PANEL DISCUSSION

Working together: building collaboration and partnerships across the evidence ecosystem

day2

13:10–14:30 (CEST)

The session will discuss the importance of identifying opportunities, frameworks, and good practices that can support the institutionalization of collaboration and partnerships at various levels.

 

Collaboration is the key to unlocking the potential of E2P initiatives, but choosing partners, establishing common ground and sustaining the productive collaboration can be challenging. Join us as we explore the power of cross-evidence ecosystem collaboration and share insights on how to strengthen partnerships for more effective evidence-informed health decision-making.

The session will discuss the importance of identifying opportunities, frameworks, and good practices that can support the institutionalization of collaboration and partnerships at various levels. By sharing experiences, insights, and best practices, speakers will contribute to building a collective understanding of how to strengthen collaboration within the evidence ecosystem, aiming to lead to more effective and efficient use of resources for evidence-informed health decision-making both at national and global level.

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Key questions and session highlights

  • What is the importance of strengthening collaboration in the cross-evidence ecosystem? 

  • How to build and sustain stronger collaboration – in-house and at the country level? What are the frameworks and networks that can help? 

 

Moderator

Marge Reinap

WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark    

Marge Reinap is leading the work on Evidence to Policy Development at WHO/Europe since 2020. She joined WHO in 2012 as the Head of WHO Country Office in Estonia. Before she served as an Head of Health Policy in the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia. Her background is Economics (MA) and Global Health Policy (MSc), the latter from LSHTM.
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Panelists

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Holger J. Schünemann

Professor, Humanitas University, Italy

Holger J. Schünemann is a tenured professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact and of Medicine at McMaster University and at Humanitas University in Milan, Italy. He trained in respiratory and exercise physiology, lung biology, epidemiology, internal medicine and preventive medicine/public health. Since 2000, he helped reshaping of methodology for guideline development spanning clinical medicine to public health and contributed methodologically and practically to knowledge synthesis research, foremost through his co-leadership of the GRADE working group (www.gradeworkinggroup.org) that he co-chairs. He is an author of over 800 peer-reviewed publications (h-index 180/115 google scholar/web of science) and he is among the 500 most cited scientists in medicine globally.
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John Lavis

Director of the McMaster Health Forum and WHO Collaborating Centre for EIP, Canada

John supports efforts to address health and broader societal challenges using the best-available research evidence and experiences and insights from citizens, professionals, organizational leaders, and government policymakers. He is co-lead of and lead report writer for the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges, as well as co-lead of Rapid-Improvement Support and Exchange (RISE) and previously co-lead of the COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END). He is the Director of the McMaster Health Forum, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy, and Co-chairr of the EVIPNet Global Steering Group. He is a Professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at McMaster University and the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Support Systems. He holds an MD from Queen's University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD (in Health Policy) from Harvard University.
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Mouna Jameleddine

Instance Nationale de l'Evaluation et de l'Accréditation en Santé (INEAS), Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) HTA roundtable, Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)/International network of Agencies for HTA (GINAHTA), Tunisia

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Soledad Quiroz

Open Science Project, Universidad Central de Chile, Chile

Dr. Soledad Quiroz-Valenzuela, a researcher in Open Science policy at Universidad Central de Chile, holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Michigan State University (USA) and a Masters in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University (USA). In 2021, she was elected Vice-President for Policy of INGSA, while also becoming a Commissioner of the Global Commission of Evidence to Address Societal Challenges. She is also a member of the Expert Committee of the Latin America and the Caribbean Evidence Hub  (Hub LAC) and the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) of the Partnership Pillar Synthesis SDG Synthesis Coalition. With a decade of experience, she has been a lecturer, researcher and consultant, specializing in science and technology policy, science advice, and science diplomacy.
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Ruth Stewart

Founding Chair, Africa Evidence Network, South Africa

Prof. Ruth Stewart is the Founding Chair of the Africa Evidence Network, and the founder and former director of the Africa Centre for Evidence. Having grown up in Malawi, she studied in the UK, and lives and works in South Africa. Her work includes developing approaches for producing useful, policy-relevant evidence-bases for decision-makers. She focusses on facilitating systems-level change, and supporting others to do so, with an emphasis on evidence-policy partnerships as a mechanism for change. Her team has been involved in significant evidence-to-policy systems-developments within South African policy processes. She has largely pioneered the idea of evidence networks, and formed the cross-sector, transdisciplinary Africa Evidence Network in 2012. The Network now includes over 4000 people from across government, academia, business and more.
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Interactive session

Cross-evidence ecosystem collaboration that advances E2P

This session aims to foster knowledge exchange, inspire collective action, and contribute to advancing evidence-informed policy-making by harnessing the power of collaboration and partnerships. Participants will identify themselves as evidence user, producer, intermediary or funder to share positive experiences where collaboration or partnership between stakeholders or organizations across evidence ecosystem has strengthened the science-policy-decision-making interface at the country or global level, such as evidence-informed policies and programmes. Participants will also be engaged in a discussion around the main challenges and collective actions that could support cross-evidence collaboration. 

The insights from the session will be captured using a real-time collaborative web platform. 

Key questions and session highlights

  • What are positive experiences where collaboration or partnership between stakeholders or organizations across evidence ecosystem has strengthened the science-policy-decision-making interface? 
  • What are some of the main challenges perceived in the partnerships/collaborations and how can these barriers be overcame? 
  • How can the evidence community support cross-evidence partnerships/collaborations?