title: Evidence Aid approach to gap analysis and priority setting of questions for systematic reviews in disasters.
abstract: This article is based on a presentation at the Evidence Aid Symposium, on 20 September 2014, at Hyderabad, India. Ten years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Evidence Aid and it parters and other humanitarian stakeholders met to update about Evidence Aid work and discussed it future. The Evidence Aid approach to fill in the gap on the production and use of evidence in disater sector and other humanitarian health emergencies was widely discussed. Iterative approach to prioritise evidence reinforced Evidence Aid principle of independacy and a coordinated international orgasisation. The generation of 30 research questions during the prioritisation process contitute the first big step for Evidence Aid to become a one stop shop for the seach evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in disasters.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Centre for Global Health, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland.
authors.forename: Bonnix
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kayabu
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D004190:Disasters; D055416:Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
keywords: Disasters; Evidence Aid; evidence-based public health research prioritisation; humanitarian emergency; systematic reviews