Peter DeMaio

Peter’s role primarily involves gathering and synthesizing evidence for the McMaster Health Forum’s evidence products, including rapid evidence profiles and living evidence profiles, rapid syntheses, evidence briefs and citizen briefs, and other evidence syntheses. He has previously worked as a consultant supporting the World Health Organization’s Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit (ERP). In that role, Peter developed new evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) tools and methods, as well as helped organize and execute engagement strategies to strengthen global evidence-informed decision-making efforts, including the WHO Global Evidence-to-Policy Summit. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Social Gerontology at McMaster University and holds a MSc in Evidence-based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation from the University of Oxford, and a MA in Health, Aging and Society from McMaster University.