Developing capacity for KTT in agri-food public health

Project leads: Dr. Andrijana Rajić & Dr. Scott McEwen

Project team members: Mai Pham, Lisa Waddell, Dr. Barbara Wilhelm, Dr. Ian Young & Judy Greig

Agri-food public health

Evaluation of knowledge and attitudes of agri-food professionals towards the utility of SR-MA and KTT

Development of a framework for using scoping-systematic reviews in combination with quantitative risk assessment (and decision analysis)

Grant overview

Development of a scoping review frameworkProject #1

Development of a user-friendly ‘summary of findings’ table tool for systematic reviews-meta-analyses

Project #2

Project #3

Project #4

• Type of literature review that aims to rapidly ‘map’ the relevant research in a field of interest.

What are scoping reviews?

Scoping review Systematic review

Study question Often broad Focused

Search strategy Systematic & transparent Systematic & transparent

Inclusion/exclusion criteria Flexible Defined a priori

Study appraisal None/minor Yes

Synthesis Typically qualitative Often quantitative(Adapted from Armstrong et al., 2011)

(Ilic et al., 2012)

Example: scoping review ‘evidence map’

Scoping review #3: Public health risks of zoonotic hep E virus, norovirus & rotavirus(Wilhelm et al., in progress)

Scoping review #2: Pathways for human exposure to M. avium spp. Paratuberculosis (Waddell et al., in progress)

Scoping review #1:Identify/characterize published scoping

reviews(Pham et al., in progress)

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Descriptive & framework analysis

Proposed framework

Discussion with end users

Published framework

Stakeholder evaluation & lessons learned

Project #1 overview