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Who we are
The Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) is an expert team of researchers producing high-quality evidence synthesis documents, including systematic reviews, for health practitioners and decision makers in order to inform the planning and delivery of public health services in Canada. The EPHPP has been helping to develop the capacity of public health practitioners and policy-makers as informed consumers of literature for the past ten years. EPHPP is affiliated with McMaster University.
What we do
Since 1999, the Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) has conducted over 35 systematic reviews related to the effectiveness of public health programs and interventions. EPHPP has also been involved in the production of numerous resources focused on research methods and tools involved in synthesizing and appraising research evidence. EPHPP is committed to providing high-quality evidence to health practitioners and decision-makers.
Creating a systematic review is a challenging and engaging process. The staff at EPHPP is skilled in literature searching, relevance testing, quality assessment, data extraction, knowledge synthesis, and are experts in developing and writing systematic reviews. EPHPP has been contracted to conduct high quality systematic reviews by various health units and health authorities, as well as various governmental ministries. EPHPP works in collaboration with our partners/decision-makers in order to define the scope of the systematic review and subsequent literature search strategies.
In addition to systematic reviews, EPHPP works to create a number of different knowledge dissemination materials such as expeditited reviews, and methods and tools for quality assessment, critical appraisal and knowledge synthesis. Dissemination of our materials occurs via the internet, through relevant networks, and at provincial, national and international conferences.