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2 May 2022 WHO Departmental news

At WHO, evidence and science have been at the heart of improving health policy and practice. They are a major stepping stone towards achieving the WHO’s triple billion targets and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
With its new Guide on evidence-informed decision-making and the related online repository of tried and tested WHO tools, WHO is now providing users with comprehensive hands-on guidance so that rigorous systematic and transparent methods are applied for the creation and application of research evidence in our day-to-day work –  whether developing policy options, formulating new programmes or providing technical assistance to the Member States.

The Guide, launched on 6 April 2022, with over 400 participants from across the world attending the event, brings together WHO’s joint experience and know-how from different departments and workstreams into a central platform. The publication’s sub-title “Evidence. Policy. Impact.” is key to the Organization’s global mission and ambition.

At the core of the Guide and repository is its evidence ecosystem for impact’ framework, serving as a user-friendly matrix outlining the process and steps of evidence-informed decision-making, and capturing WHO’s methods and tools linked to promoting better-informed decision-making in countries and globally.

Apart from providing guidance on how to apply rigorous systematic and transparent methods for evidence-informed decision-making, the Guide aims to promote more dialogue and collaboration between communities of the evidence ecosystem of evidence producers and users – whether within the Organization or at the country level.

As the WHO Chief Scientist has postulated in the foreword of the Guide: “To achieve even better results in the future, we need to further optimize our work across the evidence ecosystem and ensure that decision-makers are equipped to navigate a plethora of partially overlapping evidence and guidance of variable quality. A well-functioning evidence ecosystem with structures, capacity and incentives in place will ensure that evidence is available and accessible to all, and routinely used to inform decision-making.”

For questions and comments on the guide and tool repository, please contact [email protected].

The recording of the launch webinar can be accessed here (Passcode: 7j%U&&Uq)the PowerPoint slides are available here.

About Post Author

Dr Akshay Minhas

MD (Community Medicine) PGDGARD (GIS) Assistant Professor Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (DR.RPGMC), Tanda Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India
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