====== John Lavis ====== {{ ::th_11_.jpeg?200|}} Dr. **John Norman Lavis**, MD, PhD is a Canadian physician based in [[canada:ontario:Toronto]], [[canada:Ontario]]. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact at [[McMaster University]]. He founded and continues to direct the [[McMaster Health Forum]] and has now launched Forum+ to expand the Forum’s work into social systems and supporting the achievement of the [[Sustainable Development Goals]].((//Team & Advisory Board.// Closing the Gap Healthcare. Retrieved September 4, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.09.05-001304/https://www.closingthegap.ca/team-advisory-board/)) ((//Home.// (2022). Social Systems Evidence. https://web.archive.org/web/20220905010644/https://www.socialsystemsevidence.org/)) Lavis has taken a leadership role in the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] through his participation in the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]] and the [[COVID-19 Evidence Network to Support Decision-Making]] (COVID-END). ===== Education ===== Lavis holds an MD from [[Queen’s University]], an MSc from the [[London School of Economics and Political Science]], and a PhD (in Health Policy) from [[Harvard University]].((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved February 2, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220202191824/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#lavis-john)) ===== History ===== Lavis was born June 11, 1965 in [[canada:quebec:Montréal]], [[canada:Quebec]].((//John Lavis CV.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved February 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220208102357/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/people-cv/lavis-cv.pdf?sfvrsn=48de52d5_30)) Lavis attended [[Queen's University]] from 1983-1989, earning his MD. He did a rotating internship at [[North York General Hospital]] through the [[University of Toronto]] from 1989-1990, after which he earned a certificate in Clinical Traineeship in [[HIV]] Infection.((//John Lavis CV.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved February 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220208102357/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/people-cv/lavis-cv.pdf?sfvrsn=48de52d5_30)) He then completed a Master of Sciences in Health Planning and Financing at [[London School of Economics and Political Science]] from 1991-1992. He worked as a research fellow at the [[Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences]] (ICES) then went to [[Harvard University]] for his PhD in Health Policy from 1994-1997. He was hired as a professor at [[McMaster University]] in September 1997.((//John N. Lavis.// LinkedIn. Retrieved September 4, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-n-lavis/)) He was given the status of Assistant Professor at the [[University of Toronto]] from January 1999 to June 2001. From 2001-2006, Lavis was a Tier 2 [[Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Uptake]]. Lavis co-developed the [[Evidence-Informed Policy Network]] (EVIPNet) alongside the [[World Health Organization]] in the mid-2000s, and he remains co-chair of the Global Steering Group.((//EVIPNet.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved June 14, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220614225121/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/lets-collaborate/networks/evipnet)) He founded the [[McMaster Health Forum]] in April 2009.((//John N. Lavis.// LinkedIn. Retrieved September 4, 2022, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-n-lavis/)) He was made co-director of the [[WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy]] in December 2010. From 2012-2017, Lavis was an Adjunct Professor of Global Health at [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]]. Lavis was awarded the Tier 1 [[Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems]] in January 2015.((//Canada Research Chair - John Lavis.// (2021, June 25). Canada Research Chairs. https://archive.ph/We1a1)) He became a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the [[University of Johannesburg]] in April 2018, and was promoted to Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy in December 2018. ==== COVID-19 pandemic ==== Lavis participated as a member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]] from 2020-2022, where he was responsible for contributing to guidance for provincial decision-making during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] in Ontario.((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved February 2, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220202191824/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#lavis-john)) He is co-lead investigator for the [[COVID-19 Evidence Network to Support Decision-Making]] (COVID-END), through which he has gathered evidence syntheses related to protocols for treatment and management of [[COVID-19]].((Lavis, J. (2020, July 20). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20220131024213/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_John-Lavis.pdf)) In this role, he also co-led [[Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges]], which published the Evidence Commission report in January 2022.((//John Lavis.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211224155126/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/stay-connected/people/bio/john-lavis)) ===== Affiliations ===== Lavis is co-lead of [[Rapid-Improvement Support and Exchange]] (RISE), Co-Director of the [[WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy]] and Adjunct Professor at the [[Africa Centre for Evidence]] at the [[University of Johannesburg]].((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved February 2, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220202191824/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/#lavis-john)) He sits as a member of the advisory board for [[Closing the Gap Healthcare]].((Lavis, J. (2020, July 20). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://web.archive.org/web/20220131024213/https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_John-Lavis.pdf)) ((//Team & Advisory Board.// Closing the Gap Healthcare. Retrieved September 4, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.09.05-001304/https://www.closingthegap.ca/team-advisory-board/)) He also chairs the Partner Executive Group for the [[Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems]] (PEERSS).((//Team & Advisory Board.// Closing the Gap Healthcare. Retrieved September 4, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.09.05-001304/https://www.closingthegap.ca/team-advisory-board/)) ((//Partnership for Evidence and Equity in Responsive Social Systems (PEERSS) (previously PERLSS).// International Development Research Centre. Retrieved September 4, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220123072613/https://www.idrc.ca/en/project/partnership-evidence-and-equity-responsive-social-systems-peerss-previously-perlss)) He has served as Associate Director of the [[Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre]].((//John Lavis.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211224155126/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/stay-connected/people/bio/john-lavis)) Additional affiliations include:((//John Lavis.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20211224155126/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/stay-connected/people/bio/john-lavis)) * [[AcademyHealth]] * [[Africa Evidence Network]] * [[Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality]] * [[Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research]] * [[Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research]] * [[Canadian Cardiovascular Society]] * [[Canadian Health Services Research Foundation]] * [[Canadian Heritage]] * [[Canadian Institute for Advanced Research]] * [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] * [[Canadian Medical Association]] * [[Canadian Population Health Initiative]] * [[Cancer Care Ontario]] * [[Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development]] * [[Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis]] (CHEPA) * [[Centre for Studies of the State and Society]] * [[Centre of Research Excellence in Integrated Quality Improvement]] * [[Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada]] * [[Commonwealth Foundation]] * [[Conference Board of Canada]] * [[Converge3]] * [[Dignitas International]] * [[European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies]] * [[Future Skills Centre]] * [[Global Evidence Synthesis Initiative]] * [[Health Evidence Applications and Linkage Network]] (HEALNet) * [[Health Systems Global]] * [[Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies]] * [[Institut de recherche et de documentation en économie de la santé]] (IRDES) * [[Institute for Health Sciences and Policy Research]] * [[Institute for Work & Health]] * [[Itla Children's Foundation]] * [[Lancet Commission on COVID-19]] * [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]] * [[Makerere University]] * [[Med-Emerg]] * [[Milbank Memorial Fund]] * [[National Institute of Public Health of Mexico]] (INSP) * [[National Medical Research Council]] * [[Ontario HIV Treatment Network]] * [[Ontario Medical Association]] * [[Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care]] * [[Ontario SPOR Support Unit]] * [[Pan American Health Organization]] * [[Quebec SPOR Support Unit]] * [[Royal Roads University]] * [[Sax Institute]] * [[St. Michael's Hospital]] * [[Toronto HIV Primary Care Physician's Group]] * [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] * [[Washington Business Group]] * [[Wellcome Trust]] * [[World Bank]] ===== Awards ===== * [[Procter & Gamble]] Canada Fulbright Scholarship (1994-95)((//John Lavis CV.// McMaster Health Forum. Retrieved February 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220208102357/https://www.mcmasterforum.org/docs/default-source/people-cv/lavis-cv.pdf?sfvrsn=48de52d5_30)) * National Health Ph.D. Fellowship (1994-97) * [[General Motors]]/[[Canadian Institute for Advanced Research]] Fellowship (1996-97)