EVIPNet Workshop on Policy Briefs and Deliberative Dialogues March 2011

Presented by Tomás Pantoja (EVIPNet Resource Group, Alliance HPSR EtoP M&E Fellow) and developed with contributions by Luis Gabriel Cuervo (EVIPNet Americas Secretariat) and

Evelina Chapman (EVIPNet Americas Coordinator)

Developing Policy Briefs and Deliberative Dialogues

2nd EVIPNet-Americas Workshop

Final Report

Santiago, Chile, March 7-11, 2011

mailto:[email protected]



EVIPNet Workshop Santiago de Chile 2011 - Policy Briefs & Deliberative Dialogues

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summary 3

Background 4

Workshop preparations (2009-2010) 6

Workshop Santiago de Chile (2011) 6

Objectives 6

Participants 7

Methodological approach 7

Evaluation 9

Satellite seminar 9

Follow up 10

Deliverables 10

Annex 1: List of participants 12

Annex 2: Agenda 14

Annex 3: Summary of the evaluation 15

Annex 4A: Policy brief template (in Spanish) 16

Annex 4B: Policy brief template (in English) 34

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SUMMARY

EVIPNet Americas is a flagship Pan American Health (PAHO) initiative aimed at strengthening national health research

systems (NRHS) in line with PAHO’s Policy on Research for Health and the Strategy on Research for Health of the World Health

Organization—both official documents approved by the Governments, Ministers of Health. PAHO’s policy was approved

during the 49th Directing Council 2009 and WHO’s during the 63rd World Health Assembly, 2010 (WHO’s).1

On March 2011 an EVIPNet Americas a 5-day capacity building workshop was organized in Santiago, Chile by the Health

Policy & Systems Research Unit and the Center for Public Policies, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUCC).2, 3 This

was done: in coordination with the EVIPNet Americas Secretariat, at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the

EVIPNet Secretariat at the World Health Organization (WHO);4 with technical support from the SUPPORT Collaboration;5 and

with financial support from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR).6 Eight EVIPNet Americas teams with

representatives from 9 countries participated in the workshop.

The workshop allowed

advancing technical skills

and focused on enabling

participants to advance

the development of policy

briefs and to prepare

deliberative dialogues that

will be completed in 2011.

This report assesses the

short term outcomes of

this workshop and lays out

the expected follow up and

developments.

1 http://www.paho.org/researchportal/policy2 http://unipss.cl/3 http://politicaspublicas.uc.cl/4 http://www.paho.org/ResearchPortal5 http://www.support-collaboration.org/6 http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/en/

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http://www.paho.org/researchportal/policy

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http://www.support-collaboration.org/

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BACKGROUND

The Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) is an innovative initiative that offers a systems approach towards

strengthening health systems and health research systems through the systematic integration of research evidence into

policies for health, especially at the national level, with the aim of improving health systems, equity and health. As a network,

it brings efficiencies including the sharing of resources and exchanges of ideas.

The initiative was the brainchild of the Subcommittee for the Use of Research Evidence of the World Health Organization’s

Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR). As a flagship knowledge translation initiative of WHO, EVIPNet establishes

partnerships between national level policy-makers, researchers, civil society, and regional knowledge translation experts;

it facilitates integrating research evidence and other forms of knowledge for policy development and implementation; it

offers a sound approach to PAHO/WHO’s technical cooperation; it makes good use of effective knowledge translation tools

integrating the best research evidence with other valuable information relevant to local context including local priorities and

interests of different stakeholders.7

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of WHO (a.k.a. AMRO or PAHO/

WHO). In 2007 PAHO invited those countries that were requesting technical cooperation aimed at promoting a systematic

integration of research into policy and health care delivery, to participate in the EVIPNet initiative. The call was headed by

Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico (both the national government and a Mexico–USA border office), Puerto

Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago and teams from these countries (including the local PAHO Research Focal Point) participated in

the launch of EVIPNet Americas in July 2007 and expressed local commitment and support from their health authorities. The

meeting got participants acquainted with the goals of EVIPNet and helped them in identifying the skills that are needed in

functional EVIPNet teams able to prepare work proposals and implement knowledge translation tools.8 Typically these teams

were led by senior public health officers and included representatives from leading institutions in health policy development,

science & technology, academia, research for health, public health institutes and civil society.8

