The IHC network

Dr Astrid Dahlgren
Associate professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
Astrid is primarily responsible for the development and evaluation of the CLAIM measurement tool as part of the IHC project.

Sir Iain Chalmers
Coordinator, James Lind Initiative, Oxford, U.K. Iain is a health services researcher.
He is a founder of the Cochrane Collaboration and Testing Treatments interactive.

Dr Signe Flottorp
Senior researcher, Department for Knowledge Synthesis, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Signe is a specialist in general practice and health services researcher who has studied guidelines and guideline implementation for over 20 years.

Dr Atle Fretheim
Director of Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Atle is a physician and health systems researcher whose research focuses on global health, methods for evaluating health service interventions, and use of research in policymaking.

Dr Claire Glenton
Senior researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Claire is a social anthropologist and health services researcher studying ways of communicating research evidence to consumers.

Dr Simon Lewin
Senior researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Simon is a physician and health systems researcher from Zimbabwe with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Dr Andrew Oxman
Research Director, Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Andy is a public health physician and health services researcher who has studied ways of helping people to make informed health care choices for 30 years.

Dr Sarah Rosenbaum
Designer and researcher, Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
Sarah is an award-winning designer and design researcher. She has led several studies to develop resources for evidence-informed decision-making.

Prof Paul Glasziou
Director, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Paul is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University. He was the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford from 2003-2010.

Jose Ignacio Emparanza
Clinical Epidemiology Unit. Osakidetza Basque Health Service,  Donostia University Hospital, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, San Sebastian, Spain

Iratxe Urreta
General Practitioner, Clinical Epidemiology Unit in Donostia University Hospital. She is the Clinical Epidemiology group leader in the Biodonostia Health Research Institute and member of CASPe (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme in Spanish)

Eukene Ansuategi
Health Information librarian, Osakidetza Basque Health Service , Donostia University Hospital, Medical Library, San Sebastian, Spain. She has coordinated the Basque version of Testing Treatments Interactive. Member of CASPe (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme in Spanish)

Marimar Ubeda
Health librarian and information specialist, Osakidetza Basque Health Service , Donostia University Hospital, Medical Library, San Sebastian, Spain. Member of CASPe (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme in Spanish). She is an editor of Testing Treatments interactive Euskara.

Dr. Joana Bisol Balardin
Researcher, Hospital Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Joana research interests span the interface between health, education and neuroscience. She is primarily responsible for translating and testing of the IHC primary school resources in Brazil.

Dr. Edson Amaro Jr
Senior Researcher, Hospital Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Edson leads a national initiative on Big Data analytics to population health in Brazil, works as a neuroradiologist in private practice, and does research in neuroimaging and neuroscience.

Dr. Márcio Galvão de Oliveira
Professor, Federal University of Bahia, Vitória da Conquista, BA, Brazil
Márcio is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Evidence Based Health Care, with expertise in community health evaluation and interventions in underserved populations.

Dr Gabriel Rada
President and Director, Epistemonikos Foundation, Santiago, Chile
Gabriel is a physician and researcher working on innovative ways of bringing reliable health information to decision makers.

Dr Yaolong Chen
Professor, Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Yaolong is the co-director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Guideline Implementation and Knowledge Translation.
He is the director of Chinese GRADE Centre.

Ms Qi Wang
PhD student, McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Qi is an editor of Testing Treatments interactive Chinese.

Prof Kehu Yang
Professor, Evidence-Based Medicine Center of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Kehu is the director of Evidence-Based Medicine Center and Evidence-Based Social Science Research Center at Lanzhou University.

Lou Aisenberg
Partnership Manager for the Innovations, Data and Experiments in Education programme, led by J-PAL Europe
Lou is in charge of developing new partnerships, capacity building opportunities and resources to promote evidence generation and use in education in France.
Prior to joining J-PAL Europe, she worked on a range of educational issues and policies, as a Programme Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and previously as a Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Dr Francesco Avvisati
Director of the Innovations, Data and Experiments in Education programme, led by J-PAL Europe
Francesco leads and coordinates the different strands of the IDEE programme.
Prior to joining J-PAL Europe, he worked for eleven years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as an Economist and most recently as a Chief methodologist for international education and skills surveys, including PISA.

Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi
Dentist, Founder and manager of Dahaan, Translation manager at Cochrane Iran Associate Centre, Vice-chair at Early Career Professionals Cochrane group

Sara Moradi
Dental student at Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Steering group member at Dahaan, Volunteer translator at Cochrane Iran Associate Centre

Pouria Iranparvar
Dental student at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Steering group member at Dahaan, Volunteer translator at Cochrane Iran Associate Centre

Maryam Shakiba
Dental student at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Steering group member at Dahaan, Volunteer translator at Cochrane Iran Associate Centre

Faith Chelagat
University of Oslo, Norway and Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
Faith is currently a PhD fellow in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Prof Margaret Kaseje
Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
Margaret is a policy and public health specialist with more than 20 years of experience in senior management.

Marlyn Ochieng
Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
Marlyn is currently a researcher in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi
Dentist, Founder and manager of Dahaan, Translation manager at Cochrane Iran Associate Centre, Vice-chair of the Early Career Professionals Cochrane group.

Nasibe Barani
MS. Student, Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Science Journalist and Manager of Hojan Kurdish Scientific NGO.

Jino Zobairy
Department of German Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

Dr Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola
Co-Director Cochrane Mexico, Sinaloa Pediatric Hospital, Culiacán, Mexico
Giordano leads an evidence-based practice department in a public pediatric hospital, works as a pediatrician in private practice, and is the co-director of the Mexican Cochrane Branch.

Ms Angela Morelli
Information and science designer, Infodesignlab, Oslo, Norway
Angela is an award-winning information designer with over 10 years’ experience designing scientific information in collaboration with a number of research organizations. She is co-founder and CEO of InfoDesignLab.

Mr Matt Oxman
Researcher and journalist, Oslo, Norway
Matt is lead author of the first Informed Health Choices learning resources: The Health Choices Book and the Health Choices Programme (podcast). He was a guinea pig for the Informed Health Choices project.

Michael Mugisha
University of Oslo, Norway and School of Public Health, and College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.  Michael is currently a PhD fellow in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Dr Laetitia Nyirazinyoye
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
Laetitia is in the Department of Community Health, with expertise in qualitative and mixed methods.

Clarisse Marie Claudine Simibi
School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.
Clarisse is currently a researcher in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Dr Pablo Alonso-Coello
Senior researcher, Biomedical Research Institute (CIBERESP-IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
Pablo’s research has focused on guideline development and methods. He is the Director of the Scientific Committee of Spain’s National Guideline Program’s coordinating body, GuiaSalud.

Dr Laura Martínez García
Senior researcher, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau –
Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Barcelona, Spain
Laura’s research has focused on methodological research and updating of clinical guidelines. She is primarily responsible for translate and testing of the IHC primary school resources in Spain.

Solomon Kevin Mugagga

Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
Currently a researcher in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Esther Nakyejwe

Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
Currently a researcher in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Dr Allen Nsangi
Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
Allen was primarily responsible for development and testing of the IHC primary school resources in Uganda. She is currently a researcher in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Dr Daniel Semakula
Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
Dan was primarily responsible for development and testing of the IHC podcast in Uganda. He is currently a researcher in CHOICE  – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Prof Nelson Sewankambo
Professor of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda
Nelson previously was Dean of the School of Medicine and the first Principal of the College of Health Sciences.

Ronald Ssenyonga
University of Oslo, Norway and Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
Ronald is currently a PhD fellow in CHOICE – a project to develop and evaluate digital IHC secondary school resources in East Africa.

Prof Steve Higgins
Professor in the School of Education, Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, UK
Steve was a primary school teacher, and the founding Director of the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle University before moving to Durham in 2006

Prof Steven Woloshin
Co-Director, Center for Medicine and the Media, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, US
Steven is a Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth and has worked to improve the communication of evidence to the public, journalists, doctors and policymakers.

Vanesa Ringle
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Incoming Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Lehigh University
Vanesa led a US contextualization research project of the IHC podcast. She is clinical psychologist and researcher with expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods focused on consumer, therapist, and policy strategies for increasing the implementation of evidence-based mental health services in under-resourced community settings.

Drs Connie Compare and Francis Fair
Connie and Francis are general practitioners and professors. They teach and research informed health decision-making. They are main characters in The Health Choices Book.

John and Julie
John and Julie are primary school pupils and siblings. They are main characters in The Health Choices Book.

Kasuku (FKA Prattle)
Kasuku is a troublemaker! Kasuku repeats claims about treatment effects without thinking carefully.