Dr. Marilyn Macdonald, Director
marilyn.macdonald@dal.ca
Nadia Stec, Research Associate
ahnetc@dal.ca
Welcome to the Aligning Health Needs and Evidence for Transformative Change (AH-NET-C): A JBIC Centre of Excellence resources and training page. This page is a collection of resources to help you get started as a member of a knowledge synthesis team.
The Centre of Excellence is a member of the International JBI Collaboration, based at the University of Adelaide (Australia). Using JBI methodologies and methods, Dalhousie University faculty, students, and stakeholders will contribute to the transformation of healthcare in Atlantic Canada. Transformation means different models for thinking, planning, acting, and evaluating, based on the best possible available evidence. We are conducting systematic review research to look at health and wellness through a different, collaborative lens and exploring different models for service delivery based on a combination of what people need and on synthesis of the evidence.
Specific Chapters
AH-NET-C reviewers' use Covidence or JBI SUMARI to manage the workflow of a review. See below for details on how to get access to both.
Dalhousie affiliated users can request an invite to the institutional subscription by following this link and signing up or logging in with a Dalhousie email (@dal.ca). Alternatively, the review lead may send you an invitation to your email address.
JBI SUMARI is available through the JBI EBP database. Note that unlike Covidence, all users in a project must be authorized through Dalhousie or have an individual subscription. To authorize or create your account through Dalhousie, follow the following steps:
The Centre offers the JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program every spring. Email ahnetc@dal.ca to request more information about the next training opportunity.
The intensive, 5-day program is designed to prepare health sciences researchers, clinicians, librarians, graduate students, and other individuals involved in quality and practice portfolios to develop, conduct and report systematic reviews of evidence.
This activity-driven program includes rigorous methods and tools to appraise and synthesize evidence from research literature and documentary sources. Participants gain hands-on experience in drafting a systematic review protocol, including defining the question(s) and the search, retrieval, and selection of research for the review. You will critically analyze sample quantitative and qualitative research and expert opinion papers as part of the review process and be introduced to JBI software (e.g., SUMARI) for performing meta-analysis and meta-synthesis of selected studies. You will also examine the nature of evidence and its role in healthcare to understand further how evidence transfers into healthcare practice.