Evidence for Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Experience of the EPOC Oslo

satellite

October 2011

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 corruptionin 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 team1 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Identify gaps in evidence Outdated reviews List of priorities to be developed iteratively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

Knowledge Translation...

Evidence –based policy briefs

Knowledge Translation – Policy Dialogues

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 authorshttp://epocoslo.cochrane.org/ SUPPORT Collaborationhttp://www.support-collaboration.org SURE Projecthttp://www.evipnet.org/sure

Contact: sub@nokc.no