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Second Evidence Aid Conference: Prioritizing Evidence in Disaster Aid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2014

Philippe Vandekerckhove ,
Michael J. Clarke ,
Emmy De Buck ,
Claire Allen  and
Bonnix Kayabu
Philippe Vandekerckhove
Affiliation:
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium
Michael J. Clarke
Affiliation:
Evidence Aid, Oxford, England Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Emmy De Buck
Affiliation:
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium
Claire Allen*
Affiliation:
Evidence Aid, Oxford, England
Bonnix Kayabu
Affiliation:
Evidence Aid, Oxford, England Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Claire Allen, Evidence Aid, Summertown Pavilion, 18-24 Middle Way, Oxford, OX2 7LG, UK (e-mail callen@evidenceaid.org).
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Abstract

The Second Evidence Aid Conference took place in Brussels, Belgium, in October 2012, jointly organized by Evidence Aid and the Belgian Red Cross–Flanders. It provided an opportunity to build on the discussions from the 2011 First Evidence Aid Conference in Oxford, England, and prioritize the future work of Evidence Aid. Within the plenary presentations, discussions, and small work groups, the more than 80 international participants addressed issues regarding the need, use, and prioritization of evidence. Three parallel workshops focused on the prioritization of research, systematic reviews, and data to be collected during disasters, leading to a suggested prioritization framework and a commitment to identify key areas for evidence in disasters. Working with a wide variety of people and organizations from the disaster and humanitarian sectors, Evidence Aid will take this framework and develop a list of top priority questions in need of research and systematic reviews. Although Evidence Aid will not be able to address all of the research questions that will be identified in this process, it will collect them for sharing with relevant agencies. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:593-596)

Keywords

disasterevidenceprioritizationglobal
Type
Brief Report
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 7 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 593 - 596
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2013 

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