The EVIPNet Resources
Driving evidence to impact
Knowledge translation at a fingertip
A growing number of WHO-internal and external resources are used across EVIPNet’s worldwide community of practice. Browse and download latest guidelines, templates, strategies and sample products to accelerate evidence-informed decision-making.
Tools and resources
- Global Research Agenda on Knowledge Translation and Evidence-informed Policy-making
- The WHO EIDM Repository
- Evidence map on the art and science of using evidence
- Citizen engagement in evidence-informed policy-making: a guide to mini-publics (2024)
- Supporting the routine use of evidence during the policy-making process: a WHO checklist (2023)
- Facilitator’s guide: using research in the EVIPNet framework (2023)
- Implementing citizen engagement within evidence-informed policy-making: an overview of purpose and methods (2022)
- Guide to qualitative evidence synthesis: evidence-informed policy-making using research in the EVIPNet framework (2021)
- Evidence briefs for policy. Using the integrated knowledge translation approach. Guiding manual (2020)
- Conceptual Background and Case Studies – Introduction to EVIPNet Europe (2017)
- EVIPNet Europe - Situation Analysis manual (2017)
- EVIPNet Europe - Policy dialogue preparation and facilitation checklist (2016)
- EVIPNet Europe - Communication and advocacy checklist (2016)
Lessons learned and case studies
- Evidence-informed decision-making for health policy and programmes: insights and best practices from successful country initiatives (2024)
- EVIPNet Europe - Hungary lessons. Lessons learned in developing an evidence brief for policy on appropriate use of antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance in Hungary (2019)
- EVIPNet Europe - Evidence-informed policy-making: lessons learned (2019)
- EVIPNet Europe - success stories in knowledge translation (2018)
- Paving the way to a sugar-sweetened beverages tax in Estonia (2017)
- EVIPNet in action: 10 years, 10 stories (2016)
Resolutions
- Progress report on the framework for strengthening the use of evidence, information and research for policy-making in the African Region (AFR/RC71/13) (2024)
- WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Regional action plan for the implementation of the framework for action to improve national institutional capacity for the use of evidence in health policy-making in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (2021)
- WHO Regional Committee for Africa. Framework for strengthening the use of evidence, information and research for policy-making in the African Region (AFR/RC71/13) (2021)
- WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean. Developing national institutional capacity for evidence-informed policy-making for health (EM/RC66/R.5) (2019)
- EM/RC66/R.5 Developing national institutional capacity for evidence-informed policy-making for health (2019)
- WHO Regional Committee for Europe. Action plan to strengthen the use of evidence, information and research for policy-making in the WHO European Region (2016)
- EUR/RC66/12 Action plan to strengthen the use of evidence, information and research for policy-making in the WHO European Region (2016)
- AFR/RC65/6 Research for Health: A Strategy for the African Region, 2016–2025 (2015)
- WHO. The WHO strategy on research for health (2012)
- PAHO. Policy on research for health (CD49/10) (2009)
- WHO. Ministerial Summit on Health Research (WHA58.34) (2005)
Evidence briefs for policy
- Improving the appropriate use of antibiotics in Serbian health-care settings (2025)
- Developing and strengthening services to achieve an integrated continuum of long-term car in Türkiye (2024)
- Preventing antimicrobial resistance and promoting appropriate antimicrobial use in inpatient health care in Greece (2022)
- Reducing salt consumption and its negative impacts in the Republic of Moldova (2022)
- Tackling antimicrobial resistance in primary health care through promoting the appropriate use of antibiotics in Estonia (2021)
- Reducing the consumption of trans-fats and their negative impacts on health in Turkey (2021)
- Strengthening Romania’s health system to address antimicrobial resistance (2020)
- Promoting appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals to contain antibiotic resistance in North Macedonia (2020)
- Informing amendments to the alcohol control legislation directed at reducing harmful use of alcohol in the Republic of Moldova (2019)
- Promoting the appropriate use of antibiotics to contain antibiotic resistance in human medicine in Hungary (2018)
- Antibiotic prescribing in long-term care facilities for the elderly (2018)
- Reducing the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their negative health impact in Estonia (2017)
Other publications
External resources
SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP)
Series of 18 articles published in Health Research Policy and Systems
Knowing how to find and use research evidence can help policymakers and those who support them to do their jobs better and more efficiently. Each article in this series presents a proposed tool that can be used by those involved in finding and using research evidence to support evidence-informed health policymaking.
Health Systems Evidence Database
Health Systems Evidence is a continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems.
SURE
Guides for Preparing and Using Evidence-Based Policy Briefs
These guides are intended for those responsible for preparing and supporting the use of policy briefs and ensuring that decisions about health systems are well-informed by research evidence. Examples used are taken from policy briefs and address important problems in African countries.
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