PHESA (Public Health Evidence South Asia), Department of Health Information, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal organized a one-day workshop on “Review Methodology” on August 29, 2022.

The participants were exposed to the philosophy of conducting scoping reviews, JBI methodology, constructing simple and complex searches and assessing case studies against the PRISMA ScR 2020 checklist.  72 participants including faculty, PhD Scholars, Researchers and postgraduates participated in this workshop.

The team included Dr Edlin Glane Mathias, Research Fellow, Public Health Evidence South Asia, Department of Health Information, PSPH; Dr Jisha B Krishnan and Dr Vijay Shree Dhyani, Research Assistant, Public Health Evidence South Asia, Department of Health Information, PSPH.

Certificate Course in Evidence Synthesis (Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis) from November 07 to 12, 2022 at Public Health Evidence South Asia, Department of Health Information, PSPH, MAHE.

Dr. Anju Sinha, Scientist Consultant, Director, ICMR-Cochrane Affiliate Centre, Co-Chair, India Cochrane Network, was the key note speaker.

The team included Dr. Shailesh Advani, Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA; Ms. Carrie Price , Health Professions Librarian,Albert S. Cook Library; Dr. Bijaya Padhi, Assistant Professor, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research; Dr. Shruti Murthy, Independent Researcher, India; Dr. Vishnu Renjith, Lecturer and Program Director, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Dr. Ravishankar, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vallabhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi; Dr. Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Head Division of Evidence Synthesis; School of Epidemiology and Public Health and Professor in the Department of Physiology, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences; y Dr. Akilesh Ramaswamy, Assistant Professor, JIPMER, Puducherry and Mr. Robert Ayan, CEO Rayyan.ai. 28 participants participated in the course.

Public Health Evidence South Asia (PHESA), Department of Health Information, PSPH, MAHE, Manipal organized a 'Virtual Panel Discussion on Evidence to Policy Translation'

Dr Sanjay Zodpey, President, Public Health Foundation of India [PHFI], New Delhi; Dr B Unnikrishnan, Dean and Professor, Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore; Dr Shirish Darak, Public Health Researcher, Prayas Health Group, Pune, Maharashtra; Dr Neeta Inamdar' Professor and Head, Manipal Centre for European Studies, MAHE were the resource persons for the Panel Discussion.

Dr Sanjay Pattanshetty HOD, Department of Global Health Governance; Coordinator, Centre for Health Diplomacy; PSPH was the Moderator for the Panel Discussion.

Research, education research, policies in education research, translating evidence into policies, knowledge generation, knowledge translation were discussed in the pannel.

Mr Nachiket Gudi spoke about PHESA; scoping review methodology; systematic review-evidence synthesis-meta analysis; types of reviews; literature review; refer research articles; journal publications; developing-implementing policies;  journal publications, research articles, databases of journals, articles at Scoping Review Methodology workshop on 05 May 2023.