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Dr Celeste Naude, senior researcher at the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care received the Medical Research Council (MRC) Career Development Award. This is one of the flagship awards of the Research Capacity Development Sub-Directorate of the MRC. The Career Development Programme is a partnership between the MRC and the tertiary education sector. The purpose thereof […]

The staff of the Centre for Evidence based Health Care actively participated in the recently held African Cochrane Indaba www.mrc.ac.za/conference/aci/index.htm at the Lagoon Beach Hotel in Cape Town. The Indaba commemorated the 15th Anniversary of the South African Cochrane Centre www.mrc.ac.za/cochrane as well as the 20th Anniversary of the Cochrane Collaboration www.cochrane.org. CEBHC staff facilitated […]

With funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and in partnership with the Guidelines International Network, the Guideline Implementability Research and Application Network (GIRAnet) promotes collaboration among guideline developers, implementers and researchers interested in implementability (http://www.g-i-n.net/activities/implementation/giranet). In plain language this means including information in or with guidelines that helps users to implement them. They are particularly interested […]

Delegates from Africa at the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion http://www.healthpromotion2013.org/ where Taryn Young presented on work of the CEBHC on Leadership development to enhance evidence-informed decision-making

On the 3rd April 2013, the inaugural meeting of the Southern African Clinical Epidemiology Association (SACEA), organised by the Universities of Stellenbosch, Witwatersrand and Pretoria in collaboration with the International Epidemiology Association (IEA) and International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), was hosted by the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care www.sun.ac.za/cebhc, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch […]

A co-ordinated, international initiative to improve access to systematic reviews on the effects of interventions and actions of relevance before, during and after natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies, so as to improve health-related outcomes. Click here to download the PDF or visit www.evidenceaid.org

POLICY BUDDIES – A leadership development project led by the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC) was one of only two proposals selected from 54 applications from all over the world to receive funding from the World Health Organisation. The project, “Policy Buddies” (BUilding Demand for evidence in Decision making through Interaction and Enhancing Skills) […]

Anke Rohwer winning best oral presentation in under 35 year category for the presentation of the Document review at 2012 Annual Academic year day, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University

In partnership with national bodies, the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Stellenbosch University, the South African Cochrane Centre and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are delivering advanced courses for people involved in health policy and research to help them access, understand and use systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions to inform their […]