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John Norman Lavis, MD, PhD is a Canadian physician based in Toronto, Ontario. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at McMaster University, where he founded and directs the McMaster Health Forum.[1][2] He is co-lead of Rapid-Improvement Support and Exchange (RISE).

Lavis serves as the director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy and chairs the Advisory Committee on Health Research to the Pan American Health Organization.[3] He additionally holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems.[4]

He has co-led various research and policy development activities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, including participation on the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table and the COVID-19 Evidence Network to Support Decision-Making (COVID-END).

Background

Lavis was born June 11, 1965 in Montréal, Quebec.[5]

Education

Lavis earned his MD at Queen's University at Kingston from 1983-1989, at which time he joined the Canadian Medical Association and the Ontario Medical Association.[5] He did a rotating internship at North York General Hospital through the University of Toronto from 1989-1990, earning him a certificate in Clinical Traineeship in HIV Infection. He then completed a Master of Sciences in Health Planning and Financing at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1991-1992, and briefly worked as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Health Policy Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[5]

He worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) then attended Harvard University for his PhD in Health Policy from 1994-1997.[6] During the summer of 1995 he worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Work and Health, returning again in June 1996 until his Harvard graduation in 1997.[5]

Career

Lavis was hired as a professor at McMaster University in September 1997. He was given the status of Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto from January 1999 to June 2001. From 2001-2006, Lavis was a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Uptake.

Lavis co-developed the Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) alongside the World Health Organization in the mid-2000s, and he remains co-chair of the Global Steering Group.[7] He founded the McMaster Health Forum in April 2009. He was made co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy in December 2010. From 2012-2017, Lavis was an Adjunct Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[5]

Lavis' work with the Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network (HEALNet) was featured at the Fourth International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services in Sidney, Australia in September 2001.[8]

Lavis was awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems in January 2015.[4] He became a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of Johannesburg in April 2018, and was promoted to Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy in December 2018.

COVID-19 pandemic

Lavis participated as a member of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table from 2020-2022, where he was responsible for contributing to guidance for provincial decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario.[6]

He is co-lead investigator for the COVID-19 Evidence Network to Support Decision-Making (COVID-END), through which he has gathered evidence syntheses related to protocols for treatment and management of COVID-19 since April 2020.[5][9] In this role, he also co-led the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges, which published the Evidence Commission report in January 2022.[10]

Lavis participated as a speaker at the March 2022 Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) conference.[11]

Research

Lavis' work includes a "taxonomy of health system topics", and "surveys... that directly support the use of research evidence in developing health policy".[12][13][14][15]

As the Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems, Lavis is evaluating how governments prepare themselves and make decisions relating to public health policy.[4] This work is focused both on COVID-19 and long-standing health crises in Canada.

Other activities

  • Africa Centre for Evidence, Adjunct Professor[6]
  • Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), Member (1996-2018)[2][5]
  • Closing the Gap Healthcare, Advisory Board member[9][16]
  • Health Systems Global, Member (2012-present)[5]
  • Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, Associate Director[2]
  • Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems, Partner Executive Group Chair[16][17]

References

  1. ^ "Lavis, John Norman". The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  2. ^ a b c "John Lavis". McMaster Health Forum. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  3. ^ PAHO TV (2013-01-11), John Lavis on research for health in the Americas, Hamilton 2012, retrieved 2019-03-17
  4. ^ a b c "Canada Research Chair - John Lavis". Canada Research Chairs. 2021-06-25. Archived from the original on 2022-09-04. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "John Lavis CV" (PDF). McMaster Health Forum. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-02-08. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  6. ^ a b c "About Us". Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Archived from the original on 2022-02-02. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  7. ^ "EVIPNet". McMaster Health Forum. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  8. ^ Goel, Vivek; Royce, Diana (Summer 2003). "Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network (HEALNet) Accomplishments and Impacts 1995-2002" (PDF). Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-03-31. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  9. ^ a b Lavis, John (2020-07-20). "Declaration of Interest" (PDF). Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  10. ^ Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges (2022-01-27). "The Evidence Commission report: A wake-up call and path forward for decisionmakers, evidence intermediaries, and impact-oriented evidence producers" (PDF). McMaster Health Forum. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-08-02. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  11. ^ "Speaker bio: John Lavis". CEDIL-Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  12. ^ Lavis, John. "Please do not copy, quote or cite without the lead author's permission". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2019-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ Lavis, John. "Please do not copy, quote or cite without the lead author's permission". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2019-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Lavis, John. "Please do not copy, quote or cite without the lead author's permission". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2019-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ Lavis, John. "Please do not copy, quote or cite without the lead author's permission". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2019-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ a b "Team & Advisory Board". Closing the Gap Healthcare. Archived from the original on 2022-09-05. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  17. ^ "Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS) (previously PERLSS)". International Development Research Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
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