Our Co-Convenor, Dr. Peter Tugwell, was awarded the 2020 Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research. This award recognizes an exceptional research in the area of health services and policy research. See https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/52166.html for more information.

Congratulations to our Co-Convenor, Dr. Vivian Welch, on her recently funded CIHR Project Grant "Improving social justice in observational studies". Co-principal investigators on this project incluse Sarah Funell, Janet Jull, and Lawrence Mbuagbaw.The goal of this project is to develop an equity extension of the STROBE (STrengthening Reporting of Observational studies) reporting guideline. The funding is for 4 years. Please see: STROBE-Equity