Our contributors
Convenors
Mark Petticrew is Associate Director of the MRC Social and Public Health Science Unit in Glasgow where he heads a research programme on evaluation, specifically with a view to identifying policy-level and other interventions to reduce health inequalities. Ongoing primary studies include prospective controlled studies of the health impacts of new social housing and regeneration, and transport and other interventions. He is also Coordinator of the ESRC Centre for Evidence Based Public Health Policy, a research centre which carries out systematic reviews of public health and social interventions. Ongoing systematic reviews include reviews of housing and regeneration, and transport and employment policies. The Centre also carries out systematic reviews of qualitative research.
Prof Mark Petticrew
Public & Environmental Health Research Unit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Room 34a, Keppel Street
London WC1E 7HT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)207 027 2009
Email: Mark.Petticrew doesnotexist@cochrane.org lshtm.ac.uk
Peter Tugwell is Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Equity. He is the Director for the Centre for Global Health which has a major focus upon interventions in the disadvantaged. Dr. Tugwell is co-director of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Technology Assessment that is oriented towards methodologic problems in needs-based technology assessment in lower and middle income countries (LMIC). Ongoing projects include national and international projects in defining and comparing the different strategies for knowledge translation of evidence with an emphasis on inequity in the consumer, the practitioner, and the policy maker.
Dr. Peter Tugwell
Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health
University of Ottawa
1 Stewart Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel: 1-613-562-5800 ext. 1945
Fax: 1-613-562-5659
Email: elacasse doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca
Administrator
Erin Morris works full-time as the administrator of the Cochrane Health Equity Field and Campbell Equity Methods Group. Her background is in epidemiology and health sciences. Past research studies include smoking and bullying in Ontario adolescents, home care workers' perceptions of the labour market, and hepatitis C rates in first-time blood donors.
Erin Morris
Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health
University of Ottawa
1 Stewart Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel: 1-613-562-5800 ext. 1963
Fax: 1-613-562-5659
Email: emorris doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca
Trial Search Coordinator
Jessie McGowan is a research librarian who specializes in literature searching and evidence-based methodologies. She collaborates with the knowledge translation strategic research resource for CAN (Canadian Arthritis Network) to develop knowledge translation tools. She helps where possible with TSC issues for EPOC, CSMG and the Equity Field and is co-convenor of the Cochrane Information Methods Retrieval Group. She is currently conducting a systematic review on access to electronic resources. She is also Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the National Network of Libraries for Health, a task force of Canadian Health Libraries Association / l'association des bibliotheques de la sante du Canada whose goal is to provide equitable access to all health care providers in Canada.
Jessie McGowan
Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health
University of Ottawa
1 Stewart Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel: 1-613-562-5800 ext. 2359
Fax: 1-613-562-5659
Email: jmcgowan doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca
Advisory Group
Elizabeth (Betsy) Kristjansson is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She is a health measurement expert whose research focuses on the spatial dimensions of health and health inequalities, food insecurity, and health and social indicators. Another primary research interest is in interventions to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health. Professor Kristjansson is also interested in researching methods for detecting and understanding potentially biased items and in general psychometric work.
Dr. Elizabeth Kristjansson
University of Ottawa
Montpetit Hall, Room 407C
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Tel: 1-613-562-5800 ext. 2329
Fax: 1-613-562-5659
Email: kristjan doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca
Erin Morris
As above.
Mark Petticrew
As above.
Vivian Welch (formerly Robinson), MSc, is currently a PhD candidate in Population Health at the Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa. Vivian's research interests include knowledge translation, systematic reviews, clinical practice guideline development, health economics, global health, and health equity. Vivian is a member of the international Grading Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) working group, the Cochrane Collaboration advisory committee on summaries of findings and the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN).
Vivian Welch
Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health
University of Ottawa
1 Stewart Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel: 1-613-562-5800 ext. 2921
Fax: 1-613-562-5659
Email: vivian.welch doesnotexist@cochrane.org uottawa.ca
Peter Tugwell
As above.
International Advisory Board
The Advisory Board serves as the central coordinating body and provides guidance on the Field's scope, review methods, sources of evidence funding, dissemination and related issues. Members advise on priorities and possible collaborations, monitor progress and liaise with other Cochrane and non-Cochrane organizations to promote the Field. Members also comment on draft documentation.
