Contributed by Nebojsa Nikolic
The World Health Organization (WHO) online repository of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) tools (https://evidence-impact.org/) is the first of its kind to highlight WHO tools and external tools utilized by WHO to facilitate knowledge
translation and partner organizations involved in planning, managing, monitoring, and evaluating the process of evidence
use and implementation. This tool will be of importance to health planning in maritime industry too (i.e. vaccination programmes, quarantine programmes, etc).
The easy-to-navigate online platform enables users to search and access EIDM methods and tools corresponding to each
step of the policy/action cycle. In addition to searching across the cycle, users can refine their searches using advanced
functionalities to filter by document type, language, and publication date. The platform offers tools that span the clinical (or
practice), public health, and health system domains.
The repository actively houses and maintains 75 tools and is continuously being updated as new tools emerge.
The Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit will be actively adding more tools to the repository, employing a scoping literature
review and other steps. EVIPNet and the Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit will integrate the online repository of EIDM tools
into their other capacity-sharing activities.
If you would like to learn more about the online repository of EIDM tools, please contact WHO experts at: eidm@who.int.