Knowledge Acquisition, Assimilation and Use at the Organizational Level

Christina Godfrey is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University School of Nursing and the Scientific Director/Methodologist for the Queen’s Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence. As a specialist in research synthesis methodologies, she has received formal synthesis training through the Cochrane Collaboration and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), and is a certified as a trainer in the JBI method of synthesis.

Dr. Godfrey provides methodological support to faculty, clinicians and graduate students internal to Queen’s University and to emerging synthesis groups and centres throughout Canada. She is a member of five international methodology committees focused on advancing the methodology of synthesis.

Andrea C Tricco, PhD, MSc

@ATricco

@andreatricco.bsky.social

Dr. Andrea Tricco holds a MSc in Epidemiology and PhD in Population Health. She is a Scientist and the Executive Director of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto. She is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. She is also an Adjunct and Associate Graduate Faculty with Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University. She is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Dr. Tricco’s research interests are related to responding to decision-makers (including policy-makers, healthcare providers, and patient partners) through knowledge synthesis. Her research focuses on advancing the science of knowledge synthesis and she is leading research projects related to rapid reviews, network meta-analysis, and scoping reviews. She currently holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis for Knowledge Users and has been recognized as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world.