Our Centre

Centre Staff (Ottawa):

Director, Jeremy Grimshaw (jgrimshaw@ohri.ca)

Executive Director, Mary Ellen Schaafsma (mschaafs@uottawa.ca)

Education Coordinator, Adrienne Stevens (astevens@uottawa.ca)

Knowledge Broker, Cheryl Arratoon (carratoo@uottawa.ca)

Communications Specialist, Lori Tarbett (ltarbett@uottawa.ca)

Administrative Assistant, Lisa McGovern (lmcgover@uottawa.ca)

Policy Liaison Office at McMaster University: Knowledge Translation for Policymakers

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange, John N.Lavis (lavisj@mcmaster.ca)

Knowledge Broker, Lori Greco (lgreco@mcmaster.ca)


Advisory Board

The Advisory Board of the CCNC was restructured in the fall of 2006 to create a smaller group of external stakeholders to advise the Centre. The new Advisory Board consists of ten members who provide a balance of high-level, strategic perspectives from across the Canadian healthcare landscape. Members come from various sectors and include clinician, research, policy and consumer representatives. These members have the capacity to strengthen the development of Cochrane activities, linkages and funding stability in Canada with their strategic advice and strong capacity for an advocacy role.

The previous Advisory Board members, consisting of a total of 47 Canadian entity, affiliate and network site representatives, still have a role of providing advice and support to the Centre by serving as a stakeholder group.  They continue to provide input into strategic direction and implementation by participating in working groups and committees.

Advisory Board Members

Advisory Board Meeting Minutes 11 February, 2007 (approved September 6, 2007)

What we do

The Canadian Cochrane Centre, registered in August 1993, is one of 13 independent, not-for-profit Centres of the Collaboration worldwide located at the Institute for Population Health at the University of Ottawa. We support the activities of over 1,600 members of The Cochrane Collaboration in Canada to promote The Cochrane Collaboration, The Cochrane Library and evidence-based health care in Canada. To do this, we collaborate with health professional organizations, health researchers, health technology assessment groups, national consumer associations, governments and other interested groups.

Acting as the central contact point for the Collaboration within Canada, Centre staff aim to:

• Develop relationships with partner organizations in Canada,
• Facilitate national and international linkages,
• Coordinate training activities across Canada, and
• Promote awareness, access and use of Cochrane reviews.

The Network is a partnership of representatives from Canadian universities, health professional organizations, government agencies and consumer groups; essentially the membership of Cochrane located in Canada.

Our Vision

The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre shares The Cochrane Collaboration’s vision:
Healthcare decision-making throughout the world will be informed by high quality, timely research evidence. The Cochrane Collaboration will play a pivotal role in the production and dissemination of this evidence across all areas of health care.

While the CCNC supports the Collaboration’s worldwide efforts, our focus is on making this vision a reality in Canada.

Our Mission

To foster evidence-based healthcare decision making by identifying and supporting individuals in Canada who wish to become involved with The Cochrane Collaboration, and by promoting the awareness, appreciation, distribution and use of Cochrane systematic reviews of healthcare interventions.

Strategic plan 2005-2010

Additional roles in The Cochrane Collaboration

Communications

In addition to its core functions, the Canadian Centre also performs a special communications role within The Collaboration by editing and publishing two of the Cochrane newsletters: Cochrane News, the main Collaboration newsletter published three times per year and CCInfo, a bi-weekly e-bulletin.

Le Réseau francophone Cochrane

We are pleased to announce the official registration of the Réseau francophone Cochrane (RFC) as a Branch of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. The primary goal of the Réseau is to better serve the needs of French-speaking authors and users of Cochrane reviews. 

Reference Centre

The Canadian Cochrane Centre is pleased to provide support to the countries and territories of French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre et Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna.

Annual Reports

We hope that you will enjoy reading about the work of Cochrane contributors in Canada.

Annual Report 2008
Annual Report 2007
Annual Report 2006
Annual Report 2005
Annual Report 2004
Annual Report 2003
Annual Report 2002
Annual Report 2001
Annual Report 2000
Annual Report 1999
Annual Report 1998
Annual Report 1996-97
Annual Report 1994-95


The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation, providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. We produce the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, part of The Cochrane Library, the definitive resource for evidence-based health care.