Norway Launch Seminar for Cochrane’s new Thematic Group: People, Health Systems and Public Health

On 4 October, Cochrane’s People, Health Systems and Public Health Thematic Group will be welcoming colleagues to join a seminar in Trondheim, Norway and online for the Norway launch of the new group. Details of how to register for the event can be found below.

The new Thematic Group will focus on supporting the systematic uptake and integration of evidence-based interventions into health and public health systems to improve their impact on individuals and communities globally. It brings together decades of expertise from several Cochrane groups that have already collaborated effectively for many years. The creation of this new group will make it easier to collaborate and will enable the further pooling of expertise. 

Group Member Rebecca Ryan explained: “Working more closely as a coordinated Thematic Group will enable cross-cutting priority topics to be identified, along with overlapping areas where research waste might be reduced. There will also be scope to explore effective and efficient ways of providing content input through new Evidence Synthesis Units and the Central Editorial Service. There are so many possibilities.”

The group is keen to engage with the Cochrane Community and this seminar aims to introduce Cochrane and the Thematic Group to colleagues and stakeholders and to discuss how to best embed evidence-informed decision-making in health and public health systems. Speakers include:

  • Karla Soares, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library

  • Prof Sasha Shepperd, Professor of Health Services Research, University of Oxford, UK and co-lead of the Thematic Group

  • Dr Rebecca Ryan, Head of the Centre for Health Communication and Participation, La Trobe University, Australia and co-lead of the Thematic Group

  • Björn Gustafsson, Medical Director, Central Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Midt-Norge), Norway

  • Prof Angela Oyo-Ita, Professor of Community Medicine and Deputy Director of Cochrane Nigeria, University of Calabar, Nigeria

Event details and how to register: 

Time: 4 October 2023, 09:00-11.00 Norway time (CET)

Venue: ØHA11 – Undervisningsrom, Øya Helsehus, 1st floor, NTNU Trondheim / online

Further information:

Led by Rebecca Ryan (CCC, La Trobe University Australia), Luke Wolfenden (CPH, University of Newcastle, Australia), Simon Lewin (EPOC, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and South African Medical Research Council) and Sasha Shepperd (EPOC, University of Oxford), the new Group has its sights set on bringing quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods expertise to evidence applied across diverse clinical areas, populations and contexts. The Norwegian base for the Group is the Department of Health Sciences, Ålesund, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Neil Rodger