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October 2011. Evidence for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experience of the EPOC Oslo satellite. Susan Munabi- Babigumira, Dr/Researcher. Outline. Background EPOC Activities Lessons learned. Evidence for Health systems.
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October 2011 Evidence for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experience of the EPOC Oslo satellite Susan Munabi- Babigumira, Dr/Researcher
Outline • Background • EPOC • Activities • Lessons learned
Evidence for Health systems Oxman AD, Lavis JN, Lewin S, Fretheim A. SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP): 1. What is evidence-informed policymaking? Health Res Policy Syst. 2009.
The Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group (EPOC) • Professional interventions (e.g. continuing medical education, audit and feedback) • Financial interventions (e.g. professional incentives) • Organisational interventions (e.g. the expanded role of pharmacists) • Regulatory / governance interventions (e.g. interventions to reduce corruption in the health sector)
EPOC Satellite Oslo • Based at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services • Support review teams in low- & middle-income countries (LMICs) to undertake and update relevant EPOC reviews • http://epocoslo.cochrane.org/
Capacity building 1 dot = 1 review team 1 dot = 1 review team
Priority Setting • Map of global evidence on health systems research • Identify gaps in evidence • Outdated reviews • List of priorities to be developed iteratively
Knowledge Translation... • Evidence –based policy briefs
Rapid Response Service • Policy makers urgent need for evidence • Pilot in Uganda and Burkina Faso • Response to policy makers urgent questions in a systematic way drawing on research evidence • Positive response from policy makers • Ongoing evaluation
Lessons learned • Institutional support • Access to Literature • Capacity building • Translation of evidence to useable formats • Critical mass of champions
Acknowledge • EPOC Oslo satellite team and authors http://epocoslo.cochrane.org/ • SUPPORT Collaboration http://www.support-collaboration.org • SURE Project http://www.evipnet.org/sure Contact: sub@nokc.no