Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
Volume  7  – Issue 06 – December 2013 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=DMP&tab=currentissue

Brief Report
Second Evidence Aid Conference: Prioritizing Evidence in Disaster Aid
Philippe Vandekerckhovea1, Michael J. Clarkea2a3a4, Emmy De Bucka1, Claire Allena2 c1 and Bonnix Kayabua2a4
a1 Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium
a2 Evidence Aid, Oxford, England
a3 Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom
a4 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Abstract
The Second Evidence Aid Conference took place in Brussels, Belgium, in October 2012, jointly organized by Evidence Aid and the Belgian Red Cross–Flanders. It provided an opportunity to build on the discussions from the 2011 First Evidence Aid Conference in Oxford, England, and prioritize the future work of Evidence Aid. Within the plenary presentations, discussions, and small work groups, the more than 80 international participants addressed issues regarding the need, use, and prioritization of evidence. Three parallel workshops focused on the prioritization of research, systematic reviews, and data to be collected during disasters, leading to a suggested prioritization framework and a commitment to identify key areas for evidence in disasters. Working with a wide variety of people and organizations from the disaster and humanitarian sectors, Evidence Aid will take this framework and develop a list of top priority questions in need of research and systematic reviews. Although Evidence Aid will not be able to address all of the research questions that will be identified in this process, it will collect them for sharing with relevant agencies. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:593-596)