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A postdoctoral research opportunity has arisen in the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care for a period of 12 months. The successful candidate will be expected to conduct methodologically sound systematic reviews as well as primary research on and promotion of knowledge translation. Applications, and any queries regarding the application process, should be made by email […]

Prof Grimshaw presented the first Implementation science seminar series jointly organised by the South African Cochrane Centre and CEBHC on 17th October 2014. The session started with special welcome by Prof Glenda Gray, President of the SA Medical Research Council, and Prof Jimmy Volmink, Dean of Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and Director of […]

Congratulations to Prof Charles Wiysonge (Centre for Evidence-based Health Care) who has been elected as a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).

The South African Cochrane Centre www.mrc.ac.za/cochrane and the CEBHC work collaboratively on a number of joint projects which include the conduct of relevant systematic reviews, promoting the use of best evidence and capacity development initiatives. Recognizing the mutual interests in the fields of research, education, training and knowledge translation on a long term basis; and […]

Please download this document for more information:CEBHC Competition final.pdf

To contribute to the ongoing effort of knowing South Africa TB epidemic by informing targeted responses and identify research priorities the findings of the Evidence to Inform South Africa TB (EVISAT) Policy project was presented during a satellite session, chaired by Yogan Pillay (National DoH) and Kerry Pelzman (Director of Health, USAID), at the TB […]

The review on Antispasmodics for labour, led by Anke Rohwer http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23737030, was one of the systematic reviews used to inform the WHO guideline on Augmentation of labour http://t.co/SYe7dPylQ0

This week Professor Charles Wiysonge from the CEBHC is attending the 3rd African Epidemiological Association Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Charles is a Keynote speaker at the conference and will be presenting “Enhancing the Health Systems: the role of Health Policy and Systems Research and Analysis”.

This week Celeste Naude from the CEBHC is participating in the DECIDE conference http://www.decide-collaboration.eu/decide-international-conference-2-4-june-2014-edinburgh being held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh  2-4 June 2014. The DECIDE project aims to ‘improve the dissemination of evidence-based recommendations by building on the work of the GRADE Working Group to develop and evaluate methods that address the […]