October 2024
Celebrating World EBHC Day 2024
It's a wrap!
On 20 October 2024, World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day was celebrated by healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, decision-makers, patient-partners and consumers. The World EBHC Day 2024 campaign reached more than 80 million people online in 125 countries and in 23 languages.
World EBHC Day is delivered by global leaders in evidence-based healthcare: JBI, 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).
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 World EBHC Day 2024 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
The global evidence community responded to the campaign with 42 blogs that were published on the World EBHC Day website, together with 15 vlogs.
Patient-partners, researchers, clinicians, policymakers and others also hosted and participated in 16 diverse events held globally.
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.
110 blog authors, vlog presenters, and event hosts took on the role of Evidence Ambassadors 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.
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 celebrate 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.