John Lavis
John Norman Lavis, is a Canadian physician who serves as the director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy and the director of McMaster University's Health Forum, where he also serves as a professor in the Department of Health Evidence and Impact. He chairs the Advisory Committee on Health Research to the Pan American Health Organization. He currently teaches the Health Systems and Health Policy course at McMaster University.
Some of Lavis' work includes a "taxonomy of health system topics", and "surveys... that directly support the use of research evidence in developing health policy".
