Global leaders in evidence-based healthcare highlight the urgent need to advance global health equity
Cochrane has partnered with The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), Campbell Collaboration, Guidelines International Network (GIN), Australian Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, South Africa Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to launch the 2023 campaign for World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day, called ‘Evidence and Global Health Equity
World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day is held on 20 October each year. It is a global initiative that raises awareness of the need for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision making in order to improve health outcomes globally.
For more than 30 years hundreds of organisations and tens of thousands of individuals have been driving improvements in the quality and outcomes of healthcare by promoting and supporting the synthesis, transfer and implementation of evidence into clinical practice.
The need and demand for EBHC continues to grow rapidly due to increased availability of digital information, better informed patients, the introduction of new technologies, increased healthcare costs, complex and adaptive health systems and ageing populations. In addition, new technologies and access to digital information bring their own challenges, including trying to make sense of vast amounts of information and the rapid spread of misinformation, making the role of providing and acting on reliable evidence even more important.
The 2023 campaign aims to examine how the global evidence community can foster and embed equity within and across evidence ecosystems to advance global health equity and inspire a collective drive among individuals and organisations to challenge the status quo and embrace a new paradigm of evidence generation and utilisation that propels progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
In 2023 we reached the mid-way point for the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a global commitment to ‘leave no one behind’, says World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day Chair, Bianca Pilla. "However, the global crises of humanitarian disasters, climate change and health pandemics are all impeding progress and exacerbating global health inequities, highlighting the urgency to strengthen local and global evidence ecosystems to address societal challenges
In 2023 the organising partners have invited Health Information for All (HIFA), E-Base Africa, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), The George Institute for Global Health and University of Global Health Equityas campaign partners. Campaign partners collaborate with the organising partners of World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day to contribute to developing and strengthening the campaign, ‘Evidence and Global Health Equity’, with unique expertise, knowledge and resources.
The global evidence community is invited to submit blogs or vlogs for publication on the World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day website or organise events to share experiences and collective wisdom on fostering equity-centred evidence-informed decision-making and strengthening evidence ecosystems.
- Visit the World EBH Day website
- Take action and submit a blog, vlog, or event
- Read the translation of documents related to World EBC Day in Farsi here
- Download Social Media Kit (Farsi)