Citizen partners
The COVID-END citizen partners bring the voices of citizens to ensure their perspectives are woven into COVID-END’s work, along with those of researchers, providers, policymakers and other stakeholders. Citizen partners are making a significant contribution to COVID-END by:
- identifying (and prioritizing) issues to be addressed along the full spectrum of decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and response (i.e., public-health measures, clinical management, health system arrangements, and social and economic responses)
- ensuring that new evidence syntheses (e.g., living systematic reviews) being conducted address questions and outcomes that are important to them and involve citizens in their work
- ensuring that the pandemic response will reflect the values and insights of citizens, as well as equity considerations
- providing strategic guidance to the work of COVID-END global and COVID-END in Canada.
Citizen partners are actively engaged in:
- the COVID-END global partner steering group
- the COVID-END in Canada’s secretariat, steering committee, and collaborators’ group
- the COVID-END global and Canadian horizon-scanning panels
- four of the COVID-END global working groups (Prioritizing, Accessing, Engaging, and Advocating)
- the COVID-END global Equity task group
- the Citizen Partnership task group, which engages COVID-END global citizen partners
- rapid synthesis work, including the production of plain-language summaries.
The list of citizen partners is provided below.
COVID-END global
- Brian Stafford (Australia)
- Cynthia Lisée (Canada)
- Elizabeth Opondo (Kenya)
- Euphrasia Ebai-Atuh Ndi (Cameroon)
- Janice Tufte (United States)
- Jenny Camaradou (United Kingdom)
- Lynn Laidlaw (Scotland, former partner)
- Maureen Smith (Canada)
- Phil Collis (United Kingdom)
- Richard Ballerand (United Kingdom)
- Toby Stewart (Canada)
COVID-END in Canada
Twenty-two citizen partners are contributing to the CIHR-funded COVID-END in Canada initiative (December 2020 to November 2021) and collaborating with research teams on evidence-synthesis products.
- Abu Boakai Dukuly (Manitoba)
- Alies Maybee (Ontario)
- Alison Irons (Ontario)
- Amanda Doherty-Kirby (Prince Edward Island)
- Annie-Danielle Grenier (Québec)
- Blake Hawkins (British Columbia)
- Cynthia Lisée (Québec)
- Émilie Rufray (Québec)
- Eva Waldona (British Columbia)
- Janet Gunderson (Saskatchewan)
- Johanne O'Malley (Québec)
- Juanita Garcia (Manitoba)
- Juanna Ricketts (Nova Scotia)
- Judy Porter (Nova Scotia)
- Kimberly Strain (British Columbia)
- Laurie Proulx (Ontario)
- Linda Wilhem (New Brunswick)
- Maureen Smith (Ontario)
- Natasha Trehan (Ontario)
- Sandra Moroz (New Brunswick)
- Therese Lane (Ontario)
- Toby Stewart (Ontario)