Episode overview

In this episode, guests Andrea Tricco and Linda Wilhelm discuss the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance, a pan-Canadian initiative designed to promote evidence-informed health policy and practice change. They describe the Alliance’s key activities, including the process for healthcare decision and policy makers and patients and the public to submit research queries to the Alliance, explain different ways to get involved, and offer tips and resources for academic researchers and patients and care partners looking to engage/be engaged in research.

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Meet our guests

Linda Wilhelm was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis in 1983 at the age of 23. After many years of unsuccessful treatments the disease was finally managed through the arrival of biologics. Linda is a founding member and current President of The Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance (CAPA) and a patient partner with the SPOR Evidence Alliance and The Chronic Pain research networks.

Dr. Andrea C. Tricco is a Scientist and Director of the Knowledge Synthesis Team in the Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. Dr. Tricco is also the Nominated Principal Investigator of the SPOR Evidence Alliance funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The Alliance is a pan-Canadian initiative with the potential to improve patient care through national coordination of knowledge synthesis, knowledge translation, implementation and clinical practice guideline development.

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