Building a Global Evidence Synthesis Community
Leaders from three of the largest and most influence evidence-synthesis networks globally – Karla Soares-Weiser from the Cochrane Collaboration, Will Moy from the Campbell Collaboration, and Zoe Jordan from JBI – have played a key role in making the case for ESIC, in co-leading the planning process, and now in implementing the ESIC roadmap and in particular the year-1 foundational investments.
These three leaders:
- issued a joint statement – at the time of the Global Evidence Summit in Prague on 13 September 2024 – to help make the case for the original ESIC funding announcement
- co-led the ESIC planning process from January through June 2025 alongside other members of the secretariat, who were drawn from the Global SDG Synthesis Coalition (Kerry Albright and Shiv Bakrania), ACRES (Rhona Mijumbi-Deve), and the Pan African Collective For Evidence (Laurenz Mahlanza-Langer)
- issued a joint statement in response to the announcement about funding, foundational investments, and transitional arrangements made in the UN’s Goals Lounge 21 September 2025.
Karla Soares-Weiser secured and oversaw the planning grant from the Wellcome Trust on behalf of the members of the ESIC planning-process secretariat. Additional details about their work can be found on the history and documents webpages.
Each of these three leaders now sits on the Communities council, along with leaders from two other evidence-synthesis networks, the Collaboration from Environmental Evidence (Andrew Pullin) and Evidence Synthesis Ireland (Declan Devane).