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Slides from Sept 24, 2025 Open Equity Meeting

Mission and Vision

Promote equity in evidence synthesis and increase global capacity to consider equity and to promote the use of equity-relevant evidence in health and healthcare decision-making

Governance Structure

Advisory Group: Provides strategic guidance and implementation advice related to the overall direction and goals of the thematic group. Attends quarterly meetings. Meet the members!

Core Management Team: Oversees all group activities and operations. Responsible for making key decisions, guiding the organization's policies and procedures, and ensuring its effectiveness.

Objective Coordination Leads: Communicate with the project teams within the objective. Work with the other objective coordination leads to identify opportunities for collaboration. Attend regular meetings with the core management team.

Project Leads: Leading a project under one of the objectives.

Equity Group Members: Receive monthly newsletter. Invited to open equity meetings

Core Management Team

	Peter Tugwell, MD	Vivian Welch, PhD	Jordi Pardo Pardo
	Lara Maxwell, PhD	Jennifer Petkovic, PhD	Shawna Grosskleg

Objective Coordination Leads

Objective 1: Methods	Jennifer Petkovic, PhD

Objective 2: Engagement	Joanne Khabsa, MSc	Olivia Magwood, PhD

Objective 3: Capacity	Ashrita Saran, PhD

Objective 4: Prioritization	Lara Maxwell, PhD	Roses Parker, PhD

Objective 5: Guidelines	Jordi Pardo Pardo	Andrea Darzi, MD, PhD	Omar Dewidar, MSc

Objective 6: DEI	Tamara Lotfi, MD, MPH

Project Leads

Objective 1: Methods	Meera Viswanathan, PhD	Shaun Treweek, PhD	Damian Francis, PhD	Kylie Porritt, PhD

	Zack Marshall, PhD	Hugh Waddington, PhD	Catrin Evans, PhD

Objective 2: Engagement	Jennifer Petkovic, PhD	Joanne Khabsa, MSc	Olivia Magwood, PhD

Objective 3: Capacity	Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, PhD	Janet Hatcher Roberts, MSc

Objective 4: Prioritization	Alison Riddle, PhD	Rebecca Glover, PhD	Jordi Pardo Pardo	Lara Maxwell, PhD

Objective 5: Guidelines	Andrea Darzi, MD, PhD	Omar Dewidar, MSc

Objective 6: DEI	Tamara Lotfi, MD, MPH

Past Fellows

	Miranda Lesperance, PhD	Shahab Sayfi, MSc	Ekta Priya

	Eve Tomlinson, MSc	Ammar Saad, MD

Objective 1 - Methods: Promote equity in the evidence base

equity in evidence synthesis (e.g. equity in all Cochrane reviews)
equity in other study designs (e.g. STROBE Equity extension)

Objective 2 - Engagement: Ensure equitable processes for interest holder engagement

stakeholder engagement (e.g. guidance for engagement in evidence synthesis)

Objective 3 - Capacity: Build capacity for equity design, analysis, and reporting

capacity building (e.g. capacity building for evidence synthesis)
knowledge translation (e.g. collections of plain language summaries of equity-relevant reviews)

Objective 4 - Prioritization: Produce high-priority, equity-focused evidence synthesis

production (e.g. conducting equity-focused systematic reviews on priority topics --- see current list of priorities)
priority setting (e.g. prioritizing equity-focused systematic reviews)

Objective 5 - Guidelines: Promote equity in implementation tools

equity in guidelines (e.g. GRADE-equity, guidance for equity in guideline development, equity in specific guidelines)

Objective 6 - DEI: Support DEI within Cochrane

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