Global leaders unite for World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day
Seven global leaders in evidence-based healthcare, including the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide鈥檚 JBI, have joined forces to raise awareness for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision making to improve global health outcomes.
JBI is joined by Cochrane, Campbell, Guidelines International Network (GIN), the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in launching the campaign for World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day 2022, Partnerships for Purpose.
World EBHC Day Committee Chair Bianca Pilla said the global evidence community has recognised that collaboration is the key to producing trustworthy, pragmatic evidence.
鈥淭he global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of evidence-based healthcare and the need鈥for鈥partnerships鈥in developing rapid evidence-informed鈥responses, streamlining global efforts, reducing research waste, and ensuring the best-available evidence is accessible, transparent and understood,鈥 Ms Pilla said.
鈥淭he scale of national and international collaboration triggered by COVID-19 has surpassed all historical precedents.
鈥淲hile many partnerships existed before the pandemic, there has been an extraordinary increase in new and innovative partnerships and collaboration between regulators, governments, scientists and researchers, healthcare providers, technology giants and consumer groups.
鈥淭here is a growing concern, which was heightened during the pandemic, about making partnerships and collaboration equitable for - and beneficial to - all partners. Although willingness to collaborate has increased, vested interests, bureaucracy and inability to change remain limiting factors.鈥
鈥淭here is a strong ethical imperative for groups like JBI to work with global partners to ensure the best evidence is available to inform decision-making."The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's JBI Executive Director, Zoe Jordan
JBI Executive Director Professor Zoe Jordan added: 鈥There is a strong ethical imperative for groups like JBI to work with global partners to ensure the best evidence is available to inform decision-making.听
鈥淒espite the grave difficulties associated with working remotely across geographically dispersed groups and time zones, the pandemic has also highlighted the significant benefits of these relationships and made us acutely aware of the need to find ways of supporting each other for the common good.鈥
World EBHC Day 2022 seeks to raise awareness, stimulate debate and shine a light on best practice in the science and art of working in partnership to bridge research, policy and practice, and realise the potential of evidence-based healthcare.
World EBHC Day is an initiative of JBI 鈥 a global organisation promoting and supporting evidence-based decisions that improve health and health service delivery - and is held on 20 October every year. For more information, please visit
Media contacts:
Bianca Pilla,听World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day Committee Chair. Mobile: +61 (0)404 893 324. Email:听info@worldebhcday.org
Lee Gaskin, Senior Media and Communications Officer, the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide. Mobile: +61 (0)415 747 075.
Email: lee.gaskin@adelaide.edu.au