Dear HIFA Colleagues
How can local evidence, professional/tacit knowledge, programme/policy descriptions and evaluations be used for health decision making? To use the information in such ‘unconventional’ source materials in evidence syntheses or other decision support products, we need to assess the limitations and strengths of these sources. This webinar will describe and discuss the Assessing unConventional Evidence (ACE) tool – a new tool to assess the strengths and limitations of these source materials.
Please join us for the webinar on Thursday April 11th at 14h00 CET to learn more about the ACE Tool and share ideas on how this tool can inform and strengthen your work.
The session will be held in English with interpretation into French and Spanish.
REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/3x8GKtj
Best wishes
Simon
HIFA profile: Simon Lewin is a health systems researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/simon.lewin), the South African Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.za) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (https://www.fhi.no/en/kn/ceir/). He has a keen interest in how research evidence can be used to inform decisions for health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and at the global level in multilateral organisations such as the WHO. As Co-Lead of Cochrane People, Health Systems and Public Health, he has played a key role in strengthening Cochrane’s work in the field of health systems and in developing Cochrane methods for qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane is a HIFA supporting organisation and Simon is a member of two HIFA working groups: CHWs; and SUPPORT-SYSTEMS - How can decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and universal health coverage be made more inclusive, responsive and accountable? https://www.hifa.org/support/members/simon
