Programme

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Day 1 - 14 May 2025 

TIME

SESSION

CHAIR

07h30 - 09h00

REGISTRATION AND MORNING COFFEE

09h00 - 09h30

WELCOME AND OPENING CEREMONY

Speakers:          
  • Welcome address by Cochrane Kenya
  • Remarks from Director General KEMRI
  • Opening remarks by Ministry of Health Official

 

09h30 - 11h00

PLENARY 1: Strategies for bridging the gap between research and health policy implementation

Speakers:

  • Dr Ekwaro Obuku
    Africa Centre for Systematic Reviews and Knowledge Translation, Makerere
    University
    Linking research to policy: What works?
  • Nange Lissette
    Part-time lecturer, Department of Arts and Archeology, University of Yaounde 1
    Getting Cochrane Reviews into stories
  • Prof Tamara Kredo
    Director, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
    Global Evidence Local Adaptation (GELA) project
  • Dr Ntuli Angyelile Kapologwe 
    Head, Disease Surveillance and Management, Tanzania Ministry of Health
    Building the Tanzania national evidence ecosystem

 

11h00 - 11h30

COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

11h30 - 12h30

PLENARY 2:  Keynote speech: Advancing health decision-making in Africa

Speakers:

  • Barbara Bakhita
    Co-Director, Cochrane Kenya, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
    Cochrane Kenya experience

 

12h30 - 14h00

LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION

14h00 - 15h30

 

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1

Developing and adapting clinical practice guidelines

Workshop 2

Introduction to principles and practice of KT

Workshop 3

Policy makers cafe

Workshop 4

GRADE for guidelines

15h30 - 16h00

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

16h00 - 17h30

PLENARY 3:  Panel Discussion – Enhancing KT in our region, best practice cases and opportunities to collaborate

Speakers:

  • Dr Bey-Marrie Schmidt
    Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
  • Laurenz Mahlanza-Langer
    Executive Director, Pan-African Collective for Evidence (PACE)
  • Dr Ettiene Ngeh
    Chair, African Regional Community for the Guideline International Network (GIN) & Head, Physiotherapy Department, St Louis University Institute, Douala, Cameroon
  • Lilian Mayieka
    Co-Director, Cochrane Kenya, Kenyan Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

 

17h30 - 19h30

WELCOME RECEPTION

      

 

 

Day 2 - 15 May 2025 

TIME

SESSION

CHAIR

08h30 - 09h00
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING

09h00 - 10h30

PLENARY 4:   Innovation in Evidence Synthesis for Health Decision-Making

Speakers:
  • Dr Karla Soares Weiser
    Editor in Chief, Cochrane 
    Innovation in evidence synthesis: Can we collaborate to meet decision-
    makers' needs?
  • Prof. Ruth Stewart
    Director, Alliance for Living Evidence (ALIVE)
    Alive or dead? A new model for driving evidence-informed action
  • Dr Patrick Okwen
    Team lead, eBASE Africa
    Evidence synthesis for education/gap maps
  • Dr Kerry Albright
    Principal advisor/Deputy Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF

 

10h30 - 11h00

COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

11h00 - 13h00

 

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1

Developing a protocol for a systematic review - part 1

Workshop 2

Introduction to meta-analysis

Workshop 3

Prevalence estimates reviews

13h00 - 14h00

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

14h00 - 15h30

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
Workshop 4
Consumer engagement

Workshop 5

Developing a protocol for a systematic review - part 2

Workshop 6

Addressing equity in reviews

Workshop 7

GRADE for systematic reviews

15h30 - 16h00

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION

16h00 - 17h30

CLOSING PLENARY:  What can Cochrane Africa and Guidelines International Network do to support EIDM in the region – call to action

 

CLOSING AND THANKS