The Centre
Left to right: Lisa McGovern, MaryEllen Schaafsma, Jeremy Grimshaw, Cheryl Arratoon, Adrienne Stevens
Centre Staff
Director, Jeremy Grimshaw (jgrimshaw doesnotexist@cochrane.org ohri.ca)
Executive Director, MaryEllen Schaafsma (mschaafs doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca)
Education Coordinator, Adrienne Stevens (astevens doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca)
Knowledge Broker, Cheryl Arratoon (carratoo doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca)
Communications Specialist, Jeanette Doucet
(jdouce2 doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca)
Administrative Assistant, Lisa McGovern (lmcgover doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca)
Administrative Assistant, J. LeAnne Parrish
(jparrish doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca)
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the CCNC was restructured in the fall of 2006 to create a smaller group of external stakeholders to advise the Centre. The new Advisory Board consists of ten members who provide a balance of high-level, strategic perspectives from across the Canadian healthcare landscape. Members come from various sectors and include clinician, research, policy and consumer representatives. These members have the capacity to strengthen the development of Cochrane activities, linkages and funding stability in Canada with their strategic advice and strong capacity for an advocacy role.
The previous Advisory Board members, consisting of a total of 47 Canadian entity, affiliate and network site representatives, still have a role of providing advice and support to the Centre by serving as a stakeholder group. They continue to provide input into strategic direction and implementation by participating in working groups and committees.
Advisory Board Members
Advisory Board Meeting Minutes 11 February, 2007 (approved September 6, 2007)
What we do
The Canadian Cochrane Centre, registered in August 1993, is one of 12 independent, not-for-profit Centres of the Collaboration worldwide located at the Institute for Population Health at the University of Ottawa. We support the activities of over 1 000 members of The Cochrane Collaboration in Canada to promote The Cochrane Collaboration, The Cochrane Library and evidence-based health care in Canada. To do this, we collaborate with health professional organizations, health researchers, health technology assessment groups, national consumer associations, governments and other interested groups.
Acting as the central contact point for the Collaboration within Canada, Centre staff aim to:
- Develop relationships with partner organizations in Canada,
- Facilitate national and international linkages,
- Coordinate training activities across Canada, and
- Promote awareness, access and use of Cochrane reviews.
The Network is a partnership of representatives from Canadian universities, health professional organizations, government agencies and consumer groups; essentially the membership of Cochrane located in Canada.
Our Vision
The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre shares The Cochrane Collaboration’s vision:
Healthcare decision-making throughout the world will be informed by high quality, timely research evidence. The Cochrane Collaboration will play a pivotal role in the production and dissemination of this evidence across all areas of health care.
While the CCNC supports the Collaboration’s worldwide efforts, our focus is on making this vision a reality in Canada.
Our Mission
To foster evidence-based healthcare decision making by identifying and supporting individuals in Canada who wish to become involved with The Cochrane Collaboration, and by promoting the awareness, appreciation, distribution and use of Cochrane systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.
Additional roles in The Cochrane Collaboration
Communications
In addition to its core functions, the Canadian Centre also performs a special communications role within The Collaboration by editing and publishing two of the Cochrane newsletters: Cochrane News, the main Collaboration newsletter published three times per year and CCInfo, a bi-weekly e-bulletin.
Le Réseau francophone Cochrane
We are pleased to announce the official registration of the Réseau francophone Cochrane (RFC) as a Branch of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. The primary goal of the Réseau is to better serve the needs of French-speaking authors and users of Cochrane reviews.
There are approximately 200 million French-speaking people around the globe. It is important that French-speaking health care providers, consumers and decision makers are reached in their own language if they are to effectively use this information. We hope that this will also make it easier for French-speaking people to become involved in producing and advocating for Cochrane and Cochrane Systematic reviews.
Dr Bernard Burnand and Myriam Rège Walther of the Health Care Evaluation Unit at the University Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland are leading the new Branch. Current members include people from France, from Belgium, the Canadian Cochrane Centre and network sites from the Canadian province of Quebec. The Dutch, Italian and German Cochrane Centres have also supported the registration of this group.
Goals of the Réseau:
• To allow a wide diffusion of the information contained in The Cochrane Library to the French- speaking countries or regions.
• To increase the number of potential users of this information source for their professional practice of the French-speaking countries or regions.
• To involve a larger number of reviewers from French-speaking countries and regions
• To train, in French, Francophone people in the use of The Cochrane Library, particularly health care professionals and librarians in hospitals and academic centres.
• To develop new methodological approaches in systematic reviews and knowledge transfer
• To support francophone contributors involved in review groups and hand-search groups by giving training and information in French.
• To contribute to hand searching in specialised journals in order to find studies published in French.
If you have any questions or would like to become involved please contact:
info doesnotexist@cochrane.org res-franco-cochrane.org or myriam.rege doesnotexist@cochrane.org chuv.ch
Annual Reports
We hope that you will enjoy reading about the work of Cochrane contributors in Canada.
Annual Report 2006
Annual Report 2005
Annual Report 2004
Annual Report 2003
Annual Report 2002
Annual Report 2001
Annual Report 2000
Annual Report 1999
Annual Report 1998
Annual Report 1996-97
Annual Report 1994-95
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. We produce the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, part of The Cochrane Library, the definitive resource for evidence-based health care.