National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

This forum was originally created to allow for discussions to continue from a Fall ’09 workshop focused on “Building Community Partnerships for Health Promotion”. Since then, a number of new threads related to this topic have been started. Ask questions, share your experiences and highlight evidence that you may have accessed to facilitate the development of community partnerships.

Are you involved in planning public health programs or policies? Looking for resources to help guide the process? Looking for tools for a particular stage of the planning process? Share your experiences, tips and resources related to evidence-informed program and policy planning.

The Online Health Program Planner (OHPP) was launched in the spring of 2009. This forum was created as a place to post questions and seek advice from experts on how to use this planning tool.

Working through an NCCMT online learning module and have a question? Use this forum to post general questions you have about our online modules.

Are you working through the Critical Appraisal of Intervention Studies (CAIS) module? Use this forum to post questions, discuss issues and share your experiences while working through the CAIS module.

Is your organization undergoing a transformation to enhance the use of research evidence in its day to day work? Are you looking to implement an evidence-informed program/policy across your organization? Interested in sharing resources and tips to help your organization get ready to implement this change? Use this forum to ask questions, share your experiences and highlight evidence that you may have accessed to support evidence-informed decision making at the organization level.

This discussion forum was created as a follow-up from the May 2011 “Evidence-Informed Decision Making Workshop” held at McMaster University.
The forum is a virtual ‘journal club’ where participants can continue to develop their research critical appraisal skills.

This forum is an opportunity for you to post questions and clarify issues, share information and resources and discuss your experiences with implementing evidence in your public health decisions. In this highly accessed forum, you will find resources and information, including real-world illustrations, related to each step of the evidence-informed public health “wheel.”