From September 13 to 16, Global Evidence Summit was held at the International Conference Center in South Africa. More than 1400 delegates from 77 countries involved in the domains of evidence-based research, health care, and social sciences, attended the conference. LZU Prof. Yang Kehu, Prof. Wei Lili, associate Professor Dr. Si Lijuan, Dr. Zhang Jingyun, master student Ling Juan, master student of School of Public Health Xing Xin and Shang Wenru, undergraduate student in clinical medical major of grade 2014 Luo Xianggui, participated in the event.
Themed as “Using Evidence, Improving Lives”, Global Evidence Summit was Jointly organized by five international authoritative academic organizations, including the Cochrane collaboration, Campbell collaboration, Joanna Briggs Institute, Guideline International Network (GIN), and International Society for Evidence-based Health Care. This summit concentrated on five themes that encompass How evidence is changing communities community across continent, Digital and trustworthy evidence ecological system ecosystem, How international and innovation can solve global humanitarian, Evidence in a post-truth world--from evidence to policy), as well as Evidence for global equity. Meanwhile, it took various forms to make in-depth discussions and exchanges, such as Oral sessions, Posters, Workshops, Special, sessions & Satellite events. The conference registered a total of 885 research papers, among which 553 papers were displayed in Posters.
Evidence Based Medicine Center of Lanzhou University submitted 96 articles to the general conference, of which 3 were accepted as Oral and 68 asPoster, making LZU the most widely paper-submitted and paper-accepted school in China. During the meeting, Prof. Chen Yaolong was invited to do the Long oral report of "Improving reporting quality of practice guidelines: RIGHT statement and its extension". Ling Juan and Luo Xianggui respectively gave a Short oral presentation of "Use of network meta-analyses in WHO guideline recommendations" and "How to assess the overall quality of guidelines using the AGREE" instrument". Another 26 abstracts of Poster were discussed in the conference site, fully demonstrating the academic achievements reaped by Lanzhou University in EBM and social science research.
(Translated by Ren Yanyang; proofread by Yang Fan)
