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12/12/2025

What an incredible year 2025 has been! Take a look at this year's Year in Review for JBI.

While JBI staff take our holiday break, the office will be closed from COB Friday 19 December, 2025.

We will re-open again on Monday 5 January, 2026.

All of us at JBI wish you ✨joy✨ and peace this holiday season.

10/12/2025

📢The JBI Evidence Synthesis final issue of the year is out now!

📝This year, JBI Evidence Synthesis featured a wide range of content, covering the full spread of JBI , from effectiveness and systematic reviews to mixed methods, scoping, and umbrella reviews.

Highlights of this issue 🔎

🔹A editorial featuring Prevalence Estimates Reviews – Systematic Review Methodology Group (PERSyst) members discussing key challenges for reviewers working on prevalence questions, including risk-of-bias assessment and meta-analysis.

🔹A systematic review compares the effectiveness of intrathecal dexmedetomidine with fentanyl, both used with hyperbaric bupivacaine to manage pain after Caesarean section.

🔹A qualitative systematic review explores the experiences of care partner engagement in patient safety at the direct care level from the perspectives of care partners, adult patients, and health care professionals.

👩‍🏫Read these articles and much more in the latest issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis.👇
https://ow.ly/w9iK50XGHeO

09/12/2025

📢Calling all graduates, healthcare professionals, and allied health professionals interested in evidence-based healthcare and research !

JBI within the School of Public Health Adelaide University is a global organisation, with the mission of promoting and supporting evidence-based decisions that improve health and health service delivery.

👩‍🏫JBI Postgraduate Research Degrees are currently accepting applications for formal expressions of interest. JBI offers two postgraduate research degree pathways:

🔹Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

🔹Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

‼️Early applications will be prioritised.

📩Applicants from diverse backgrounds of academic or clinical specialisation and experiences are strongly encouraged to apply.

👉For any enquiries, please email: jbipostgrad@adelaide.edu.au

🔗For more info about the program, please visit: jbi.global/education -research-degrees

08/12/2025

Healthcare professionals are routinely required to make treatment decisions for conditions commonly associated with , such as diabetes, cancer, and dementia, as well as for acute health issues like falls.

👉These decisions become more complex when there are multiple health conditions coexisting with .

👩‍🏫Read the JBI Best Practice Information Sheet, a 4-page summary of evidence derived from the qualitative , 'Health care professionals’ experiences and perceptions of making treatment decisions for with memory loss and comorbid conditions.'👇

🔗https://ow.ly/cpCW50XFvZ1

05/12/2025

Dr Kylie Porritt, Director of Transfer Science at JBI, and Vincent Pearson provide a short overview of what the JBI short course, Rapid Evidence Synthesis: JBI Evidence Summary Workshop offers participants.

The next workshop will take place online 12 May - 14 May 2026.

Learn more about the upcoming JBI Evidence Summary Workshops and other short courses at https://jbi.global/events

04/12/2025

JBI iGNITE 2026 is officially here 💥Get ready for two days designed to push boundaries, fuel innovation and reimagine the future of evidence.

AI is accelerating. Data is exploding. Research is evolving. Are our methodologies keeping up?

At JBI iGNITE, we’re bringing together the world’s leading thinkers to confront that question head-on – and to explore the bold, creative and unconventional ideas needed for the next era of evidence-based healthcare.

Join an extraordinary lineup of global leaders, including:
✅ Prof Arash Rashidian (WHO, Egypt)
✅ Prof Sandy Middleton (SVHN & ACU, Australia)
✅ A/Prof Natalie Taylor (UNSW, Australia)
✅ Dr Karla Soares-Weiser (Cochrane, UK)
✅ Tanja Kuchenmüller (WHO, Switzerland)

This is your chance to be part of a future-focused, high-energy symposium that will shape how we create, synthesise and use evidence in the years ahead.

Registrations are NOW OPEN – early-bird tickets on sale!
24–25 September 2026 | Adelaide, Australia

REGISTER HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/jbi-ignite-2026-ebhc-methodology-symposium

LEARN MORE: https://jbi.global/jbi-ignite

04/12/2025

02/12/2025

🎉 We’re excited to announce the 2024 JBI Evidence Synthesis Impact Award!

This annual award highlights the most impactful published in JBI Evidence Synthesis in the previous year.

🥇 This year’s winning review:

𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚-𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙠: 𝙖 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖-𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨

🔗 https://ow.ly/8E3v50XyttI

The winner was selected from a competitive shortlist based on:

➡️ Potential for impact
➡️ Quality of research conducted
➡️ Relevance to health care issues
➡️ Significance in advancing

🙌 Congratulations to authors of this review — Jacob Kariuki, Christopher Imes, Sandra Engberg, Paul Scott, Mary Klem, and Yamnia Cortes — for your outstanding contribution to health care research.

👩‍🏫Read more here 👉https://ow.ly/pZeL50XAswX

Emory University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Pittsburgh

02/12/2025

01/12/2025

Dr Romy Jia, Associate Lecturer in Synthesis Science at JBI, provides a brief overview of short courses offered by JBI in evidence synthesis.

Learn more about JBI short courses at https://jbi.global/education

29/11/2025

JBI understands that different research questions require the appraisal of different types of evidence and approaches to .

This is why we have developed 8 rigorous methodologies for , and recommend 3 methodologies external to JBI.

Learn more in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis.

🔖 Bookmark this free resource: https://ow.ly/Earr50Xoab3

28/11/2025

JBI COLLOQUIUM 2025 – KOCHI WRAP-UP 🇮🇳✨ Three days. Five domains. One theme that brought it all together: Diversity in Healthcare | Unity in Evidence.

Kochi delivered in every way – and many delegates told us it’s the best conference they’ve attended in years.

From the Panchavadyam opening and lighting of the lamp, to bold panels, powerful plenaries, 60+ posters, workshops, fireside chats and a packed Gala Dinner, the momentum never stopped.

A huge thank you to our speakers, chairs, delegates, sponsors, exhibitors, the Scientific Committee and the Global Organising Committee – and to everyone who contributed to an unforgettable .

Here’s to the connections made, the evidence strengthened, and the energy we carry forward. 🌏✨