Introduction: Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) is an online community for students interested in evidence-based health care; it aims to help students learn more about evidence-based practice and the methodological concepts underpinning it. S4BE involves students from school age to university through relevant, useful resources as well as being a space for them to communicate their knowledge and interact with fellow students.
Aims: In April 2015, S4BE is launching a year-long campaign to ask, ‘What’s the evidence for this?’ The aim of the campaign is to ignite student champions globally, to fight for evidence, to spread understanding on the use of evidence and show how it can improve global health. We will do this through a series of mini events and projects throughout the year. We would like to invite Colloquium attendees to join the campaign and share the ‘S4BE What’s the evidence for this?’ campaign with their student networks.
Results: We want the campaign to result in improved understanding of evidence and the concepts used in evidence-based practice. We seek to strengthen the S4BE community with a new group of student champions, willing to ask ‘What’s the evidence for this?’
Conclusions: We would like to build on the success of blogs like, ‘A beginner's guide to interpreting odds ratios, confidence intervals and P values’, that has been viewed over 100,000 times since publication in August 2013 and make sure students know how to campaign successfully for best evidence.