Global Activities
In the late 1990s, Dr. Jadad was the founding Chair of the Consumer Health Informatics Working Group of the International and the American Medical Informatics Association. In 1998, his best-selling book Randomised Controlled Trials was published and launched by the British Medical Journal as part of the 50th anniversary of clinical trials in health care. A new edition, co-written with Dr. Murray Enkin, was published in 2007.
In the early 2000s, in close collaboration with Dr. Julio Lorca from Spain, Dr. Jadad was instrumental in the creation of the Spanish eHealth Network and the development of Revista eSalud, the leading journal and portal in the Hispanic world focused on eHealth. In 2004, he received the Canadian-Latinamerican Achievement Award in recognition for his contributions to the relationships between Canada and the Hispanic world.
From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Jadad was the Founding Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Innovation on Human Wellbeing, in Malaga, Spain, an effort funded by the Andalusian Government and the European Union, to support innovative projects to promote optimal levels of quality of life for all, worldwide.
In 2007, he was invited by the British Medical Journal to write an essay highlighting the role of computers as one of the 15 most important breakthroughs in medicine since 1840, when the journal was published for the first time, as part of a commemorative issue marking the journal’s transformational efforts at the dawn of the 21st century.
Dr. Jadad advised the World Health Organization as a member of its Global Observatory for eHealth’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE).
In 2010, he chaired and convened the Global People-centred eHealth Innovation Forum during the European Ministerial eHealth Conference, and the International Forum¨"Youth-led Innovation and Entrepreneurship" in Brussels and Extremadura, two events designed to promote collaborative efforts among leading groups interested in optimizing human wellbeing through the innovative use of ICTs. In late 2010, he co-chaired the First International Summit on Human-centred and Family-focused eHealth in China, becoming the Chair of the International Advisory Committee on eHealth of the Beijing Institute of Technology.
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