Since the 2007 launch the Secretariat of EVIPNet Americas has also received expressions of interest in joining the initiative by

representatives from Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru. The EVIPNet Americas teams are supported by a regional

network of experts from methodology and thematic fields (e.g. research methods, priority setting, policy development, health

systems research, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economy, grant application writing, etc.) such as experts affiliated to the

SUPPORT Collaboration. The EVIPNet Americas Secretariat has also facilitated the adaptation, publication and translation of key

reference materials making them available in open access platforms in relevant languages (i.e. English, Spanish, Portuguese

and French).9 Guidance to advance this process has been provided by the PAHO/WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research.10

7 Hamid M et al. EVIPNet: translating the spirit of Mexico. Lancet 2005;366:1758-9.8 EVIPNet Americas Secretariat. EVIPNet Americas: informing policies with evidence. Lancet 2008;372:1130-1311. Available from

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61459-2/fulltext 9 http://www.paho.org/researchportal 10 http://bit.ly/ACHR_PAHO

http://www.support-collaboration.org/

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61459-2/fulltext

http://www.paho.org/researchportal

http://bit.ly/ACHR_PAHO

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A consensus was reached by the EVIPNet Americas Secretariat, country teams, and PAHO’s Advisory Committee on Health Research,

to define specific skill sets needed for EVIPNet country teams to be effective. This allowed developing a skill building strategy based

on the identified needs, so that specific skills related to EVIPNet activities became available in each team and to allow having sufficient

trained team members to gain momentum and maintain a sustained development in the long run.11 In this way country teams would

reflect on their needs with regards to the skill sets and identify areas that needed further development; the EVIPNET Americas

Secretariat would seek means to allow for relevant capacity building activities to take place, working with strategic partners such as

the SUPPORT Collaboration,5 the Cochrane Collaboration (especially the Ibero-American and Canadian Cochrane Centres and

Networks),12 the Alliance for Health Policy & Systems Research (AHPSR),6 the McMaster Health Forum,13 the Canadian Coalition for

Global Health Research,14 and WHO Collaborating Centers,15 seeking efficiencies and promoting regional and sub-regional networks

and activities.

Following on the advice of PAHO’s ACHR,10 and in lines with the elements that were being considered in the development

of regional and global policies on research for health,16 the EVIPNet Americas Secretariat promoted a “train the trainers”

approach that was implemented with support from the McMaster Health Forum and the SUPPORT Collaboration. This was

done in parallel to the work being carried out with participating countries and allowed developing sustainable regional

capacities by establishing a cadre of experts, fluent in different and relevant languages needed to support the growth of

EVIPNet Americas, and its expansion throughout the Americas.

EVIPNet teams were eager to have tangible outputs, and because of this two innovative tools were soon to be implemented

with the teams: policy briefs and deliberative dialogues. Policy briefs represent an innovative, tested, and well-evaluated tool

adopted by EVIPNet teams around the globe.17 Policy briefs are concise documents that summarize the implications of different

policy options for a priority policy issue. Their development involves using evidence and information obtained through adequate

research methods to address policy options according to the nature of the various perspectives included under each option; each

option addresses questions that a policy maker would find relevant. A policy brief will typically single out the underlying problems,

the options to address the problem, key implementation considerations, and elements offering a system based approach suitable

for a policy maker.

11 EVIPNet Americas Secretariat. Proposal for a EVIPNet Skills Building Strategy. Draft Manuscript. 2009. http://www.paho.org/researchportal

12 http://www.cochrane.org/ 13 http://www.mcmasterhealthforum.org/ 14 http://www.ccghr.ca/default.cfm?content=si7&lang=e&subnav=si7 15 http://regional.bvsalud.org/whocc/ 16 http://bit.ly/ResearchPolicy 17 Oxman AD, Yohannes AM, Rottingen JA. Options for improving malaria treatment: Introduction. Int J Technol Assess Health Care

2010;26:228-229. http://www.who.int/rpc/evipnet/policybriefs/en/index.html



http://www.cochrane.org/

http://www.mcmasterhealthforum.org/

http://www.ccghr.ca/default.cfm?content=si7&lang=e&subnav=si7

http://regional.bvsalud.org/whocc/

http://bit.ly/ResearchPolicy

http://www.who.int/rpc/evipnet/policybriefs/en/index.html


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WORKSHOP PREPARATIONS (2009-2010)

In October 2009 a workshop was held in Santiago, Chile, to work with EVIPNet Americas country teams in the initial phases of

the production and evaluation of policy briefs for specific policy options on topics chosen by participating EVIPNet Americas

teams from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Mexico, Mexico–USA border, and Paraguay. This was a hands-on workshop

that allowed participants to acquire skills and advance the development of a policy brief. The EVIPNet’s network approach

allowed for building on the experience gained by EVIPNet teams in other Regions, engaging established regional experts and

institutions, and fostering effective networking.

