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World Evidence-Based Healthcare day 2021 - CoVaST blog
World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day is held on 20 October each year. It is a global initiative that raises awareness of the need for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice, and decision-making in order to improve health outcomes globally. It is an opportunity to participate in a debate about global trends and challenges, but also to celebrate the impact of individuals and organizations worldwide, recognizing the work of dedicated researchers, policymakers, and health professionals in improving health outcomes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of developing rapid evidence-informed responses and ensuring the best available evidence is accessible, transparent, and understood. The rapid response of the global evidence community has been important and necessary. However, it has been accompanied by the exponential production of misinformation. The sheer volume of information - some accurate, some not - and the number of ways to access it, has created an infodemic.
The overabundance of COVID-19 information is amplified through social media, and spreads like a virus, making it difficult for people to find evidence-based, trustworthy guidance when they need it. In 2021, the campaign for World EBHC Day supports the efforts of the World Health Organization to manage the infodemic by exploring the role of evidence in an infodemic, in particular promoting access to trustworthy, evidence-informed health information.
Find out more and join the campaign. Go to https://worldebhcday.org.
Miloslav Klugar, as the Evidence Ambassador for World EBHC Day engaged with the 2021 Campaign, the role of evidence in an infodemic, by writing a blog to highlight experiences and collective wisdom in infodemic management.
Read the blog about our international project of COVID-19 Vaccines Safety Tracking (CoVaST) – Global Consortium that fights against vaccine hesitancy and disinformation that abounds and disseminates reliable data on vaccine safety.
