Summary
The Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance is a partnership between researchers, patients and members of the public, healthcare providers, health system managers, policy-makers, and other decision-makers across Canada (and beyond) who are committed to building a Canadian health system that is increasingly informed and improved using the best available health research evidence.
Project Resources
- Project website: https://sporevidencealliance.ca/
- Please visit the website to see the many resources available.
Funded By
- The SPOR Evidence Alliance is jointly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) under the SPOR initiative and 41 partners from public and not-for-profit sectors across Canada. Together, we work towards creating a collaborative research environment that is centred on patients and health system decision-makers as part of Canada’s SPOR initiative.
Principal Investigator
- Andrea Tricco
Co-Principal Investigators
- Cassidy C
- Clement F
- Colquhoun H
- Curran J
- Fahim C
- Godfrey C
- Isaranuwatchai W
- LeBlanc A
- Li L
- Mashford-Pringle A
- Moffitt P
- Moher D
- Sibley K
- Smith L
- Straus SE
Co-Investigators
- Armson H
- Aston M
- Barnabe CCM
- Baxter N
- Bornstein S
- Brouwers M
- Cepanec D
- Cheng D
- Coyle D
- Gagnon MP
- Gaudine A
- Giguere A
- Goodarzi Z
- Goodridge D
- Graham I
- Hall A
- Hamid J
- Hemmelgarn B
- Horsley T
- Ivers N
- Iyer S
- Jull J
- Keeping-Burke L
- Klassen T
- Lal S
- Legare F, Luctkar-Flude M
- MacArthur C
- MacDonald M
- MacKinnon K
- Manns B
- Martin J
- McGowan J
- McCabe C
- Mitton C
- Morin S
- Murphy A
- O’Brien MA
- Ouimet M
- Paulden M
- Polard S
- Porr C
- Rieger K
- Rochon P
- Ross-White A
- Rotter T
- Scott S
- Sears K
- Shah J
- Small S
- Snelgrove-Clarke E
- Stelfox HT
- Squires J
- Stranges S
- Szatmari P
- Temple B
- Thavorn K
- Tonelli M
- Vandyk A
- Veroniki AA
- Walker J
- Wilson R
- Woo K
- Woodgate R
- Young N
- Zomahoun H
Collaborators
- Baidoobonso S
- Barrett B
- Basran J
- Ben Charif A
- Bhattacharyya O
- Blaine C
- Blondal E
- Brunnhuber K
- Clarke M
- Cook J
- Dhalla I
- Donnan J
- Dowling L
- Downey M
- Elliot M
- Glasziou P
- Goldsmit C
- Grunfeld E
- Gulmezoglu A
- Harvey J
- Ho J
- Hoens A*
- Hwee J
- Irlbacher-Fox S
- Jordan Z
- Klarenbach S
- Klinger C
- Koehn C
- Lachance C
- Langlois E
- Leese J
- Lindeman C
- Loeb M
- Macdonald G
- Majnemer A
- Mantla L
- Marshall D
- McKinnon A
- Medves J
- Menear M
- Mirza R
- Mittman B
- Mrklas K
- Murphy T
- Noseworthy T
- Outschoorn A
- Oxland P
- Page M
- Paus Jenssen E*
- Paynter M
- Pham B
- Proteau J
- Rabeneck L
- Rockliff D
- Sanon P*
- Soobiah C
- Stewart L
- Strifler L
- Valentine P
- Van Den Hoek J
- Watt J
- Whiteside C
- Wilhelm L*
- Winkelman I
- Woo J
- Young L
- Yu C
KTP Project Staff
Current: Wasifa Zarin (Research Program Manager), Angelika Aziz, Sabrina Chaudhry, Jacqueline Sally Co, Sharmila Sreetharan,
Past: Safa Al-Khateeb, Shameemah Khan, Rebecca Laundos, Sinit Michael, Fariha Mosaddeque, Clara Tam, Sonia Thomas
*Patient Partner: These individuals could be patients (an individual with a health condition), family members of a patient (e.g. parent, spouse, adult child or other close family member of a patient not capable of decision-making), caregivers (family, relative, friends or neighbours providing unpaid assistance to someone with a health condition/limitation), people with lived experience (those with first-hand experience of the topic of interest,), or members of the public at large.