Conference in Banff: 14-16 May 2025
The Pandemic Evidence Collaboration 2025 conference
Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
To identify, develop and implement strategies to generate high-quality evidence for non-pharmacological interventions during public health emergencies
- Supporting the generation of high-quality evidence for public health emergency.
- Fostering effective and efficient knowledge exchange for global public health emergency.
- Inspiring policymakers and health system leaders to incorporate high-quality evidence into decision-making.
- Increasing public understanding of the benefits and harms of the use of NPIs during global health care emergencies in different environments.
Lars Hemkens – From Certain Uncertainties to Certain Decisions: Pragmatic Study Designs in Pandemic Response
Atle Fretheim – Developing and Implementing RCTs during Public Health Emergencies
Sara Gandini – How do we Improve the Use of Research Evidence in the Decision Making Process
Verna Yiu – COVID Pandemic: A Healthcare System Response
Dominik Mertz – Balancing PPE Policy in Pandemics: Emerging evidence vs. the Precautionary Principle
Ramona Ludolph – Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response through Public Health and Social Measures Research: A Global WHO Initiative
Mark Jones – Trials and Observational Studies: Strengths and Weaknesses
Professor Gordon Guyatt – McMaster University
Annette Plüddemann – An Evidence-based approach to testing
Georgia Richards – Harnessing case reports from coroners to assess the harms of interventions deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Preventable Deaths Tracker
Oyuka Byambasuren – Silent Spreaders or Overestimated Threat? The True Role of Asymptomatic COVID-19