Dr. Paul Kavanagh:

Everything we do to protect and improve the health of the public is underpinned by evidence. The role of evidence is becoming increasingly important in the world we live in and some of the trends like post-truth, fake news and things like that. Evidence is really important in everything we do. While there are extensive and quite well-developed systems of health data collection across the island, those systems are not harmonised and brought together. That means we do not have the same measurement framework across the island to try build learning, track changes in population, try to link those changes to changes in policy and intervention and try to share learning across the island.