In the follow-up to the 2009 workshop we witnessed variable progress between country teams. By March 2011 three EVIPNet

Americas teams had delivered proposals or briefs (Brazil,18 Costa Rica and Paraguay),a network of facilitators had been

established, and a growing number of countries in the Region had requested to the Secretariat either the participation in

EVIPNet Americas or technical cooperation to strengthen their national health research system and knowledge translation

capacities. Besides, two additional workshops had been held to support the production of specific policy briefs in Paraguay

(March 2010) and Trinidad & Tobago (June of 2010). Furthermore, some country teams manifested an interest in using their

policy briefs to inform a deliberative process similar to what was being tested in other jurisdictions to involve key stakeholders.

Calls were also being made for PAHO to offer an integrated approach that would allow addressing priority topics in an

integrated way in which technical areas were engaged in the EVIPNet Americas process. Although the Secretariat was quite

stretched out, the financial support provided by participating countries and strategic partners allowed to give continuity

to EVIPNet Americas and in 2010 a contribution from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development

(AECID) allowed for the production of key reference materials, supporting some activities and the hiring of a short term

professional to enhance the coordination and technical support for EVIPNet Americas.

This allowed to support an application to conduct a 2nd workshop geared towards completing policy briefs under development,

to organise policy dialogues with selected country teams; and to expand EVIPNet Americas (or related activities) to other

countries.

WORKSHOP SANTIAGO DE CHILE (2011)

Objectives

The workshop addressed three objectives:

• To strengthen the skills and capacities of 5 EVIPNet Americas teams to produce (and evaluate) 5 policy briefs

• To support 2-3 EVIPNet Americas teams to convene and evaluate 2-3 national policy dialogues where the policy briefs can

be further discussed and brought into context.

• To develop a train-the-trainer strategy to build capacity in the Region for the production and evaluation of policy briefs

and the organization of policy dialogues.

18 http://www.evipnet.org/php/index.php

http://www.evipnet.org/php/index.php

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The Secretariat of EVIPNet Americas planned to also use this gathering as an opportunity to interview country teams and the

support group, learn from their experience and produce video clips illustrating their views about the EVIPNet tools, processes

and achievements.

Participants

The workshop was carried out in Santiago (Chile) and was led by Tomás Pantoja (Health Policy & Systems Research Unit,

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), a member of the SUPPORT Collaboration. The Health Policy & Systems Research Unit

at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile took care of the logistics for the meeting under the management of Dr. Tomás

Pantoja and with administrative support kindly provided by Mr. Patricio González. The EVIPNet Secretariat at PAHO provided

support in identifying participants and liaising with PAHO Country offices.

The group of expert facilitators for the workshop included teams from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Blanca Peñaloza,

Javiera Corbalán, Mauricio Soto, Gabriel Rada, and Gabriel Bastias), PAHO/WHO EVIPNet Secretariat (Luis Gabriel Cuervo, Evelina

Chapman) the Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales -CREP, Argentina (Edgardo Abalos), Florida International University (Juan

Manuel Lozano), and the Instituto de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas de la Academia Nacional de Medicina, Argentina (Marcelo

García-Diéguez). The workshop was attended by 25 participants from eight teams (see Annex 1): Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador,

Mexico-USA border, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad & Tobago.

The EVIPNet Secretariat assembled a communications team led by Eleana Villanueva (Research Promotion & Development)

with support from Andrea Aguila (PAHO/WHO Country office in Chile) and Harold Ruiz (Knowledge Management &

Communications, HQ). The team orchestrated a number of interviews with the participants following the knowledge transfer

process. The objective o this effort was to illustrate, in a simple and easy-to-grasp way, the process of how EVIPNet teams

implement Knowledge Transfer. The interviews are published in a series of videos, each highlighting an aspect of the process,

and can be accessed here.)

