delivery of effective clinical and public health interventions.
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Research to support education practice and policy subject of March seminar
12 Mar 2012
The challenges of incorporating research knowledge into education practice and policy will be the subject of the CHEPA monthly seminar on March 21, presented by Ben Levin, the Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy.
In the presentation entitled Mobilizing Research Knowledge in Education, Levin will draw on his work in the field of research supporting practice and policy in education to explain the challenges of the concept, and describe the work of his team.
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