OPENING & PLENARY 1 - Theme 1 - Going beyond Health: Building Partnerships and Strengthening Collaboration for Health In All Policies
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 |
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
Hall B |
Speaker
Prof Holger Schünemann
Professor
Humanitas University
Opening of the conference
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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-General
World Health Organization
Message from the World Health Organization addressing the Guidelines International Network Conference 2025
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Will Moy
Campbell Collaboration
Evidence Based Imagination
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Biography
Will Moy is CEO of the Campbell Collaboration, an international research network which aims to make understanding the state of the art in social science as natural as looking up a word in the dictionary. His background is in technology, policy, and communications.
Previously Will was CEO of Full Fact, a UK-based charity that works for the honest and accurate use of evidence in public life, a role he held from 2010. Will led it from the initial idea to become a trusted voice whose work is used by millions of people, from voters to the most senior policy makers. As well as being widely used, Full Fact’s work led to changes in the rules and practices of parliament, the media, and official statistics. They became the first ever team to be awarded the British Academy President’s Medal for outstanding service to the humanities and social sciences. Full Fact AI – its tools to help tackle misinformation at internet scale – won the Google AI for Social Global Impact Challenge and is now in use on five continents.
Will is an alumnus of the Marketing Academy Scholarship and the Google for Startups accelerator programme, and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and Nuffield College Oxford. He previously worked for a non-party political member of the House of Lords, an all party parliamentary group, and as an IT consultant.
Dr Karla Soares-Weiser
Acting CEO
Cochrane
Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative (ESIC): Transforming Evidence Synthesis to Improve Lives
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Biography
Karla Soares-Weiser, MD, PhD, MSc, is the acting CEO of Cochrane Library, one of the most reputable sources of best evidence worldwide. A board-certified clinician, she also has a doctorate in evidence-based health care and has been working in this field since 1997. She is the author of over 60 Systematic Reviews, including 33 Cochrane Reviews. She has held numerous positions in Cochrane Groups, including the Iberoamerican and UK Cochrane Centres, where she provided training in systematic review production.
Outside Cochrane, Dr. Soares-Weiser has held academic faculty positions in Brazil and Israel and established her own consultancy business providing evidence synthesis services to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations. As editor-in-chief, Dr. Soares-Weiser is responsible for ensuring that the Cochrane Library meets its strategic goals of supporting health care decision-making by consistently publishing timely, high-priority, high-quality reviews and responding to current needs of the field.
Dr, Prof Christine Laine
Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians
Scientific Evidence: The Foundation for Intelligent Policy
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Biography
Christine Laine, MD, MPH, is Editor in Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine. She is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Internal Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where she is active in patient care and teaching. Dr. Laine first joined Annals in June 1995 as the journal's first general internal medicine Associate Editor and the first woman to fill an Associate Editor position at the journal. She became a Deputy Editor in 1998 and Senior Deputy Editor in April 2008. In July 2009, Dr. Laine became the youngest and first solo female Editor in Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine and a Senior Vice President at the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Laine graduated with a double major in biology and writing, from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She received her medical degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed residency training in internal medicine at The New York Hospital (Cornell University) and a fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical epidemiology at Beth Israel Hospital (Harvard University). Dr. Laine earned her master of public health degree, with a concentration in quantitative methods and clinical epidemiology, at Harvard University.
Dr. Laine is active in the world of medical journalism and has held leadership positions in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the Council of Science Editors, and the World Association of Medical Editors. She has been instrumental in the development of editorial policy about such issues as authorship, conflicts of interest in medical research, and data sharing. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.
Conference Opening
Daniela Carl
Interim Executive Officer
Guidelines International Network (GIN)
Conference Opening and Plenary Chairs
Prof
Holger Schünemann
Professor
Humanitas University
Dr
Lorenzo Moja
World Health Organization
