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Day 1 - 14 May 2025 |
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TIME | SESSION | CHAIR |
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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17h30 - 19h30 | WELCOME RECEPTION |
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Day 2 - 15 May 2025 |
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TIME | SESSION | CHAIR |
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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
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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 | |
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