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

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.