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Forum Fellows Selected for 2016-17
The McMaster Health Forum is pleased to announce that Padmaja Sreeram and Malcolm Hartman have been selected as Forum Fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. The Forum Fellows program is part of o… Read more -
McMaster Health Forum Student Leadership Team (2016-17) - Call for Applications
The McMaster Health Forum Student Leadership Team is currently recruiting members for the 2016-17 academic year. This is an excellent opportunity for students to become a part of the Forum community a… Read more -
Webinar: a critical description of the Ugandan Health System
Join us on May 27th as Boniface Mutatina, a McMaster Health Forum Queen Elizabeth Scholar in Strengthening Health Systems, provides a critical overview of the Ugandan healthcare system. A critical de… Read more -
Mental Health Matters: Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults - public talk
Mental health issues impose an enormous disease burden on societies across the world with depression alone affecting 350 million people globally. It is estimated that one in ten Canadian ad… Read more -
The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and the Retired Teachers of Ontario/les enseignantes et enseignants retraités de l'Ontario partner to promote informed healthy aging
The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and the Retired Teachers of Ontario are pleased to announce a new partnership that will promote healthy aging and help inform seniors' health concerns across the… Read more -
One-day workshop: Finding and Using Research Evidence to Inform Decision-making in Health Systems and Organizations
Summer: June 13, 2016 Registration now closed - next offering will be September 15, 2016. Want to be at the leading edge of a fast moving field in terms of how to bring the best evidence to bear in su… Read more -
Workbook on contextualizing guidance supports localized, evidence-based policy development
Looking for a tool to apply recommendations from a guidance document to your context? A newly released workbook on "Contextualizing health-systems guidance" outlines how to adapt guidance recomme… Read more -
Forum welcomes Queen Elizabeth Scholar from Uganda, sends interns to the Caribbean Public Health Agency
The McMaster Health Forum is pleased to announce its third group of recipients of Queen Elizabeth Scholarships in Strengthening Health Systems: Boniface Mutatina, Inna Berditchevskaia and Ad… Read more -
Cochrane Canada Centre returns to McMaster University
Cochrane Canada recently announced that the Centre has returned to McMaster University. The new Cochrane Canada Centre will be led by Director Holger Schünemann (Professor and Chair of the Depart… Read more -
Forum’s Queen Elizabeth Scholars in Strengthening Health Systems: Australia 2016
The McMaster Health Forum is pleased to announce its second group of recipients of Queen Elizabeth Scholarships in Strengthening Health Systems: Ben Li, Christopher Galano, and Alexandra Kilian. All t… Read more -
Forum hosting information sessions on Queen Elizabeth Scholarships in Strengthening Health Systems
The McMaster Health Forum is hosting two information sessions (March 29 and April 6) for students to meet current Queen Elizabeth Scholars and find out more about the McMaster Health Forum’s Que… Read more -
McMaster Health Forum launches revamped Health Systems Evidence
Improvements to provide health policymakers and stakeholders with better access to research evidence Health Systems Evidence (HSE) has recently improved its ability to support policymakers, stake… Read more -
Forum’s first Queen Elizabeth Scholars in Strengthening Health Systems
The McMaster Health Forum is pleased to announce its first recipients of Queen Elizabeth Scholarships in Strengthening Health Systems: Joycelyne Ewusie, Ahmad Firas Khalid, Rhonda Boateng and Nic… Read more -
McMaster Health Forum Fellows program - call for 2016 applications
The McMaster Health Forum is an inter-faculty initiative that strives to be a leading hub for improving health outcomes through collective problem solving. Operating at the regional/provincial level a… Read more -
Webinar - Contextualizing Guidance Workbook
On March 9th, Dr. Elizabeth Alvarez (a PhD Candidate with the McMaster Health Forum’s Impact Lab and a licensed physician) will be hosting a National Collaborating Centre for Methods a… Read more -
Forum's Impact Lab now accepting applications for 2016 summer student positions
As part of its commitment to prepare action-oriented leaders in addressing pressing health challenges creatively, the Forum’s Impact Lab is offering exciting summer job opportunities for undergr… Read more -
McMaster Health Forum and ARCC awarded CPAC grant
The McMaster Health Forum is proud to announce that, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC), we have been awarded funding from CPAC to engage Canadians… Read more -
The Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine's Best Kept Secret
In the complex, ever-evolving realm of modern medicine, how can you begin to understand what’s hocus-pocus and what research really works? Join best-selling author and researcher Alan Cassels on… Read more -
Dr. Lavis takes national prize for health policy impact
John N. Lavis, director of the McMaster Health Forum, is the co-winner of an award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) for his career-long efforts to ensure high-quality research i… Read more
