Evidence Synthesis Ireland (ESI), which hosts Cochrane Ireland, aims to make evidence syntheses more usable in every sense of the word – better designed, conducted and reported, more useable for decision-makers and more usable within health care policy and clinical practice decision making across the island of Ireland and beyond.
We provide education for researchers, clinicians, the public and policymakers who conduct or use evidence syntheses.
We build capacity in planning, doing and sharing evidence syntheses through Fellowships, workshops and scholarships.
We advance the way we plan, do and share the results of evidence synthesis by finding out how to do these steps better.
november 2024
This workshop will be held over four mornings and provides authors, at the beginning of the systematic review process, with an in-depth understanding of how reviews are planned and conducted.
This workshop will be held over four mornings and provides authors, at the beginning of the systematic review process, with an in-depth understanding of how reviews are planned and conducted. It offers an insight to the development of a protocol, introducing participants to methodology, search methods, data extraction, risk of bias assessment and meta-analysis.
Date: 4th, 5th, 11th & 12th November 2024
Time: 10.00 am – 1.00/1:30 pm
Places: 30 available for individuals who are resident on the island of Ireland
Fee: General €150; Student €80
Skill level: Introductory
Target Audience: Healthcare professionals, academics, researchers, decision makers and Evidence Synthesis Ireland fellows who have identified a review topic and are ready to begin working on their protocol.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of health research. Interested in learning more on the methods of a systematic review.
Teaching strategies: The workshop will consist of a mixture of short presentations, led by members of the Cochrane Ireland & ESI teaching faculty covering each of the stages of developing a systematic review protocol, small group activities and plenary discussions, providing participants with the opportunity to develop and refine their protocol. This course will include blended learning with two months free access to Cochrane Interactive Learning self-directed modules, a number of which will be required study prior to the workshop.
Facilitators
Prof. Anne Matthews, Full Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy & Community Health, Dublin City University
Ciara Gleeson, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Respiratory Assessment Unit, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin
*If your type of ticket is sold out, please join the waitlist or contact us at esi@universityofgalway.ie
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4 (Monday) 10:00 am - 12 (Tuesday) 1:00 pm
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To register, click here The field of climate and health is situated at a sweet spot between two complementary evidence synthesis traditions. The health community has
To register, click here
The field of climate and health is situated at a sweet spot between two complementary evidence synthesis traditions. The health community has been invaluable in developing systematic review methodologies for understanding interventions. The climate community has developed an intermodal comparison toolkit for evaluating alternative policy futures. In this talk I will discuss how the field of climate and health can be instrumental in advancing evidence synthesis to the next level. Driven by an evidence base that is shaped very differently than in health, there is a requirement to adjust and expand the traditional evidence synthesis toolkit. Mutual learning between the climate and health communities could be an important driver and accelerator for innovation. The second half of the talk will be devoted to outlining the research frontiers of artificial intelligence in making evidence synthesis faster and cheaper without jeopardizing methodological rigor.
Speaker:
Dr. Jan Minx is head of the working group Applied Sustainability Science at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. He works on a broad range of topics in climate policy such as climate and health pathways to climate neutrality, trade-offs and co-benefits of climate policies, or urban climate change mitigation and adaptation options. Methodologically, main focus of his work is on evidence synthesis: one part explores how artificial intelligence can be used to scale evidence synthesis methods to large bodies of evidence and apply them in science assessments; another part is working on the development of new evidence synthesis methods to advance scientific policy advice in the field of climate. Jan is Co-Chair of the Campbell Collaboration’s Climate Solutions Coordinating Group and has been a longstanding author in assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as well as the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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The innovative ESI Fellowships give Fellows the opportunity to learn about evidence synthesis, with hands-on experience of how to plan, design, conduct and report an evidence synthesis. Fellows are placed virtually with world-class evidence synthesis centres and review teams in Ireland and internationally, on policy and practice relevant reviews.
We’re committed to improving how we gather, interpret, and share vast amounts of information, a process known as evidence synthesis. Our approach isn’t just about conducting research; it’s about improving the very methods we use to plan, conduct, and share the results of this process.
We work in many different research areas relevant to evidence synthesis and have a particularly strong focus on rapid reviews, knowledge translation and “studies within a review” (SWARs).
“ Reporting on health care topics can rely too much on asking experts or reporting the results of a single study…what would be much more useful to members of the public, especially when it comes to making decisions about their own health, is for people to understand how to situate health claims in the global body of evidence. “