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Canadian Medical Association @cmadocs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Is AI reducing the administrative burden in medicine? With funding from the CMA Foundation, the McMaster Health Forum has reviewed the best available evidence on AI tools from Canada and nine other countries. Read more 👇

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How embracing AI can bring more time — and joy — to medicine

AI-driven tools are cutting down on paperwork and helping doctors reclaim what they need most: time. That’s one of the key findings from a recent rapid evidence synthesis conducted by the McMaster Hea...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How can we help health and social systems learn and improve rapidly and contribute to a society-wide transformation? Read more in our living evidence synthesis ow.ly/r75L50Z7M4A

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How can we help citizens judge what others are claiming or find (and receive) reliable information on a topic? Read more in our living evidence synthesis ow.ly/Le7250Z7LWE

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Rebecca Ganann shares insights from our stakeholder dialogue on improving access to integrated health and social programs that help older adults in Ontario stay mobile, and physically and mentally well, while living in their community youtu.be/1e-Uk67l1WU?si=1SiLdBJ1dXR…

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

How can we make evidence available to citizens when they are making choices? Read more in our living evidence synthesis ow.ly/B2sw50Z7LW4

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How can we make evidence-based choices the default or easy option? Read more in our living evidence synthesis ow.ly/OPGC50Z7LTA

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We are now accepting applications for 2026 summer positions (for McMaster undergraduate students). Applications will be considered as they are received, so candidates are encouraged to apply early ow.ly/BWBA50Y1j8c

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

How do you maintain public trust when issues arise and/or scientific guidance evolves? "Science moves and we need to move with it. Communicating that honestly will build trust and prevent the “gotcha” moments when evidence shifts," said @lavisjn.bsky.social ow.ly/w1bG50Y1fWT

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Health misinformation is one of the biggest challenges of our time – shaping public trust, influencing policy, & impacting lives. @lavisjn.bsky.social and Gillian Earle weigh in on how @McMasterU can lead the way in shaping health information for the public good healthsci.mcmaster.ca/fly-on-the-w...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

An article recently published in the Journal of Public Health was co-authored by Kenneth Chen as part of his Global Skills Opportunity experience in Australia academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

"Let's choose a future where evidence drives collective impact,” encouraged a group of evidence synthesis and public policy experts (including the Forum’s John Lavis) in a recent call to action published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ow.ly/lh9C50XriYS

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How can AI-powered evidence synthesis accelerate inclusive social development? Register for this virtual Solutions Session at the Second World Summit for Social Development events.teams.microsoft.com/event/69ac2a... #SocialSummit2025

Accelerating Inclusive Social Development through AI-enabled Evidence and Evaluation Synthesis - Solution Session to the 2nd World Summit for Social Development

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

What is the role of the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative in strengthening evidence use? Watch a recording from a recent webinar with @lavisjn.bsky.social to learn more www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76z... @arashidian.bsky.social @who.int

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NEDtP Webinar Series 2025 - Session 4: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration: The Role of the ESIC

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Putting evidence at the centre of everyday life for citizens - a call to action for #WorldEBHCDay worldebhcday.org/blog/2025/pu... @maureenchats.bsky.social

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In a recent webinar hosted by NEDtP, Eastern Mediterranean Region, @lavisjn.bsky.social shared how ESIC will transform how we learn from other countries and create a step-change improvement in how we produce and use evidence synthesis www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76z... @arashidian.bsky.social @who.int

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NEDtP Webinar Series 2025 - Session 4: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration: The Role of the ESIC

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The newly launched Evidence Synthesis Network for Canada to Support Pandemic Planning and Response will allow us to continue to provide evidence to inform pandemic planning and response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

These are exciting times for those engaged in providing timely, demand-driven evidence synthesis & support. In a recent webinar, @lavisjn.bsky.social shared how ESIC will transform how we produce & use evidence synthesis www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76z... @arashidian.bsky.social @who.int

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NEDtP Webinar Series 2025 - Session 4: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration: The Role of the ESIC

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We will partner with 20+ evidence-synthesis teams from across Canada, experts, as well as citizen- and Indigenous-advisors to inform and support Canada’s pandemic planning and response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Since 2020, we have been leading efforts to build networks to address urgent issues related to pandemic planning & response with robust & rapid evidence syntheses. A newly funded McMaster Forum-led network will support Canada’s pandemic planning & response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A newly funded McMaster Health Forum-led network will support Canada’s pandemic planning and response www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Today, MoH Marjorie Michel, announced an investment of nearly $20 million to support 7 research platforms to unite researchers from across the country to maintain Canada’s pandemic readiness, improve surveillance systems, and support evidence-based decision-making www.canada.ca/en/institute...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

At yesterday's #UNGA event, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, alongside fellow members of the ESIC Funders Interest Group, announced a near doubling of commitments to ESIC, bringing the total to US$126 million unpartnerships.un.org/press-center...

Annemarie Hou, Executive Director of UN Partnerships and John Lavis, ESIC Advisor at Wellcome

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“We’re continuing to lead and grow a network of evidence synthesis teams across Canada, which allows us and our network to collectively go further and faster in supporting the use of evidence in policy decision making,” said @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMB6...

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How the McMaster Health Forum equips leaders to respond to urgent health and social challenges

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In a recent interview, @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social described how the Forum undertakes a “living approach to evidence synthesis,” which allows for routine updating when a field is moving quickly and for incorporating enhancements to scope, methods and future versions ow.ly/w1On50WlQz6

Using evidence to tackle health and social challenges

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“We’re one of the only groups who, in addition to producing full evidence syntheses and rapid syntheses, commit to conducting what we call ‘ultra-rapid evidence syntheses’ in as little as days,” explained @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social in a recent interview healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...

