How we celebrated World EBHC Day 2024
JBI Collaboration shows full support
World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day has a special place on our calendar of events at JBI.
World EBHC Day is an initiative of JBI, launched in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now in its fifth year, World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2024 was celebrated by JBI, the JBI Collaboration, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, decision-makers, patient-partners and consumers around the world on 20 October.
World EBHC Day 2024 campaign
The 2024 campaign, "Health and Beyond: From Evidence to Action”, highlighted the need for intersectoral collaboration to tackle the complex global challenges – or polycrisis - which threaten public health and the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The campaign was delivered by JBI in partnership with other global leaders in evidence-based healthcare: Cochrane, Campbell Collaboration, Institute of Development Studies, CEBHC, and Applied Health Research Unit at Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford. The organisation partners are joined on the World EBHC Day Steering Committee by individual members Laura Boeira (Instituto Veredas) and Hari Sankar (The George Institute for Global Health).
Bianca Pilla, Chair of the World EBHC Day Steering Committee outlines the campaign in one of the vlogs published on the World EBHC Day website:
The campaign called for the global evidence community to share insights, experiences, challenges, innovations, lessons learned, and promising failures in using evidence-based approaches to take action for health and beyond to build better evidence support systems in a polycrisis.
"For truly global transformative change to occur, we need collective wisdom and collective action in the form of large-scale, strategic collaboration, including actors from across the evidence ecosystem to co-create solutions" – Bianca Pilla, Chair, World EBHC Day Steering Committee
JBI Evidence Synthesis: World EBHC Day 2024 Evidence Ambassador
Responding to the call, JBI's peer-reviewed journal, JBI Evidence Synthesis, published editorial, From chaos to clarity: how COVID-19 exposed the urgent need for better evidence synthesis in the October issue in which the authors outline lessons learned from the testing environment for COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and the importance of building a better evidence-based support system. An editorial in motion accompanies the editorial:
World EBHC Day activities by the JBI Collaboration
The JBI Collaboration responded to the campaign with informative blogs and vlogs from their own experiences and perspectives:
Impact of climate change on Indigenous communities: voices of tribal people
How does empathy training promote a healthy nursing workforce
Patient involvement in contextualising a clinical practice guideline in Iran
Co-housing and aging-in-place for older adults
Transforming Indian healthcare: leveraging standard treatment workflows
Helping children and adults with mental health problems
Falls prevention in a Tabriz general hospital: a collaborative approach
Leprosy: evidence supporting safe diagnosis and monitoring of contacts
The key to improving outcomes of colorectal cancer
Health and beyond: from evidence to action in Singapore
JBI staff also contributed blogs:
Citizen science and the butterfly effect
Methodology matters: delivering trustworthy research across the global evidence community
Reimagination: disrupting old models for a new world
Moving evidence into action: how JBI Evidence Summaries drive change
Patient-partners, researchers, clinicians, policymakers and others also hosted and participated in 16 diverse events held globally, 8 of which were organised and hosted by JBI Collaboration Entities in India, Brazil, the Philippines, Cameroon and Thailand.
The headlining event in 2024 was Connected Conversations, a series of interviews with 25 global leaders and up-and-coming leaders who underscored the importance of collective action in creating resilient evidence systems.
Constantine Asahngwa, Director of the JBI Cameroon Centre for EBHC, was interviewed at the Global Evidence Summit for the Connected Conversation around Intersectoral Action for Health:
By publishing blogs or vlogs or hosting events, JBI Collaboration entities were able to take on the role of Evidence Ambassador. As Evidence Ambassadors, the JBI Collaboration took to social media to support World EBHC Day and to highlight the need for multidisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, diverse perspectives and knowledge exchange across different sectors in order to create resilient evidence support systems to help address global challenges beyond health.
Record reach in 2024
With the combined efforts of Evidence Ambassadors and thousands of individuals and organisations globally, the World EBHC Day 2024 campaign reached more than 80 million people online in 125 countries and in 23 languages.
Ultimately, World EBHC Day is a celebration of the tens of thousands of individuals working in evidence-based healthcare worldwide to improve health outcomes. For the first time in 2024, people shared how they celebrated World EBHC Day 2024 in a photo gallery.
For a snapshot of World EBHC Day 2024, go to the infographic and watch the wrap up video.