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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