Workshops and events

Click here for invitation to attend launch of the new Public Heath Review Group May 22, 2008

Presentations from the PHRG Editorial and Methods Advisory meeting in Edmonton, March 2008

• Introduction to the Cochrane Collaboration and the Public Health Review Group - Rebecca Armstrong and Jodie Doyle
• Obligations as a Cochrane Review Group and editorial pathways - Jodie Doyle
• Global systematic review initiatives: Moving forward in partnership - Elizabeth Waters
• Issues and Challenges of public health reviews: global perspective - Ritu Sadana
• Study designs for including in public health reviews - Lawrence Moore (presenting information from the Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol Group as examples)
• Study searching for public health reviews - Alison Weightman
• Context and process evaluations on public health reviews - Alan Shiell (for Penny Hawe)
• Assessing quality of studies for public health reviews - Helen Thomas and Maureen Dobbins
• Including economic evaluations in public health reviews - Alan Shiell
• Approaches to the synthesis of heterogenous evidence - Randy Elder
• Meeting the needs of and involving people from developing countries - Omar Abduwadud, Josianne Bonnefoy and Ritu Sadana
• Role of review advisory groups - Jodie Doyle

2007 Exploratory meetings to advance the registration of the Cochrane Public Health Group: 13th Sept 2007, Cork, Ireland
Minutes from the meeting (revised 18/10/07)
Slides from the meeting:
- Evidence based guidance for public health (Antony Morgan)
- Potential of PH systematic reviews to impact on primary research (Laurence Moore)
- Campbell Collaboration presentation (Julia Littell)
- Identifying evidence and maintaining a register of studies (Alison Weightman and Angela Harden)
29th Oct 2007, Beijing, China
Minutes from the meeting
Slides from the meeting:
-Introduction to the Cochrane Collaboration (Liz Waters)
-Work of the HPPH Field to date and rationale for transition to PH Review Group (Liz Waters)
- Mapping stakeholders and opportunities for knowledge synthesis: experience from WHO and the CSDH (Ritu Sadana)
-Cochrane Developing Countries Network (Zulma Ortiz)

Knowledge Translation workshop - hosted by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group (presentation made by Cochrane Public Health Group representuve, Rebecca Armstrong)

A Knowledge Translation workshop was held in Melbourne on Friday 14 March. International speakers included Professor Jeremy Grimshaw, Canadian Research Chair in Health, Knowledge Transfer amd Uptake, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Canada, and Professor Nicholas Mays, Professor of Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Click here  for Knowledge Translation Workshop presentations (Once on the page please look to the  bottom right-hand side of the page for the presentations - 2.2MB ZIP )

Thinking, Doing and Building: Public Health Evidence for Knowledge Translation.
Thursday 21st February 2008.  Presented by the Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field (McCaughey Centre, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne), PHREP Research Cluster (Deakin University) and VicHealth.
Click on the links below for slide presentations from the day:
Overview
Strengthening collaborative policy research in Victoria
Supporting complex public health research: the role of research, policy, practice and community
Systems to support knowledge translation and exchange: Examples from the policy research practice interface
Government – public health research partnerships in the UK (Wales)

Upcoming Conferences where PHRG staff will be presenting

• The 8th Campbell Colloquium May 12-14, 2008, Vancouver, Canada.  Click here for details
• European Congress on Obesity May 14-17,2008, Geneva, Switzerland.  Click here for details
• Australasian Cochrane Symposium, Hobart, Australia. Click here for details
• 16th Cochrane Colloquium October 3-7, 2008, Freiburg, Germany. Click here for details

Some past presentations...

Podcasts of plenary presentations from the 2007 Cochrane Colloquium (including presentation from PHRG Co-Ordinating Editor, Elizabeth Waters) now available.  Click here.

Getting evidence into policy and practice: a framework for knowledge translation and exchange

Systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions

A cluster randomised controlled trial to assess knowledge translation strategies for obesity prevention

IUHPE Conference Vancouver, Canada 10-15 June 2007

Abstracts from poster and oral presentations from past Cochrane Colloquia available here

Cochrane Training Events

For Cochrane training events at Cochrane Centres around the world go to:

www.cochrane.org/news/workshops.shtml

www.cochrane.org/news/calendar.shtml