Methodological approach

The general approach to capacity building was “learning by doing”; during the workshop each country team worked in

the production of a draft policy brief, and some even advanced the planning of a policy dialogue. Following the workshop,

the draft policy briefs will be refined and virtual support and training activities will be carried out by the group of expert

facilitators and EVIPNet Secretariat. The finalized briefs will be presented to relevant policymakers by country teams.

In preparation of the workshop, a designated facilitator contacted each country team to discuss the objectives of the work,

and to advance pre-workshop tasks established for each team, such as the problem definition and selection of an initial set

of policy options to address the problem, as well as the information needs that would allow to better define and characterise

the problems and options.

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Participants at the workshop addressed three types of questions that allow improvements in health systems using research

evidence:

• what is the problem?

• what policy and programmatic options are best suited to address the problem

• how can change be brought about?

Each step was followed by a discussion and then the putting into practice of specific skills to integrate research evidence (see

Agenda in Annex 2) into the brief. To better achieve the objectives, the workshop was divided in two sections:

1. Completing a policy brief on the topics picked by country teams (days 1 to 3). The issues addressed by the participant

teams were:

• Bolivia: To improve population access to health servicesBrazil: reducing maternal mortality

• Brazil: Reducing maternal mortality

• Chile: Improving access to medicines

• Ecuador: Reducing rural maternal mortality rates in Ecuador

• Mexico-US border: An integrated approach to reduce obesity rates and related health consequences

• Paraguay: Primary care focused approaches to address non-communicable diseases

• Peru: Insufficient adherence to tuberculosis treatment

• Trinidad & Tobago: developing an integrated service approach to children victims of sexual violence

and abuse

2. Preparing a policy dialogue where the policy brief would be used to inform key stakeholders, further discussed and

enriched within the relevant context (day 4).

A series of brief plenary sessions were done on each topic and these were followed by work carried out by country teams. This

allowed for participants to grapple with the questions and issues relevant to the topics they were addressing, while being supported

by the seasoned expert facilitator(s) appointed to each country team. Throughout the week two experts from the resource team also

carried out evidence searches to assist the development of the policy briefs.

In preparation for the workshop and to facilitate a collaborative space for discussion –during and after the workshop – a web platform

was developed (http://evipnet.ning.com/). This platform allowed sharing and organizing of resources (e.g. SUPPORT and SURE

tools), networking, and promoting a sense of ownership and a comradely exchange within and between teams.

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The facilitators also held daily follow up meetings to share experiences, address issues in a consistent manner, and identify options

to address challenges towards the completion of the products, as they were identified. The lead facilitator (Tomás Pantoja) and

Secretary (Luis Gabriel Cuervo) clarified issues as required, building on their experience and knowledge of the global network.

Participants were also presented with a range of resources developed to aid their work. This included:

• The EVIPNet Americas portal, where all resources below would be linked (http://www.paho.org/researchportal)

• A “wiki” tool, to develop their documents in a collaborative fashion.19

• the Evidence Portal – a one stop shop where they can find key evidence sources and databases relevant to EVIPNet, and

to operational, implementation and health systems research.20 They were also presented the specialized database for

health systems research by McMaster Health Forum (Health Systems Evidence database) that will be linked to the EVIPNet

websites and efforts will be made to integrate it to the Evidence Portal.21

• A virtual closed platform for the EVIPNet Americas teams to interact.22

• The Global EVIPNet webpage with resources and outputs produced by other EVIPNet branches, and a link to the EVIPNet

global portal.23

Evaluation

The workshop was evaluated as useful and well organised by the participants. Regarding its objectives most of the participants

deemed that they were mostly achieved. A summary of the evaluations is presented in Annex 3.

Satellite seminar

Taking advantage of the presence of country teams and

facilitators the HPSR Unit and the Centre for Public Policies

of the PUCC organised a short seminar on Thursday morning

entitled “The use of evidence on informing health public

policies”. Two of the workshop’s facilitators (Tomás Pantoja

and Luis Gabriel Cuervo) presented the challenges and

initiatives being currently implemented to link research to

policy and two commentators from the Ministries of Health

and Finance analysed the way in which those initiatives could

be implemented in the context of the Chilean public sector.