Board Members:
Luis Gabriel Cuervo (Colombia/UK)
Tony Dans (Philippines)
Elizabeth Kristjansson (Canada)
Ron Labonte (Canada)
Rene Loewenson (Zimbabwe)
Johan Mackenbach (Netherlands)
Andy Oxman (Norway)
Mark Petticrew (UK)
Peter Tugwell (Canada)
Jimmy Volmink (South Africa)
Elizabeth Waters (Australia)
Mailing List
Our current mailing list includes 160 people, with many members from outside the Collaborations. The following people have generously contributed their time, ideas, and energy to the work of the Cochrane Health Equity Field and Campbell Equity Methods Group:
Naomi Adelson, Obi Aginam, Denise Alcock, Claire Allen, Joan Anderson, Ian Anderson, Laurie M. Anderson, Rebecca Armstrong, Amir Attaran, Philip Baker, Julie Beaulac, Morton Beiser, Lisa Bero, Arild Bjørndal, Xavier Bonfill, Madelaine Boscoe, Louise Bouchard, Kevin Brand, Gilles Breton, Gail Bryant, Brenda L. Cameron, Paul Caulford, Kathie Clark, Barbara Clow, Luis Gabriel Cuervo Amore, Antonio Da Cunha, Inday Dans, Tony Dans, Philip Davies, Jane Dennis, Marion Doull, Jodie Doyle, Lise Dubois, Brenda Elias, Mark Engel, Cindy Farquhar, Zbys Fedorowicz, John Feightner, Daniel Francis, Charles Frankish, Anita Gagnon, Paul Garner, Nicolas Georganas, David Gough, Sherry L. Grace, Jean Gray, Jeremy Grimshaw, Russ Gruen, Davidson Gwatkin, Theresa Gyorkos, Nadia Hamel, Camille Hammond, Angela Harden, Jan Hatcher-Roberts, Christine Heidebrecht, Clyde Hertzman, Ben Hickling, Sophie Hill, Jeanette J Holden, Stephen Hwang, Leanne Idzerda, Gro Jamtvedt, Axelle Janczur, Grace M. Johnston, Hamid Jorjani, Maria Judd, Danielle Julien, Josephine Kavanagh, Mike Kelly, Gail Kennedy, Andrew Kennedy, Judy King, Steve Randolph Kisely, Jude Kornelsen, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Ronald Labonte, Mylene Lagarde, Mary Ann Lansang, John Lavis, Anne M Leis, Anja Leuders, Simon Lewin, Julia Littell, Rene Loewenson, John Lynch, Geraldine MacDonald, Sally Macintyre, Johan Mackenbach, Ntunga Masozera, Stephen Matlin, Lara Maxwell, Alain Mayhew, Anne McCarthy, Mary Ann McColl, P. Lynn McDonald, Lisa McGovern, Jessie McGowan, Sally McIntyre, Terry Mitchell, David Moher, Lorenzo Moja, Erin Morris, Kath Moser, Wendy Muckle, Miranda Mugford, Bonnie-Day Nagy, Rama C. Nair, Mona Nasser, Cordell Neudorf, Vic Neufeld, Peter Newman, Annette O'Connor, Gina Ogilvie, David Ogilvie, Sandy Oliver, Zulma Ortiz, Andy Oxman, Jacqueline Oxman-Martinez, Anita Palepu, Natasha. Palmer, Thomas Pantoja, Mark Petticrew, Jennie Popay, Kevin Pottie, Louise Potvin, Megan Prictor, Dominique Robert, Louise Robert, Helen Roberts, Paula Rochon, Lori Ross, Shirley Roy, Ana Lucia Ruggiero, Ritu Sadana, Elizabeth Saewyc, Ximena Ramos Salas, Nancy Santesso, Mary Ellen Schaafsma, Roberta Scherer, Ted Schrecker, Alex Scott-Samuel, Bev Shea, Trevor Sheldon, Ian Shemilt, Alan Shiell, Jean Shoveller, Chitr Sitthi-Amorn, Haluk Soydan, Megan Stepushyn, Miriam Stewart, Wu Taixaing, Michael Tang, Valerie Tarasuk, Helen Thomas, Peter Tugwell, Mark W. Tyndall, Jeffrey C. Valentine, Patrick Villeneuve, Vasilly Vlossov, Jimmy Volmink, Mark Walker, Elizabeth Waters, Vivian Welch, George Wells, Margaret Whitehead, Allison Williams, Lewis Williams, Albert Yeung.