Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin announced today that Dr Ariel Pablos-Méndez is joining the Foundation as a new Managing Director. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, 45, a physician and epidemiologist, is Director of Knowledge Management & Sharing at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. He is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health at Columbia University. He will assume his new position at the Rockefeller Foundation in April, 2007. Dr Pablos-Méndez, who joined WHO in 2004, has been working there on establishing the principles and practice of knowledge management as a core competence of public health to help bridge the gap between research and implementation.
Monitoring equity and research policy
Global public health leader joins Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation News Inquiry, 18 January 2007
WHO Board urged to act on worrying smallpox research trends
Ching LL: Third World Network, 22 January 2007
Disturbing indications that the US is expanding or intending to expand research with smallpox virus outside of WHO control and that WHO may be back-pedalling on some of its previous decisions, have led NGOs to call for a strong resolution on smallpox on the part of the Who Executive Board which meets this week in Geneva.
Accessing and understanding the evidence
Duke T, Campbell H, Ayieko P: Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(12), 922-A, December 2006
The World Health Organisation (WHO) regularly gathers, evaluates, and cites evidence to support its recommendations. How this is done varies between departments, but highly centralised processes, complex methods and expert consultations are often used. WHO guidelines are distributed to health workers and policy-makers in developing countries, but few of these people have the opportunity to be involved in the process of choosing and weighing the evidence to formulate the guidelines that are ostensibly designed for their use. Such incomplete engagement may impede ownership of WHO recommendations, and thus be an obstacle to full implementation. This editorial describes how WHO gathers, evaluates, and cites evidence to support its recommendations.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 12. Incorporating considerations of equity
Fretheim A , Schünemann A, Oxman AD: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:24, 5 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the 12th of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 13. Applicability, transferability and adaptation
Fretheim A , Schünemann A, Oxman AD: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:25, 8 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the 12th of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 14. Reporting guidelines
Fretheim A , Schünemann A, Oxman AD: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:26, 8 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the 14th of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 15. Disseminating and implementing guidelines
Fretheim A , Schünemann A, Oxman AD: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:27, 8 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the 15th of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 16. Evaluation
Oxman AD, Schunemann HJ , Fretheim A: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:28, 8 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the last of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this. The authors reviewed the literature on evaluating guidelines and recommendations, including their quality, whether they are likely to be up-to-date, and their implementation. They also considered the role of guideline developers in undertaking evaluations that are needed to inform recommendations.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 4. Managing conflicts of interests
Boyd EA, Bero LA: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:16, 1 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the fourth of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.
Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 5. Group processes
Fretheim A, Schünemann A, Oxman AD: Health Research Policy and Systems 4:17, 1 December 2006
The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the fifth of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.