Podcast on using evidence to tackle health and social challenges

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"We want to enthusiastically embrace and lead (where we can) the changes that have been prioritized by ESIC," shared @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social youtu.be/h0i2GKW_9vA

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How do you anticipate that outcomes from ESIC will change the work of the Forum?

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The Global SDG Synthesis Coalition – a UN Development Program initiative – recently highlighted Social Systems Evidence as a key source in their Planet Pillar scoping review. Learn more in our latest newsletter ow.ly/BsCQ50WlQUK

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

“We work closely with decision makers, including citizens, to ensure that what is produced will be contextualized in the ways needed to directly inform the policy challenges faced,” explained @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social in a recent interview healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

.@lavisjn.bsky.social, Director of the McMaster Health Forum, shares insights into what excites him about the road ahead, now that the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative’s Cape Town consensus meeting is over youtu.be/jTrRvjuwODw

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What excites you about the road ahead, now that ESIC’s Cape Town consensus meeting is over?

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

@wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shares insights on how the outcomes from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative will change the work of the McMaster Health Forum youtu.be/h0i2GKW_9vA

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How do you anticipate that outcomes from ESIC will change the work of the Forum?

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

In a recent interview, @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shared insights about how the Forum works to get the right programs, services and products to those who need them. “The Forum is focused on generating action to address policy issues faced by decision makers.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMB6...

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How the McMaster Health Forum equips leaders to respond to urgent health and social challenges

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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How the McMaster Health Forum equips leaders to respond to urgent health and social challenges

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

@lavisjn.bsky.social, Director of the McMaster Health Forum, shares some key insights from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative’s Cape Town consensus meeting youtu.be/NaTzlGA_l6I

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Key insights from ESIC's Cape Town consensus meeting

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What is the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative and what does it hope to achieve? @lavisjn.bsky.social provides an overview of the initiative youtu.be/BEIJn2ZUpZI

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What is the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative and what does it hope to achieve?

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In a recent interview with Paul O'Byrne (Dean and Vice-President, @machealthsci.bsky.social), @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shared insights about how our team supports the use of the best-available evidence in decision-making about pressing policy challenges healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...

Video podcast with Michael Wilson and Paul O'Byrne

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Paul O’Byrne, McMaster's dean and vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Michael Wilson, the Forum's Scientific Director and HEI associate professor, discuss using evidence to tackle health and social challenges healthsci.mcmaster.ca/how-the-mcma...

Using evidence to tackle health and social challenges - video podcast

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In the past 2 years we produced, or coordinated the production with our partners, 50+ evidence syntheses, including: 13 rapid syntheses, 16 living evidence synthesis updates, 12 rapid evidence profiles & 10 living evidence profile updates. Learn more newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-D0823D4D...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Over the past 2 years, we & a number of our fellow evidence-synthesis teams across Canada have responded to urgent requests with rapid evidence syntheses on a range of public health topics to inform emergency planning & response activities. Learn more newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-D0823D4D...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Over the past two years, the Forum has provided timely, demand-driven evidence support to inform the Public Health Agency of Canada’s advisory and decision-making processes. Learn more >> newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-D0823D4D...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Through Global Skills Opportunity, the Forum engaged 18 undergraduate students from April 2021 to March 2025. To learn more about the experiences of the Forum’s GSO students, we encourage you to watch their webinars www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Interdisciplinary primary-care teams offer a promising approach to provide improved access to comprehensive patient-centred care. Learn more in our rapid synthesis www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/pro...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Tobacco control policies such as price and tax strategies, graphic health warnings, and smoke-free spaces are valuable policy tools for reducing exposure to tobacco products and second-hand smoke. Learn more in our #RapidSynthesis www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/pro...

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit and McMaster Health Forum, in partnership with Trillium Health Partners, are offering two more 90-minute nano courses that reflect an updated approach to supporting learning health systems. Register now surveys.mcmaster.ca/limesurvey/i...

Virtual nano course on enabling learning health systems

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Forum Director @lavisjn.bsky.social recently participated in a @wiltonpark.bsky.social dialogue on AI & knowledge management in evaluation synthesis organized in partnership with Global Affairs Canada & the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office newsletters.cubiclefugitive.com/t/y-A6CF09D4...

Wilton Park dialogue on artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge management in evaluation synthesis

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In a panel at McMaster's inaugural Policy Exchange Roundtable, @wilson-michaelg.bsky.social shared how his living evidence syntheses are supporting efforts to prevent and mitigate the effects of health misinformation research.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-pol...

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JBI @jbiebhc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

@lavisjn.bsky.social of @mcmasterforum.bsky.social outlines features of the 'SHOW ME the evidence’ approach for reliably delivering research evidence to those who need it: journals.lww.com/ijebh/fullte... #EvidenceSynthesis

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Lavis, John N.; Grimshaw, Jeremy M.; Stewart, Ruth; Elliott, Julian; Moy, Will; Meerpohl, Joerg J.
JBI Evidence Implementation 23(1):p 131-137, January 2025

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McMaster Health Forum @mcmasterforum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The Forum team continues to respond in short timeframes to requests from decision-makers, including government policymakers. Browse all of our contextualized evidence syntheses to see what requests we’ve responded to www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/pro...

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