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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. He was Principal Investigator for the Health Evidence Applications and Linkage Network (HEALNet) under the National Centres of Excellence from 1999 to 2002.[5] This work with HEALNet was featured at the Fourth International Conference on the Scientific Basis of Health Services in Sidney, Australia in September 2001.[7]

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.[8] 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 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

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 i j k "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. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "EVIPNet". McMaster Health Forum. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  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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