The event was attended by about 80 people from academic and policymaking organisations and allowed a vivid interchange

of views and proposals.24, 25

19 http://global.evipnet.org/ 20 http://evidences.bvsalud.org/ 21 http://www.healthsystemsevidence.org/22 http://evipnet.ning.com/ 23 http://www.who.int/rpc/evipnet/en/ 24 http://politicaspublicas.uc.cl/media/proyectos/material/806_Programa.pdf25 http://unipss.cl/unipss-participa-en-taller-internacional-de-la-red-de-politicas-informadas-por-evidencia-evipnet/


http://www.healthsystemsevidence.org/

http://global.evipnet.org/

http://evidences.bvsalud.org/

http://www.healthsystemsevidence.org/

http://evipnet.ning.com/

http://www.who.int/rpc/evipnet/en/

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FOLLOW UP

PAHO has provided a virtual room (http://new.paho.org/EVIPNet) that allows for follow-up video conferences with each

country team; it is estimated that each team will require two follow up sessions, and these will be scheduled through the

Secretariat.

Facilitators of each group will support the development of the specific products (policy brief and/or deliberative dialogue) as

agreed with each country team. A virtual conference will be carried out amongst the group of facilitators to discuss the issues

raised by each country teams (date to be agreed). Technical support and coordination for this process will be provided in the

Secretariat by Evelina Chapman.

Ms. Eleana Villanueva followed up on the production and publication of the videos and interviews carried out during the

workshop. She arranged, in coordination with the EVIPNet Americas Secretariat, for the inclusion of relevant links into the

EVIPNet Americas webpage, and in PAHO’s YouTube Channel playlists for Research Promotion and for EVIPNet. 26, 27

Technical support to the teams will be coordinated with the Secretariat, including support provided by PAHO’s Latin American

& Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information - BIREME. The Regional website (http://www.paho.org/researchportal/

EVIPNet) will offer links to each web tool and will be linked to www.paho.org/researchportal. Cross links will be established

between sites and www.paho.org/researchportal/EVIPNet will be the site where country teams can find links to all relevant

websites and tools.

Participating teams will advocate for the inclusion and linking of their work plans to the PAHO 2012-2013 biennial plan of

work seeking to allocate resources to support and complement the support from the Secretariat for their activities.

DELIVERABLES

The deliberations during the workshop resulted in participants agreeing on a policy brief template developed around the template

used by McMaster Health Forum in Canada (Annex 4A & 4B). This template will be used by most of the teams in writing their policy

briefs.

There was an initial commitment from 3 teams to organise a policy dialogue around the policy issue addressed by their brief; a

progress report and confirmation will be made by these teams by the end of March. Teams will aim to deliver policy briefs in June;

those organising dialogues will report their results in September 2011.

26 http://www.youtube.com/user/pahopin#grid/user/453DD53E9316967827 http://www.youtube.com/user/pahopin#grid/user/52A099D7FAD58031

http://new.paho.org/EVIPNet

http://www.youtube.com/user/pahopin#grid/user/453DD53E93169678

http://www.youtube.com/user/pahopin#grid/user/52A099D7FAD58031

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Most teams agreed to use the monitoring & evaluation framework proposed by the McMaster team, but they will confirm their

engagement in this work by the end of March. It was highlighted that EVIPNet offers a systems approach and that the complex

evaluations need to be supplemented with shorter and simpler evaluations to capture the changes in capacities, products and

deliverables, and the effects in different components of a health system.

Videos and interviews were uploaded to the EVIPNet Americas webpage after the event, and shared with relevant counterparts

including the AHPSR and EVIPNet Secretariat.28, 29

We want to express our acknowledgement to the sponsors and funding agencies supporting this event for recognizing the importance

of this capacity building, and the contributions and potential of EVIPNet as a catalyst for the development of functional health

research systems. And a special mention to the AHPSR that supported financially the workshop.

Participating countries are expected to show commitment increasingly supporting their EVIPNet Activities. The Secretariat will

continue working with key partners to support and further develop the network and relevant resources, raise awareness and engage

global and regional partners.

