07h30 - 09h00

REGISTRATION AND MORNING COFFEE

09h00 - 10h00

WELCOME AND OPENING CEREMONY

• Welcome address by Cochrane Kenya
• Remarks from Director General KEMRI
• Opening remarks by Ministry of Health Official
• Story-telling: The journey of Cochrane Africa

Charles Obonyo

• Barbara Miheso
  Co-Director, Cochrane Kenya, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
  Local Demand and use of evidence

11h00 - 12h30

PLENARY 2: Strategies for bridging the gap between research and health policy implementation

Speakers:

• Ekwaro Obuku
  Africa Centre for Systematic Reviews and Knowledge Translation, Makerere
  University
  Linking research to policy: What has worked
• Nange Lissette
  Traditional storyteller from eBASE Africa
   Eliciting/inciting artistic creativity with scientific [data for bridging the gap between research and health policy implementation: The comings of the two rivers
• Tamara Kredo
  Director, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council
  Global Evidence Local Adaptation (GELA) project
• Mohammed Aliye
  Policy, Strategy, and Research Analyst and Coordinator, PSR LEO, Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
  Ethiopia's evidence ecosystem

Mark Engel

Jael Obiero

12h30 - 14h00

LUNCH AND POSTER SESSIONS 1-4

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 VIEWING

16h00 - 17h30

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

Speakers:

• Bey-Marrie Schmidt
  Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
• 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)
• Moriam Chibuzor
  Senior Research Officer, Cochrane Nigeria

Dachi Arikpo

Nyanyiwe Mbeye

17h30 - 19h30

WELCOME RECEPTION

09h00 - 10h30

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

• Karla Soares Weiser
  Editor in Chief, Cochrane 
  Innovation in evidence synthesis: Can we collaborate to meet decision-
  makers' needs?
• Ruth Stewart
  Director, Alliance for Living Evidence (ALIVE)
  Alive or dead? A new approach for driving evidence-informed action
• Patrick Okwen
  Team lead, eBASE Africa
  Evidence synthesis for education/gap maps

Britta Jeppesen

Ekpereonne Esu

10h30 - 11h00

COFFEE BREAK AND NETWORKING

11h00 - 13h00

PARALLEL WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1 - Part 1

Developing a protocol for a systematic review

Workshop 2

Introduction to meta-analysis

Workshop 3

Prevalence estimates reviews

13h00 - 14h00

LUNCH AND POSTER SESSIONS 5-6

14h00 - 15h30

Workshop 1 - Part 2

Developing a protocol for a systematic review 

Workshop 5

Addressing equity in reviews

Workshop 6

GRADE for systematic reviews

15h30 - 16h00

16h00 - 17h30

CLOSING PLENARY: Advancing collaboration for EIDM in the region - a call to action

Speakers:

• Solange Durao
  Cochrane Africa Network Co-Director
• Charles Obonyo 
  Cochrane Kenya representative
• Etienne Ngeh
  Guidelines International Network Africa Chair
• Ronald Bless Taremwa
  Office of the Prime Minister: Uganda
• Jordan Kyongo
  East Africa Research & Innovation Hub Team Leader, FCDO
• Nkirote Mugambi-Nyaboga
  Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya

CLOSING AND THANKS

Barbara Miheso