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The Nottingham Ningbo GRADE Centre plans to hold a series of workshop on "GRADE research methods and the production of evidence-based medicine guidelines" in 2021. To better promote the relevant preparations for the workshops, the Centre invited relevant professionals of domestic guide research and production to participate in the online kick-off meeting on 29^th January 2021. 

Nottingham Ningbo GRADE Centre was officially announced as an affiliate of the Cochrane China Network at the Network Launch Event on 22th January 2021. The Cochrane China Network is part of Cochrane, a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers and people interested in health. The Cochrane China Network is made up of leading institutions with existing expertise in research and practice, from across eight cities in the country. The network members will work collaboratively to disseminate trusted evidence and champion the use and rigor of evidence, ultimately to enhance the health and well-being of citizens. 

The theme of this forum is "Regulating the Evidence Evaluation and Recommendation Process - Improving the Quality of Guidance Development", aims to promote the application of evidence-based medicine in clinical practice. This event includes a main forum, and a number of sub-forums covering areas such as GRADE methodology, traditional Chinese medicine, pharmaceutical economics, paediatric guidance, evidence-based care and mental health.

The organizing committee has invited speakers from China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. Speakers of this forum will present the latest evidence-based medical research findings to clinicians, medical researchers, health policy makers and hospital managers, thereby provide a platform for communication and cooperation between medical practitioners and scholars.

Click here to find forum schedule and online meeting access.

Nottingham Ningbo GRADE Centre recently published an article "Distinguishing opinion from evidence in guidelines" on British Medical Journal Chinese Edition. Click HERE to read the article and HERE to download the article.

 In the Conference of Healthy Families-Healthy Planet! Plant Based Nutrition, Nottingham China Health Institute collaborated with experts in the use of Plant Based Nutrition from Australia, China and the USA, to examine the ways in which communities can work together to prevent and reverse nutitionally borne diseases.  

The two-day research conference brought together about 200 scholars and professionals from China and the UK, to Jointly discuss how evidence-based medicine can be used to improve health in China. The main forum and eight sub-forums covered a wide range of areas including clinical guidelines, medicine stocks, TCM, cancer, smoking, hearing loss and tinnitus. 

The main theme of the 2019 Conference is Health-Care Reform in China: Past, Present and the Future. As 2019 is the tenth anniversary of health-care reform plan unveiled in 2009, it is important for academic community to evaluate the progress of health-care reform in China. In particularly, there is a wide public concern on whether the reform of health care system in China is able to cope with several challenging issues arising from the increasing burden of non-communicable disease and population ageing.

The workshop covers topics on gender and health economics in China, with particular attention to the intersection of gender and health. Four keynote speakers include Professor Yaohui Zhao, Professor Fenglian Du, Dr. Qiulin Chen and Professor Jin Feng.

The theme of the forum is “Evidence Based Medicine: From Evidence to Decision Making”, and we aim to promote the evidence based medicine in clinical practice. Leading by medical experts from China and the UK, we have discussed the latest research on the clinical practice of evidence based medicine, including the development of evidence based medicine in China, the development of evidence based medicine in medical policy, the role of hospital quality system management, the application of evidence based medicine clinical decision support tools etc. This forum provides an international platform for the various audiences, such as clinician practitioners, medical researchers, health policy makers and hospital managers in China, for the communication and future collaboration in research and people exchange.