28 http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5103&Itemid=931&lang=es29 http://www.youtube.com/user/pahopin#grid/user/52A099D7FAD58031


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ANNEX 1: LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Evidence-Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet) Workshop on Policy Briefs/Dialogues

Santiago, Chile. 7 - 11 March 2011

NOMBRE Y APELLIDO

CARGO EMAIL PAIS/JURISDICCIÓN

1 Germán CrespoDirector de Planificación, Ministerio de Salud y Deportes

[email protected] Bolivia

2 Victoria MuñozDocente Investigadora, Facultad de Medicina Universidad Mayor San Andrés (UMSA)


3 María MirandaTécnico, Dirección General de Ciencia y Tecnología del Vice-Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología


4 Susana HannoverGestión de la Información, Conocimiento y Comunicación, OPS Bolivia

[email protected] Bolivia/PAHO

5 Gilvania De Melo Coordinadora, Ministerio de Salud [email protected] Brasil

6 Wania Fernandes Consultora, Ministerio de Salud [email protected] Brasil

7 Flavia Poppe Oficial de Proyecto, PAHO Brasil [email protected] Brasil/PAHO

8 Verónica AbdalaGerente Servicios de Información, BIREME/OPS/OMS

[email protected] Brasil

9 Alicia Rodriguez Investigadora en Salud, Ministerio de Salud [email protected] Ecuador

10 Edmundo EstevezDirector Unidad de Nutrición Molecular, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador

[email protected] Ecuador

11 Napoleon Benitez Asesoría Despacho SENESCYT [email protected] Ecuador

12 Lorely Ambriz PAHO/WHO US-Mexico Border [email protected] US-Mexico Border

13 Michael Kelly Paso del Norte Health Foundation [email protected] US-Mexico Border

14 Alma Morales Gobierno Municipio de Juá[email protected]

US-Mexico Border

15María Stella Cabral de Bejarano

Ministerio de Salud, Dirección de Investigación y Estudios Estratégicos

cabralbejarano@[email protected]

Paraguay

16 Malvina PáezInstituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Asunción

[email protected] Paraguay

17 Domingo AvalosDirección de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Salud, MSPBS

[email protected] Paraguay

18 Lely SolariInstituto Nacional de Salud, Ministerio de Salud

[email protected] Perú

19 Victor SuárezInstituto Nacional de Salud, Ministerio de Salud


20 Edward MezonesInstituto Nacional de Salud, Ministerio de Salud


21 Guillermo TroyaConsultor en Sistemas y Servicios de Salud, OPS/OMS Trinidad & Tobago

[email protected] & Tobago/PAHO

22 Rebecca ProcopePolicy development Officer, Ministry of Health

[email protected] Trinidad & Tobago














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NOMBRE Y APELLIDO

CARGO EMAIL PAIS/JURISDICCIÓN

23 Cynthia ArgüelloUnidad de Desarrollo Estratégico, Ministerio de Salud

[email protected] Chile

24 Pietro Cifuentes Fonasa [email protected] Chile

25 Pedro CroccoEscuela de Salud Pública, Universidad de Chile

[email protected] Chile

26 Edgardo AbalosCentro Rosarino Estudios Perinatales, Rosario, Argentina

[email protected] Facilitador/Bolivia

27 Luis Gabriel Cuervo PAHO/WHO RPC [email protected] Facilitador/Brasil

28 Evelina Chapman PAHO/WHO EVIPNet Americas Secretariat [email protected] Facilitador/Ecuador

29 Gabriel RadaUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

[email protected]/US-Mexico Border

30Marcelo García-Dieguez

Universidad Nacional del Sur – IIE Academia de Medicina, Argentina

[email protected] Facilitador/Paraguay

31 Blanca PeñalozaUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

[email protected] Facilitador/Peru

32Juan Manuel Lozano

Florida International University [email protected] Facilitador/Trinidad & Tobago

33 Gabriel BastiasUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

[email protected] Facilitador/Chile

34 Cristián Herrera R.Unidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

[email protected] Resource person/Chile

35 Javiera CorbalánUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


36 Valentina UbalUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


37 Rodrigo RodriguezUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


38 Mauricio SotoUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


39 Tomás PantojaUnidad de Investigación en Políticas y Sistemas de Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

[email protected] Coordinador taller

40 Eleana C Villanueva PAHO/WHO RPC [email protected] team/United States

41 Andrea Aguila PAHO/WHO, Chile [email protected] KMC/Chile

42Harold Ruiz Pérez Castañeda

PAHO/WHO KMC [email protected] KMC/United States





















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ANNEX 2: AGENDA

Evidence-Informed Policy Networks (EVIPNet) Workshop on Policy Briefs/Dialogues

Santiago, Chile – 7 to 11 March 2011

TimeMonday

7 March

Tuesday

8 March

Wednesday

9 March

Thursday

10 March

Friday

11 March

8.30-10.30

Registration (8:00 – 8:30)

