The announcement below if forwarded from The Lancet. The webinar is free to join and I invite HIFA members to register and share your observations with us by email to: hifa@hifaforums.org
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Join Richard Horton, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Tracey Brown, and Alejandra Paniagua-Avila for Elsevier's upcoming live webinar on "Talking about the quality and reliability of evidence," the first webinar in this three-part series.
About this video
This webinar will provide practical tips and discuss how to communicate different types of research outputs and their relative strengths and weaknesses, including the role of pre-prints, data and funding, and the use of AI.
Topics covered will include:
- Understanding why research outputs are different from other kinds of information
- The role and limits of peer review
- Testable vs. non-testable questions
- Differentiating between research evidence and policy decisions
About the presenters
Richard Horton, OBE, FRCPCH, FMedSci
Richard Horton is the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet. He graduated in physiology and medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1986 and joined The Lancet in 1990, becoming North American Editor in 1993. Horton has chaired global health commissions and co-chaired the UN’s Expert Review Group on Women’s and Children’s Health. He has received numerous awards, including the Friendship Award from China (2015) and the WHO Director-General’s Health Leaders Award (2019). He is a Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine and advocates for planetary health. Horton authored The COVID-19 Catastrophe (2020), with a second edition released in 2021, and was awarded an OBE in 2023 for services to health and medical journalism.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD, is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA. She is also Pro-Vice-Chancellor for African Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a Professor at Columbia University. Karim has led groundbreaking research in HIV prevention, HIV-TB co-infection, and the impact of COVID-19 on HIV. She serves as President of TWAS and UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents and HIV, contributing to global health initiatives. With over 300 publications, she has trained 600+ Southern African scientists and received over 30 global honors, including the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award and the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award.
Tracey Brown OBE
Tracey Brown OBE is the director of Sense about Science. Under her leadership, the charity has launched important initiatives to promote open discussions of evidence, including Risk know-how and AllTrials - a global campaign for the reporting of all clinical trial outcomes. She initiated Evidence Week in the UK Parliament and co-founded the international Maddox prize. Tracey writes about the public and evidence, and leads Sense about Science’s work on transparency of evidence and AI in policy. She is honorary Professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Engineering in Public Policy at UCL.
Alejandra Paniagua-Avila, MD, DrPH, MPH|
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University (USA); President and Co-founder, Asociación para la Salud Mental Saqirsán.
Alejandra Paniagua-Avila is a Guatemalan medical doctor and early career scientist dedicated to advancing access to recovery-oriented mental health services for all. She has a particular interest in addressing the health and social needs.
Register here: https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/communicating-research/confidence...
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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