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

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 

Capacity building 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Priority Setting  Map of global evidence on health systems research  Identify gaps in evidence  Outdated reviews  List of priorities to be developed iteratively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

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 authors  SUPPORT Collaboration  SURE Project Contact: