Evidence Advisory Centre Gaimersheim

Evidence Advisory Centre for Method Development and Global Health

The Evidence Advisory Centre in Gaimersheim, a clinical partner of the JBI Centre for Gender Health Care in Hamburg, Germany, is a methodological competence centre for evidence-based practice in global healthcare.
Our work combines systematic method development with the aim of promoting health equity worldwide in an interdisciplinary, participatory, and context-sensitive manner.

Our goals:

• Method development for evidence-based decisions: we develop and implement methods for systematic knowledge synthesis, from scoping reviews and qualitative evidence syntheses to mixed-methods protocols, based on the standards of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI).
• Capacity building in evidence-based global health: we support institutions, networks, and professionals in the Global South and North in developing their methodological skills, for example through training, workshops, and collaborative review projects.
• We promote context sensitivity in evidence synthesis because global health issues require locally adapted solutions. Our advisory service is committed to designing systematic reviews that take cultural, structural and geopolitical contexts into account.
• We strengthen transparency and participation in research processes by working with a participatory ethos, involving stakeholders, communities and civil society actors in the selection of relevant questions, data interpretation and dissemination.

Our projects

• We provide methodological advice and review support, accompanying systematic and scoping reviews from the initial question to publication. Our focus is on interventions in public health, non-communicable diseases, reproductive health and health system strengthening.
• We offer international training on JBI methodology in cooperation with partner institutions, providing evidence-based synthesis methods in several languages, both online and on-site, especially in underserved regions.
• We are currently conducting scoping reviews on global health topics, examining issues such as the availability of gender-specific health data, barriers to care for marginalised groups, and the implementation of evidence-based guidelines in low- and middle-income countries.
• We are developing methods to analyse intersectional evidence, with the aim of capturing and analysing intersectional inequalities (e.g. along gender, class, and origin lines) more effectively.
• Open science and knowledge translation
  We make our findings openly accessible and user-friendly in various formats, such as policy briefs, practical guides, and multilingual resources for professionals and communities.