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Evidence-informed health care is still an emerging concept in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To respond to the challenge of generating and disseminating evidence relevant to LMICs, we need to evolve and grow constantly.
Description:
At the South Asian Cochrane Centre, we serve as knowledge brokers to a varied group of stakeholders, devising solutions to sensitise them to evidence-based practices, while keeping their specific contexts in mind. We engage with policy makers, professional bodies, journals, media, consumers and students, to win them over and provide evidence in a format they can understand and apply. The results have included: • steady increase in the numbers accessing The Cochrane Library, free in India largely due to our efforts; • commissioning of systematic reviews by the ICMR (apex research organisation in India); • training workshops that routinely run at full capacity, with increasing participation from the public health department; • the popular Cochrane Students Journal Club, which has successfully piloted its mode of disseminating evidence and is currently building a new website; and • compiling evidence for a landmark workshop for a toxicology group. Through this workshop we wish to discuss the merits, demerits, limitations, and improvements of our strategies.
Evidence-informed health care is still an emerging concept in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To respond to the challenge of generating and disseminating evidence relevant to LMICs, we need to evolve and grow constantly.
Description:
At the South Asian Cochrane Centre, we serve as knowledge brokers to a varied group of stakeholders, devising solutions to sensitise them to evidence-based practices, while keeping their specific contexts in mind. We engage with policy makers, professional bodies, journals, media, consumers and students, to win them over and provide evidence in a format they can understand and apply. The results have included: • steady increase in the numbers accessing The Cochrane Library, free in India largely due to our efforts; • commissioning of systematic reviews by the ICMR (apex research organisation in India); • training workshops that routinely run at full capacity, with increasing participation from the public health department; • the popular Cochrane Students Journal Club, which has successfully piloted its mode of disseminating evidence and is currently building a new website; and • compiling evidence for a landmark workshop for a toxicology group. Through this workshop we wish to discuss the merits, demerits, limitations, and improvements of our strategies.