Elsevier Foundation awards grant to the Collaboration for Evidence Based Healthcare in Africa

The Collaboration for Evidence Based Healthcare in Africa (CEBHA), an initiative of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), has recently been awarded a three year grant from the Elsevier Foundation's Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program.

The selected project focuses on the key role played by information specialists in the practice and implementation of Evidence Based Healthcare (EBHC) in the developing world. Medical doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers across several Sub-Saharan African countries will be taught the skills of searching and retrieving, evaluating and implementing medical literature and evidence into clinical and public health to improve patient care. Besides KIT, the other partners in this project are the Albert Cook Library of Makerere University, Uganda and the Kigali Health Institute, Rwanda.

African collaboration
CEBHA is a network of local Faculties of Medicine, Schools of Public Health, Ministries and non governmental organizations that support an African healthcare system based on informed and evidence-based decisions. CEBHA was started by the KIT department Biomedical Research in 2009 and continued with input from two other departments: KIT Information & Library Services and KIT Development Policy & Practice.

In January 2010, KIT, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, granted considerable seed funding to the collaboration for which many EBHC courses and curriculums, systematic reviews and research programs have been completed.  In May 2010 Professor Harriet Mayanja-Kizza, Dean of the School of Medicine at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda was appointed as acting Director of CEBHA. Since then several African interested parties and EBHC specialized institutions have contributed to the further development of CEBHA.

Elsevier Foundation
The Elsevier Foundation is funded by Elsevier, a global provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program awards grants to libraries for innovation in improving access and use of scientific, technical and medical information.

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