With a host of international speakers and participants from the Steering Group, Centre  and Branch Directors, and the Coordinating Editors’ Executive of the International Cochrane Collaboration and the key note address by Dr. Tikki Pang, Director, Research Policy and Cooperation, World Health Organization, the symposium provides an opportunity to bring together health policy makers, the Indian Council of Medical Research, clinicians, researchers,  medical journal editors, ethicists, librarians and information specialists, media, consumers of health care, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the health sciences and members of the South Asian Cochrane Network, to learn from each other, set priorities for research, explore ways of facilitating evidence based health policy and practice in the region and publicize resources in The Cochrane Library that is currently available free at the point of access to half the world’s population.

We look forward to seeing you in Vellore in April