Dr Barbara Rath, principle investigator, Vienna vaccine safety initiative, Berlin, Germany Barbara specialises clinical trials and infectious diseases research, and promotes evidence-based vaccine safety research and communication.
Professor Kurtz founded the Center for Inquiry, which promotes evidence-based reasoning and opposes organized religion, and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (known as Csicop), which is dedicated to debunking pseudosciences.
GBC promotes evidence-based responses, using data, not dogma to drive success and enable companies like Levi Strauss and Chevron to better apply resources, share best practices, and organize next-generation approaches to collective action.
It promotes evidence-based planning for effective programme interventions as highlighted in the United Nations Development Assistance Framework UNDAFF) which is the UN's system's programming framework, covering the period 2009-2010 in the Maldives.
54 The International Observatory on Mental Health Systems (IOMHS) 34, 35, 55 was inspired by, and modeled on, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 56 which "supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe".
The companies are also interested in innovations that promote "evidence based medicine" -- procedures validated by rigorous clinical trials or by results from long usage -- as a route to cost effectiveness.
[20] Tools for evaluating the quality of diagnostic research reports included in a systematic review, such as QUADAS, [21] have made a considerable impact in promoting evidence based diagnosis.
Opportunities for increased interaction between researchers and decision-makers would also serve to promote evidence use.
However, before this approach can be promoted, evidence is required on its effectiveness and safety.
