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  • OUR HISTORY

    The Africa Centre for Systematic Reviews & Knowledge Translation, “Africa Centre” was founded in March 2013 with support from the International Development Research Centre, Canada. The Principal Investigator for this grant was Prof. Nelson K. Sewankambo and Dr. Ekwaro A. Obuku the founding coordinator at the Centre. The aim of the Africa Centre is to build capacity for knowledge translation for public policy in Africa cutting across health, education and food security.

  • OUR SCOPE

    Our reach has been throughout Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan in Eastern Africa; Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria in West Africa; South Africa and Zambia in Southern Africa. Although we initially started with health policy and systems work, we have since supported cross cutting teams in agriculture, engineering and education particularly in methodological approaches to evidence synthesis and knowledge translation. We are part of the Africa Evidence Network (www.africaevidencenetwork.org/) with various collaborations with the Campbell Collaboration (https://campbellcollaboration.org/)and the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (www.iced-eval.org/)

  • OUR VISION

    A leading centre of excellence in evidence synthesis and knowledge translation for health policy in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • OUR MISSION

    To transform Africa into an environment that is driven by evidence informed public policy and action and one that is self-reliant in capacity for evidence synthesis and knowledge translation.

Building sustainable capacity for conducting and using evidence in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

We support teams through skills building workshops or trainings, policy dialogues, public lectures, presentations to decision makers and conferences on linking evidence to public policy. We have produced various systematic reviews, rapid responses and evidence briefs for policy captured in our health systems portal http://chs.mak.ac.ug/uch/home

 

Trainings

RAPID RESPONSE EVIDENCE BRIEFS

The World Health Assembly (WHA) in its 67th meeting, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended evidence based decision-making among national policy makers and other stakeholders.

We, at Makerere University College of health sciences are scaling up efforts to build capacity of researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders in evidence informed public policy making using Rapid Response Evidence Briefs. The Rapid Response Service aims at making synthesised research evidence easily accessible to policy makers in a timely way (short period).

The workshop is organised by the Centre for Rapid Evidence Synthesis (ACRES) at Makerere University College of Health Sciences; and is aimed at equipping team leads of Knowledge Translation Platforms (KTPs) with skills and knowledge to understand, implement and manage Rapid Response Services at their home institutions.

COURSE ON SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSIS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH

This course is designed to focus on practical applications of the principles of systematic reviews taught in the introductory lectures. Participants will be involved in identifying health system problems for which research evidence is needed and proceed to conduct and publish systematic reviews answering this question. To achieve this objective, course participants will be engaged in systematic review conduct beyond the 5-day full-time face-to-face interaction in Kampala, Uganda.

GRADE FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSIS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH
This course is designed to focus on practical applications of the GRADE (Grading, Recommendations, Assessment, Development, Evaluation). The hands-on approach builds on our systematic reviews course to apply the overall assessment of the quality of the body of evidence to inform recommendations & for guidelines development.

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Africa Centre for Systematic Reviews and Knowledge Translation.
College of Health Sciences | Makerere University.
P.O Box 7072 | Kampala | UGANDA.
Cell: +256702798123 | Tel: +256414 698 286 (Office of the Principal)
Skype: afcen.makchs