This is the initial website of CEBHA, the Collaboration for Evidence Based Health Care in Africa.
Welcome to CEBHA
The Collaboration for Evidence Based Health Care in Africa (CEBHA) aims to facilitate the development and dissemination of knowledge and increased implementation of evidence-based health care in Africa.
CEBHA will build upon the following five pillars:
Pillar 1: Collaboration and coordination
The collaboration will function as a networking and coordinating center by bringing together scientists, health care professionals, and policy makers from the African region, as well as Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence Based Health Care (EBHC) experts from around the world to create a mutually beneficial network for knowledge sharing.
Pillar 2: Course development and implementation
CEBHA will create a pool of trainers who are able to offer a range of catered courses on EBM and EBHC, specifically concentrating on resource-limited countries. In the initial 1 to 2 years international experts will be needed to give these courses. By means of offering courses of teaching of trainers (ToT), local trainers will be trained to provide the courses in the following years.
Pillar 3: African systematic reviews and research synthesis
This process will include two steps; the first will concentrate in determining what the priorities for research synthesis are, whilst the second will consist of developing systematic reviews and syntheses.
Pillar 4: Researching and optimizing Evidence Based Health Care
Research will be done on determining if EBHC leads to better patient outcomes once implemented and on determining if the implementation of EBHC and guidelines improves the health-related Millennium Development Goals.
Pillar 5: Dissemination
CEBHA will ensure that the above gathered information is produced and conveyed in a timely manner to important end-users (e.g. clinicians and researchers) such that patient care and resources may be optimally managed.
