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The Center for Systematic Reviews on Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) was established in 2013 funded by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at the World Health Organization (WHO). The Center is a joint collaboration between the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) and the Faculty of Medicine (FM).

Mission Statement

SPARK specializes in the production of systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis products that respond to health policy and system priorities. SPARK also builds capacity to conduct systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis products at the individual, team, institutional, and system level.

Vision

SPARK's vision is to become the leading resource center for producing high quality evidence synthesis products on health policy and systems priorities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and beyond.

SPARK Publications

For SPARK publications (Click here).

Recent Activities

Capacity Building Workshops:

Global Evidence Summit - Workshop On Capacity Building in Conducting Systematic Reviews - September 12-16, 2017

Systematic Review Methods Workshop, Beirut (In Collaboration with EviEM) (1-2 June, 2017)

Effective Communication of Health Evidence for Impactful Policy Decisions and Action (In Collaboration with K2P Center) (22-24 March, 2017)

WHO EMRO SUPPORT summary workshop: evidence for policy-makers - November 15-18, 2015

Participations in Conferences:

Expert Consultation on Fostering Institutional and Structural Capacity for Evidence Based Health Policy Making (29-30 November, 2017)

Global Evidence Summit 2017 (September 12-16, 2017)

Fifth Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) Europe Multi-country Meeting on Using Research Evidence for PolicyMaking (14-16 June, 2017)

4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (November 14-18, 2016)

The 24th Cochrane Colloquium (October 2016)

For more SPARK activities

(Click here to view Activities).

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