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In cooperation with the JBI Entity at the University of Adelaide, Australia, the DGHCE founded the first German-speaking JBI Collaboration Entity. We are now a member organization of one of the most important global networks for evidence-based health care. Our policy: Commitment to health consumer ethics and evidence-based gender-related health care.
The JBI Collaboration Entity is based at the Institute for Theology and Social Ethics at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, with clinical partners at the 2pass/O2 Clinic Antwerp and the Medical Center for Transgender Persons Lucerne. So it is a kind of German-Belgian-Swiss joint venture.
We believe that the JBI methodology, due to its diversity and differentiation as well as its practical relevance, offers excellent opportunities to promote the synthesis, transfer and implementation of evidence. PD Dr. Gerhard Schreiber: “We see a significant opportunity to promote the JBI methodology in the German-speaking countries and to anchor it in the medical science community. It is urgent that JBI methods become part of the agenda of German-speaking health care networks.”
The JBI Affiliated Group has identified two priority areas: evidence-based ethics and evidence-based gender medicine, and gender aspects of nursing science and practice. Gender has been identified as an important focus area for health consumer advocacy. PD Dr. Schreiber: “We think that this combination and its synergies are really essential, because we often encounter gender-specific conditions with a poor study situation and then ethical discourses are especially necessary for the development of recommendations. What is unique about our approach is that our scientists/researchers and peer advisors (patients) have developed an integrated model of evidence-based research and practice. This close link between science and peer counseling/health consumer advocacy is at the heart of our program”.