Dear colleagues
Don’t forget to register for our next Cochrane People, Health Systems and Public Health webinar in which Prof. Luke Wolfenden will define and discuss the application of learning health systems to improve the performance of health services and public health. He will draw on his work within the Hunter-New England region of New South Wales, Australia, to demonstrate how experimentation can be embedded withing health services and used to rapidly transform how effective health policies and programs are implemented.
Date and time: 9 September 2025. 9:00-10:00am (CET – Norway time) / 5:00-6:00pm (AEST)
Register here: https://lnkd.in/dUS-pqkR
Luke Wolfenden <https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/luke-wolfenden> is Director of the 'National Centre of Implementation Science' and of the WHO Evidence Informed Policy Network at the University of Newcastle and co-lead of the Cochrane People, Health Systems and Public Health Thematic Group <https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/who-we-are/our-groups/people-health-sy....
This promises to be an exciting webinar and I am looking forward to hearing about Luke’s experiences of transforming healthcare through continuous learning from research and routine implementation.
Best wishes
Simon
HIFA profile: Simon Lewin is a health systems researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/simon.lewin), the South African Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.za) and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (https://www.fhi.no/en/kn/ceir/). He has a keen interest in how research evidence can be used to inform decisions for health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and at the global level in multilateral organisations such as the WHO. As Co-Lead of Cochrane People, Health Systems and Public Health, he has played a key role in strengthening Cochrane’s work in the field of health systems and in developing Cochrane methods for qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane is a HIFA supporting organisation and Simon is a member of three HIFA working groups: CHWs; mHealth-Innovate (informal use of mobile phones by health workers) and Support-Systems - How can decision-making processes for health systems strengthening and universal health coverage be made more inclusive, responsive and accountable? https://www.hifa.org/support/members/simon Email: simon.lewin AT ntnu.no