McMaster Health Forum | Tools

McMaster University has an international reputation for excellence in evidence-based medicine and problem-based learning. The Forum has extended this reputation into the fields of evidence-informed health systems and collective problem-solving.

The following are resources created or co-created by the Forum to support our programs in these two fields, health- and social-system leaders and the programs they serve.

Let’s collaborate
  1. McMaster Health Forum programs
  2. 15 years of providing timely demand-driven evidence support
  3. Ten years of supporting evidence-informed policymaking
  4. Biennial report - April 2021

Learn how
  1. Finding and using research evidence (Policy analysis) | Summary sheet
  2. Finding and using research evidence | Course description
  3. Setting agendas and developing and implementing policies | Summary sheet
  4. Setting agendas and developing and implementing policies | Course description
  5. SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health policymaking
    Also available in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.
  6. Implementing health systems guidance: A workbook to support the contextualization of recommendations at the national or subnational level
  7. Prompts to assist in executing five strategies to be more efficient, systematic and transparent in using evidence in policy work
    Also available in French

Find evidence
  1. List of McMaster Health Forum products
  2. Rapid Response program: Summary of service timelines
  3. Health Systems Evidence: Summary of key features and functions
  4. Health Systems Evidence: Taxonomy of governance, financial and delivery arrangements and of implementation strategies within health systems (Français)
  5. Social Systems Evidence: One-page overview
  6. Social Systems Evidence: Summary of key features and functions
  7. Social Systems Evidence: Taxonomy of program and service areas, governance, financial and delivery arrangements, and implementation strategies within social systems
  8. McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Rationale and features
  9. McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Information about healthy aging that you can trust: Handout for professionals
  10. McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Information about healthy aging that you can trust: Brochure

Spark action
  1. Stakeholder Dialogues program
  2. Overview of the McMaster Health Forum’s approach to convening citizen panels

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