Scoping working group

This working group identifies where support and coordination is most needed and what principles should underpin such support and coordination.

Terms of reference

1. Confirm the name for the initiative [completed]
• COVID-19 Evidence Network for supporting Decision-making (COVID-END)
2. Describe the focus of the initiative [completed – see website]
3. Draft principles that underpin the work of the initiative [completed – see website]
4. Confirm relationship between the initiative and other related initiatives, such as Evidence Synthesis International and Global Evidence Synthesis Initiative [completed]
5. Describe the different parts of the evidence ecosystem (on both demand and supply sides), gathering information about who’s working in each, and then combining this information to identify and capture efficiencies
6. Collaborate with other working groups to identify the human and financial needs to support the work, ways ‘re-program’ existing budgets where possible, and contribute to collective efforts to pursue opportunities for additional funding where appropriate

Participants

1. Jeremy Grimshaw, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | RISE and COVID-END Secretariat, Canada (chair)
2. Birte Snilsveit, 3IE, UK
3. Charles Wiysonge, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
4. David Gough, EPPI Centre, UK
5. David Tovey, COVID-END Secretariat
6. Declan Devane, Cochrane Ireland, Ireland
7. Gabriel Rada, Epistemonikos, Chile
8. Patrick Okwen Mbah, eBASE, Cameroon
9. Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford, UK
10. Ruth Stewart, Africa Centre for Evidence, South Africa
11. Secretariat: Safa Al-Khateeb, McMaster Health Forum and COVID-END Secretariat

Meeting documents