Dear Tom Saxton,
Many thanks for your recent message on HIFA
https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/2026-cochrane-colloquium-call-abstracts...
I note that 'Participants will explore:
- Fostering research integrity and relevance through an improved evidence ecosystem that establishes feedback loops between evidence synthesis and primary research
- AI-enabled processes that accelerate evidence synthesis while maintaining trust, ensuring responsibility, transparency, quality, and human oversight.
- Equitable integration, coordination and partnership models, with a focus on regional priority-setting and equitable governance of global evidence infrastructure.
- Methods innovation for living, continuously updated and real-time syntheses within evidence ecosystems across health and other sectors.
- Overcoming distrust in evidence with a focus on fostering critical thinking and countering misinformation and disinformation.'
These topics are of great interest to us on HIFA and we would welcome the opportunity to discuss them in the weeks and months leading to the Colloquium.
Also, I would like to flag to all who are planning to go to the Colloquium: please let us know if you would be happy to publicise HIFA while you are there. Also, if HIFA can host a thematic discussion on your topic of interest between now and the event, let us know and we can arrange this. www.hifa.org/projects
Many thanks, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org