Our citizen engagement and products
We work with a diverse array of individuals and organizations that share our interest in collaboratively addressing the pressing health- and social-system issues of our time. As part of this work, we are actively pursuing engagement and thought leadership opportunities to engage citizens and citizen-serving NGOs in putting evidence at the centre of everyday life.
Citizen panels
Our citizen panels provide an opportunity for 14-16 citizens with diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to deliberate about pressing health and social issues. A citizen panel helps us to understand the values that citizens think are important when making decisions about the issue and reveals new understandings about the issue and how it should be addressed. When convened in advance of a stakeholder dialogue on the same issue, the insights that we gain through our citizen panels are included in the evidence brief that informs the stakeholder dialogue.
>> Learn more about our citizen panels
>> Access citizen products by browsing the array of health- and social-system topics for which we have hosted citizen panels
Engaging citizen partners in evidence syntheses
The Forum regularly receives urgent requests for summaries of the best-available evidence on pressing health- and social-system issues from government policymakers, system and organizational leaders and professional leaders. We engage citizen partners to help inform how we approach these urgent requests for evidence syntheses through our rapid response program.
Other citizen evidence products
The Forum increasingly engages citizen partners in the co-production of plain-language summaries that ensure the key insights from our evidence products are presented in formats and language that are accessible to everyone.
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
If you are an older adult, caregiver or professional (clinician, public health practitioner or policymaker) looking for high-quality information about the health- and social-aspects of optimal aging, you can access the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and either browse the list of topics covered by our easy-to-understand blogs and other types of products, or search to find information on a specific topic.