Selection of 10 priority topics to help to identify evidence of interventions with health outcomes in disasters and humanitarian crises |
SURVEY INFORMATION
Dear participant,
Evidence Aid is a coordinated, international initiative to improve effective and timely access to systematic reviews before, during and after natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies, with the aim of improving health-related outcomes. We work with those who need and use this evidence, as well as those who produce it. Since its creation after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Evidence Aid has been promoting the use of research evidence in humanitarian emergencies.
There is clearly much work to do to provide reliable, robust information on the effects of relevant interventions and actions, and we should like your help with the prioritisation of research topics for humanitarian and disaster-related interventions which have health outcomes. We have compiled a long list of potential research questions from an ongoing needs assessment survey (www.EvidenceAid.org), discussions with aid agency research centres and participants and presenters during the two Evidence Aid conferences, and from published literature (for example, the Lancet series on maternal and child health). These questions have been grouped into 43 themes and we are asking you to select and rank the ten themes you think are most important in preparing for and responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and major healthcare emergencies.
Your response to this survey will be collated and brought to an Evidence Aid Priority Setting meeting in London on 3-4 June 2013. There, 20-30 experts with a broad knowledge base of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and major healthcare emergencies, will use a process developed by the James Lind Alliance (www.lindalliance.org) to reach consensus on three high priority research questions within each of the top ten themes identified through this survey. The experts at the meeting will include humanitarian aid workers, policy makers, academics and knowledge producers. After the meeting, Evidence Aid and its partners will seek to facilitate the production of systematic reviews for these 30 intervention questions. The results of these reviews will be made freely available through the Evidence Aid database.
Participation in the survey is voluntary and your identity will not be linked to your responses when the findings are presented or published. Your personal details will not be disclosed and your participation will be considered as written consent.
Thank you very much for your help.
Dr. Bonnix Kayabu
Evidence Aid Coordinator
Centre for Global Health Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Evidence Aid is a coordinated, international initiative to improve effective and timely access to systematic reviews before, during and after natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies, with the aim of improving health-related outcomes. We work with those who need and use this evidence, as well as those who produce it. Since its creation after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Evidence Aid has been promoting the use of research evidence in humanitarian emergencies.
There is clearly much work to do to provide reliable, robust information on the effects of relevant interventions and actions, and we should like your help with the prioritisation of research topics for humanitarian and disaster-related interventions which have health outcomes. We have compiled a long list of potential research questions from an ongoing needs assessment survey (www.EvidenceAid.org), discussions with aid agency research centres and participants and presenters during the two Evidence Aid conferences, and from published literature (for example, the Lancet series on maternal and child health). These questions have been grouped into 43 themes and we are asking you to select and rank the ten themes you think are most important in preparing for and responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and major healthcare emergencies.
Your response to this survey will be collated and brought to an Evidence Aid Priority Setting meeting in London on 3-4 June 2013. There, 20-30 experts with a broad knowledge base of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and major healthcare emergencies, will use a process developed by the James Lind Alliance (www.lindalliance.org) to reach consensus on three high priority research questions within each of the top ten themes identified through this survey. The experts at the meeting will include humanitarian aid workers, policy makers, academics and knowledge producers. After the meeting, Evidence Aid and its partners will seek to facilitate the production of systematic reviews for these 30 intervention questions. The results of these reviews will be made freely available through the Evidence Aid database.
Participation in the survey is voluntary and your identity will not be linked to your responses when the findings are presented or published. Your personal details will not be disclosed and your participation will be considered as written consent.
Thank you very much for your help.
Dr. Bonnix Kayabu
Evidence Aid Coordinator
Centre for Global Health Trinity College Dublin, Ireland