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As artificial intelligence (AI) introduces innovations in how people in many diverse fields approach their work, the Forum is actively engaging in efforts to identify how this rapidly evolving technology can be safely and responsibly used in providing timely, demand-driven evidence support for policymaking – which we refer to as ‘AI for policy.’

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Forum working to build and share capacity in AI for policy As artificial intelligence (AI) introduces innovations in how people in many diverse fields approach their work, the Forum is actively engaging in efforts to identify how this rapidly evolving technology can be safely and responsibly used in providing timely, demand-driven evidence support for polic...

We have been able to move as far and as fast as we have – both in our work under the Forum banner and in our work as secretariat for the Global Evidence Commission and RISE, and our new role as evidence-synthesis network hub for the Evidence Support Network for Canada (ESN-CA) – because of our partnerships with groups that powerfully complement the Forum’s areas of strength.

Read more in our look back at 2025 >> https://www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new-at-the-forum/news-item/look-back-at-2025

Thanks to all of our partners and funders. These achievements were also made possible by the dedication and perseverance of our talented McMaster Health Forum team of staff, students, collaborators and advisors.

Since 2020, we have been leading efforts to build networks to address urgent issues related to pandemic planning and response with robust and rapid evidence syntheses. The newly launched Evidence Synthesis Network for Canada to Support Pandemic Planning and Response will allow us to continue to provide evidence to inform responses to emerging threats such as mpox and avian influenza, and areas that require continued planning and responses.

Through this new network, we will partner with 20+ evidence-synthesis teams from across Canada, experts (including those working in pandemics, zoonosis and on equity-related issues), as well as citizen- and Indigenous-advisors who help to ensure our work is relevant and useful to all types of decision makers.

https://www.mcmasterforum.org/about-us/new-at-the-forum/news-item/government-of-canada-announces--2-million-to-support-a-new-network-to-strengthen-pandemic-planning-and-response

Michael Wilson shares insights on how the outcomes from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative will change the work of the McMaster Health Forum https://youtu.be/h0i2GKW_9v

How do you anticipate that outcomes from ESIC will change the work of the Forum? Insights from Michael Wilson, Scientific Director of the McMaster Health Forum on how the outcomes from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative w...

John Lavis, Director of the McMaster Health Forum, shares some key insights from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative’s Cape Town consensus meeting

Key insights from ESIC's Cape Town consensus meeting John Lavis, Director of the McMaster Health Forum, shares some key insights from the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative’s Cape Town consensus me...