Working group co-chairs

COVID-END’s seven working groups are chaired or co-chaired by leaders in their respective fields. 

• Scoping working group
  • Jeremy Grimshaw, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
• Prioritizing working group
  • Jorge Barreto, FIOCRUZ Brasilia, Brazil
  • Ruth McQuillan, UNCOVER, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Accessing working group
  • Holger Schunemann, Cochrane Canada, Canada
  • Ruth Stewart, Africa Centre for Evidence, South Africa
• Engaging working group
  • Laurenz Langer, Africa Centre for Evidence, South Africa
  • Maureen Dobbins, National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools, Canada
• Recommending working group
  • Ivan Florez, AGREE Collaboration, Colombia
  • Per-Olav Vandvik, MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation, Norway
• Sustaining working group
  • David Gough, EPPI Centre, UK
  • Elie Akl, SPARK, Lebanon 
• Advocating working group
  • Sylvia de Haan, Cochrane, U.K.

Three additional working groups are now ‘on stand-by’ and, after a series of important achievements and now much-needed rest, can take on exciting new opportunities to make a difference.

• Digitizing working group
  • Chris Mavergames, Cochrane, Germany
  • Linn Brandt, MAGICapp, Norway
• Synthesizing working group
  • David Tovey, UK
  • Taryn Young, Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Packaging working group
  • Ben Heaven-Taylor, Evidence Aid, UK

Two task groups contribute in ways that cut across our working groups:

• Equity task group
  • Vivian Welch, Campbell Collaboration, Canada
  • Brenda Allen Kawala, Africa Centre for Systematic reviews and Knowledge Translation, Uganda
• Citizen partnership task group
  • Maureen Smith, Canada