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Optimizing Clinical Practice in Ontario Based on Data, Evidence and Guidelines
Optimizing clinical practice based on data, evidence and guidelines is a challenge faced in every health system around the world. The way the challenge manifests itself at the level of the patient has... Read more -
McMaster Health Forum Student Leadership Team - Call for Applications
The McMaster Health Forum Student Leadership Team is currently recruiting members for the 2015-16 academic year. This is an excellent opportunity for students to become a part of the Forum community a... Read more -
Active Living: How to Form Healthy Habits for Optimal Aging
Physical activity at all ages is essential to healthy aging. Despite the growing awareness of the dangers of our modern sedentary lifestyles, keeping active can be a challenge. Join BodyBreak’s ... Read more -
Citizens identify solutions to address nutritional risk among older adults
Today, the McMaster Health Forum released a citizen panel summary, which identifies some potential solutions to addressing nutritional risk among older adults. Among the options identified, the m... Read more -
Wearable technologies and optimal aging
The popularity of wearable technologies has grown rapidly over the past few years, but the impact of these devices on health and healthcare remain uncertain. Join Nora Young and Dr. Anthony Levinson o... Read more -
Improving Leadership Capacity in Primary and Community Care in Ontario
Ontario’s primary and community care sectors are increasingly being called upon to work as part of an integrated system, both in relation to each other and in relation to acute care, public heal... Read more -
Forum Assistant Director awarded CIHR research grant to support optimal approaches in addressing frailty in older adults
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced that an interdisciplinary team of researchers, co-led by the McMaster Health Forum’s Assistant Director Michael Wilson, has b... Read more -
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and MedicAlert® Foundation Canada partner to promote healthy, active aging
A new partnership between McMaster’s Optimal Aging Portal and MedicAlert® Foundation Canada will help to ensure that Canadians have access to high-quality information tha... Read more -
Making sense of the evidence on breast cancer screening
The McMaster Health Forum, with support from the Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative, recently hosted a public talk to examine the latest evidence on breast cancer screening and the impact this evidence ... Read more -
Forum Director John Lavis awarded Tier 1 CRC in Evidence-Informed Health Systems
John Lavis, Director of the McMaster Health Forum and a professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health S... Read more -
Forum Fellows Selected for 2015-16
The McMaster Health Forum is pleased to announce that Ben Li and Matthew Hughsam have been selected as Forum Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year. The Forum Fellows program is part of our commitment ... Read more -
Delivering evidence to more than 10,000 health-system leaders
The McMaster Health Forum’s Health Systems Evidence reached a significant milestone this month with more than 10,000 users now registered. Health Systems Evidence is the world's most comprehensi... Read more -
Knowledge to Policy Center established in Lebanon based on McMaster Health Forum model
Forum Director John Lavis speaks at official launch event The work of the McMaster Health Forum, a leading hub for improving health outcomes through collective problem solving, has been used as a mode... Read more -
Breast cancer screening: making sense of the evidence
We know that breast cancer screening (mammography) can identify breast cancer early, but at what cost? Join us on March 25 as Dr. Jonathan Sussman and Dr. Cathy Risdon discuss the latest evidence on b... Read more -
McMaster Health Forum to host five-day workshop on finding and using research evidence: June 15-19
Registration is now open for a five-day training workshop that supports policymakers, stakeholders and researchers in learning how to find and use research evidence in their work to reform, renew or s... Read more -
Forum now accepting applications for 2015 summer student positions
As part of its commitment to prepare action-oriented leaders in addressing pressing health challenges creatively, the Forum and the Forum’s Impact Lab are offering exciting summer job opportunit... Read more -
Forum selected to offer Queen Elizabeth Scholarships in Strengthening Health Systems
The McMaster Health Forum is proud to have been selected as one of the 34 Canadian institutions to be a host site for the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship program. The Forum wil... Read more -
McMaster launches student mental health and well-being strategy
The McMaster Health Forum congratulates McMaster University on the launch of the new Student Mental Health & Well-Being Strategy and website. “Mental health is gaining recognition around the... Read more -
Cochrane Canada Policy Series - Health Systems Evidence
Cochrane Canada recently released the recording from an October 2014 webinar with Dr. Kaelan Moat, discussing Health Systems Evidence - the world's most comprehensive, free access point for evidence o... Read more
