Next generation support and stronger institutions for evidence-informed policy-making

John N Lavis¹, Mehrnaz Kheirandish², Lubna Al-Ansary³, Huda Basaleem⁴, Rana Hajjeh⁵, Ahmed Al-Mandhari⁶, Arash Rashidian⁷

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¹ Director, McMaster Health Forum, and Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
² Regional Adviser, Evidence to Policy, Department of Science, Information and Dissemination, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
³ Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Assistant Vice president for Academic Affairs, University of AdenUniversity of Aden Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Aden, Yemen.
⁵ Director of Programme Management, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
⁶ Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
⁷ Director of Science, Information and Dissemination, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.

PMID: 37553734
DOI: 10.26719/2023.29.7.495

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Next generation support and stronger institutions for evidence-informed policy-making

John N Lavis et al. East Mediterr Health J. 2023.

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. 2023 Jul 31;29(7):495-497.

doi: 10.26719/2023.29.7.495.

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John N Lavis¹, Mehrnaz Kheirandish², Lubna Al-Ansary³, Huda Basaleem⁴, Rana Hajjeh⁵, Ahmed Al-Mandhari⁶, Arash Rashidian⁷

Affiliations

¹ Director, McMaster Health Forum, and Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
² Regional Adviser, Evidence to Policy, Department of Science, Information and Dissemination, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
³ Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Assistant Vice president for Academic Affairs, University of AdenUniversity of Aden Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Aden, Yemen.
⁵ Director of Programme Management, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
⁶ Regional Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
⁷ Director of Science, Information and Dissemination, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.

PMID: 37553734
DOI: 10.26719/2023.29.7.495

Abstract

Evidence-informed policy-making benefitted from much-needed attention and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic (1). As a result, 3 key movements and innovations are now making it possible to provide better evidence support (higher quality and more aligned to the speed of advisory and decision-making) for policy-making than ever.

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