- Led by Pavel Zhelnov, MD, enrolled in a doctoral program in Health Systems Research, with an emphasis in Organization and Management Studies and a Collaborative Specialization in Global Health.
- Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Tricco.
- Dissertation Committee: Dr. Sharon Straus and Dr. David Moher.
- Hosted by the University of Toronto (IHPME), Unity Health Toronto (Knowledge Translation Program), and the SPOR Evidence Alliance.
September 2023 – September 2029.
Protocol draft – Community feedback. Read and comment on Google Docs.
AWARE is a decision support tool for Avoiding WAste in health REsearch. It allows users to upload studies and assess their value for decision-making.
Though designed AI-, mobile-, and web-first, a printer-friendly version will be available.
AWARE supports six perspectives:
(1) general patient and public use, (2) peer reviewers, (3) ethics reviewers, (4) funding reviewers, (5) policy decision-making, and (6) point-of-care clinical decision-making.
AWARE aims to identify and analyze reported cases of research waste to learn patterns of their social, economic, and career impacts. Tools exist to track retractions and problematic papers, but there are few original investigations on methodological, underreported, and other research waste.
AWARE cross-cuts all pillars of health research: biomedical, clinical, health services, social, cultural, environmental, and population health.
A Google Doc of the research proposal is open to public comment. If you would like to do a full peer review, there is a discussion space available to GitHub users, or feel free to contact us. Links to open peer review platforms will be made available here on researchwaste.info once the preprint is published. Thank you very much for your interest!
This research is generously supported by a total of ~$164,000 U.S. dollars in Canadian public research money, of which ~$107,000 USD comes from competitive funding rounds, with 3 successful applications out of 16 (18.8%) over 4 fiscal years:
- CAD $1,500 from SDGs@UofT through Student Awards Program;
- CAD $120,000 over 3 years from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program (CGRS D);
- CAD $25,000 (declined to hold CGRS D) from Unity Health Toronto through Unity Health PhD Angels Den Scholarship.
CAD $78,000 over 3 years were provided from the IHPME and Dr. Tricco’s grants through the guaranteed Student Funding Package.
See AWARE’s full funding history.