Official opening ceremony (8:30 – 9:30)

Session 1

• Welcome

• Introductions

• Overview of the workshop

• Preparing policy briefs and organizing policy dialogues – Large group

Session 5

• Framing options – Large group

• Framing options – Small groups

Session 9

• Assesing evidence about options – Large group

• Assesing evidence about option small group

Evidence-informed policymaking seminar (at Pontificia Universidad Católica)

Session 15

• Evaluating policy briefs/dialogues

• Small group work – Reviewing the available tools for evaluating policy briefs/dialogues

10:30-11.00 Break Break Break Break Break

11:00 - 13.00

Session 2

• Defining the problem – Large group

Session 6

• Roundtable framing options

Session 10

• Bringing about change – Large group

• Bringing about change – Small groups

Session 12

• Policy dialogues – What are the objectives of the dialogue

Session 16

• Wrapping-up

13.00-14.00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

14.00-15.30

Session 3

• Defining the problem – Small groups

Session 7

• Finding evidence about options – Large group

Session 11

• Putting it all together – small groups

Session 13

• Policy dialogues – Who will be invited and how the dialogue will be organised?

15.30-16:00 Break Break Break Break

16:00-17:30

Session 4

• Roundtable defining the problem

Session 8

• Finding evidence about options – Small groups

Interviews for a video documentary

Session 14

• Policy dialogues – What needs to be done following the dialogue?


ANNEX 3: SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION

Question No. Question Excellent Very Good Good Average Barely Acceptable Poor Very Poor N/A

1 What is your overall assessment of the workshop? 35,71 50,00 14,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

Strongly AgreeModerately

AgreeSlightly Agree

Neither Agree nor Disagree

Slightly DisagreeModerately

DisagreeStrongly Disagree

N/A

2 The material presented in the workshop was new to me 35,71 28,57 14,29 21,43 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

3 The material presented in the workshop is applicable to my work setting 85,71 14,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

4The material presented in the workshop is relevant to my professional development 78,57 21,43 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

5The workshop contributed to my understanding about how to produce policy briefs 71,43 28,57 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

6 The workshop enhanced my capacity to identify and characterize a problem 28,57 50,00 21,43 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

7The workshop enhanced my capacity to identify viable options to address a problem 35,71 28,57 28,57 0,00 7,14 0,00 0,00 0

8

The workshop enhanced my capacity to characterize what can reasonably be expected (in terms of benefits, harms/risks, costs/cost-effectiveness, adaptability, and stakeholder reactions) in my country’s health system by pursuing a given option

28,57 21,43 50,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

9The workshop enhanced my capacity to identify and characterize implementation strategies for a viable option. 21,43 42,86 21,43 0,00 14,29 0,00 0,00 0

10The workshop enhanced my capacity to assess the quality of systematic reviews of the research literature. 35,71 50,00 7,14 7,14 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

11The workshop enhanced my capacity to assess the local applicability of systematic reviews of the research literature 21,43 35,71 28,57 14,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

12The workshop enhanced my capacity to incorporate principles of good communication in the preparation of a policy brief 28,57 42,86 7,14 14,29 7,14 0,00 0,00 0

13The workshop developed my understanding about how to organize policy dialogues at which the policy briefs are discussed 35,71 42,86 14,29 0,00 0,00 7,14 0,00 0

Much too long Too long LongNeither long

nor shortShort Too short

Much too short

N/A

14 The length of the workshop was 0,00 7,14 50,00 42,86 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

Excellent Very Good GoodNeither

good nor poor

Barely Acceptable Poor Very Poor N/A

15 The mix of large group and country team work was 35,71 14,29 35,71 14,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

16 The visual aids and/or handouts were 21,43 28,57 28,57 14,29 7,14 0,00 0,00 0

17 The networking opportunities were 50,00 35,71 14,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

18 The workshop meeting room was 35,71 50,00 14,29 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0

EVIPNet Workshop on Policy Briefs and Deliberative Dialogues March 2011

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