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The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC), a coordinating and directive centre for research and training in evidence based health care at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University, seeks applications from suitable candidates to promote evidence-based health care (EBHC), conduct and support systematic reviews and relevant research, and promote the use […]

We are excited to announce the CEBHC annual report for 2016 has been released! To view, click on CEBHC-Annual-Report-2016

A new postdoctoral research opportunity has arisen in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics for a period of one year, renewable; subject to satisfactory performance. Hosted by Profs Machekano and Young, the successful candidate will be expected to conduct methodological research in biostatistics primarily focused towards application to infectious diseases such HIV/AIDS and TB. As […]

The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, in collaboration with Cochrane South Africa, seeks applications from suitable candidates to promote evidence-based health care, conduct and support systematic reviews and relevant research, and promote the use of best evidence in healthcare policy and practice, as part of its role as joint host of Cochrane Nutrition, a newly […]

Prof Paul Garner, who is from the Centre for Evidence Synthesis for Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, was speaking in a guest lecture entitled ‘What have systematic reviews done for global health?’ in the Global Health Seminar Series at the Medical and Health Sciences Faculty of Stellenbosch University. He highlighted that […]

  Stellenbosch University Collaborative Capacity Enhancement through Engagement with Districts (SUCCEED) is inviting letters of intent for research that seeks to enable the effective implementation of health programmes in South Africa to advance the achievement of 90:90:90 goals for HIV – 90% people living with HIV knowing their status, 90% linked to care and 90% […]

In November, Michael McCaul, a researcher from the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care attended the 3rd African Federation Conference on Emergency Medicine (AFCEM) in Cairo, Egypt.  Michael also attended the Trauma & Injury Research in Africa Workshop for early career researchers in Emergency Medicine which took place alongside the AFCEM conference.  Both workshop and conference […]

In October the Biostatistics Unit of the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care hosted an intensive course on STATISTICAL METHODS USING R. Profs Bhaswati Ganguli and Sugata Sen Roy from the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, India, facilitated. Prof. Ganguli is a trained biostatistician who received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University, USA, specialising […]

http://nutrition.cochrane.org   Cochrane Nutrition Field established in South Africa The vision of the CNF is that Cochrane will be the independent, globally recognised go-to place for nutrition systematic reviews Cochrane is delighted to announce that a Cochrane Nutrition Field has been established under the leadership of the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC), Faculty of […]

WHO/Cochrane/Cornell University Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making http://who-cochrane-cornell-summer-institute.nutrition.cornell.edu/ Systematic reviews (following the Cochrane methodology) are used to ensure that WHO guidelines recommendations are informed by best available evidence. Dr Celeste Naude and Dr Liesl Nicol from the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care recently contributed as facilitators and presenters at […]