Detection of Human Trafficking

Esther Ekpe Adewuyi is a Grants Facilitator at the University of Lethbridge. She holds a PhD degree in Experimental Surgery from the University of Alberta. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on the molecular pathways associated with thyroid cancer metastases and pediatric nephrotic syndrome, respectively. Before now, Esther worked with the Alberta Clinical Research Consortium as a Senior Business Partner to facilitate high-quality and efficient clinical research across the province. She was also with the Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit Learning Health System Team as a Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator. Esther enjoys spending time with family, especially her 2 children when she is not working.

Marcela Vélez has research experience in both quantitative and qualitative studies, principally in different types of evidence synthesis, such as systematic reviews, meta-analysis, qualitative evidence synthesis, rapid syntheses, and evidence briefs. After completing her medical degree at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira in Colombia, she earned a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the University of Antioquia, and a PhD in Health Policy at McMaster University. Marcela recently finished a postdoctoral fellowship in McMaster University focused on priority setting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marcela’s research interests focus on supporting and strengthening evidence-informed policymaking in Latin American countries, using policy analysis and different research methods applied to knowledge translation.

Pediatrician with a Master’s degree Clinical Epidemiology and a PhD in Health Research Methodology. He is full Professor at the Department of Pediatrics at University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia), and Assistant professor (part-time) at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). He is the current leader of the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE) Collaboration, Director of Cochrane Colombia, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Clinical and Public Health Guidelines journal. He is also Editorial Board member of the following Journals: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Pediatric Discovery, Cochrane Evidence Synthesis & Methods and the Journal of the American Heart Association. His research is focused on evidence synthesis methods, systematic reviews, network meta-analyses, clinical practice guidelines, and pediatrics.