In collaboration with the JBI entity at the University of Adelaide in Australia, DGHCE founded the first German-speaking JBI Collaboration Entity in 2020. This makes us a member organisation within one of the world’s leading networks for evidence-based healthcare.
Our policy: We are committed to health consumer ethics and evidence-based, gender-related healthcare.
The JBI Collaboration Entity is based at the Chair of Protestant Theology and Social and Technical Ethics at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Germany. Its clinical partners are the Medical Centre for Transgender and Gender Diverse People and People with Intersexuality in Lucerne, Switzerland, and the Evidence-Based Advice Centre in Gaimersheim, Germany. It is therefore a German-Swiss joint venture of sorts.
We believe that the JBI methodology offers excellent opportunities to promote the synthesis, transfer and implementation of evidence due to its diversity, differentiation and practical relevance. Prof. Dr Gerhard Schreiber says, “We see a significant opportunity to promote the JBI methodology in German-speaking countries and establish it within the medical science community. It is essential that JBI methods become part of the agenda for German-speaking health networks.”
The JBI Centre for Gender Health Care has identified two focus areas: gender ethics and evidence-informed gender medicine, and gender-specific aspects of nursing science and practice. Gender has also been identified as an important focus area for health consumer advocacy. Prof. Schreiber continues, “We believe that this combination and its synergies are truly essential, as we often encounter gender-specific conditions with a poor research base, and ethical discourse is then particularly necessary for developing recommendations. What is unique about our approach is that our scientists and researchers, along with our peer advisors (patients), have developed an integrated model of evidence-based research and practice. This close link between science and peer counselling/health consumer advocacy is at the heart of our programme.”