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Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare

Established in 2010 as the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare (IEBH) delivers world-class research, engagement and training that serves as a national and international resource for scholars, clinicians, system leaders, patients and families in the implementation of evidence-based clinical care.

The transition from Centre to Institute in 2019 enabled the IEBH to expand its research function to provide advisory services based on sustainable, evidence-based healthcare and to facilitate research-informed policy and practice.

The effective integration of research into practice contributes to the health and healthcare of Australians, influences health policy and improves global health outcomes.

(From L to R) Professor Tim Brailsford โ€“ Vice Chancellor, Professor Paul Glasziou AO - former IEBH Director, Professor Nick Zwar โ€“ Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at the Institute Launch in June 2019. 

Key focus areas

  • To undertake research that more closely aligns evidence and patient care.

  • To support and extend collaborations between clinicians and health researchers to achieve higher value care.

  • To enable patients and families to make evidence-informed health decisions that are congruent with their values and preferences.

  • To lead and facilitate the teaching and learning of evidence-based practice.

  • To develop young researchers for research programs in sustainable healthcare.

Our research

The Instituteโ€™s research focuses on four significant yet largely ignored issues that impact healthcare globally:

  • Antibiotic resistance: Antibiotic resistance currently causes 30,000 avoidable deaths per year in Europe and the USA, and will overtake the global deathrate of cancer in 2050. Current research focusses on the key obstacles that prevent the reduction of antibiotic use in Australian primary care.
  • Overdiagnosis: The Institute is a national and international leader in understanding and addressing the problems that occur when commonly used, correct diagnoses in health and medical care do more harm than good. IEBH research examines the key drivers of overdiagnosis and subsequent overtreatment, which threatens to harm health and health system sustainability.
  • Neglected non-pharmaceutical treatments: IEBH research investigates why non-pharmaceutical treatments such as exercise, psychotherapy, physical therapy, manual procedures and self-management are under-used in healthcare, despite being just as, or more effective and safer than their drug counterparts.
  • Waste in medical research: It is estimated that avoidable design flaws, non-publication and inadequate reporting renders over 85% of research a wasted effort. The Instituteโ€™s focus is to understand and ameliorate these issues by looking at poor research reporting โ€“ particularly its consequences for non-pharmaceutical interventions โ€“ and developing automation tools that improve the speed of evidence synthesis.
     

Resources

A message from our director

  • "Our team delivers world-class research, engagement and training that serves as a national and international resource for scholars, clinicians, system leaders, patients and families to improve evidence-based healthcare. The effective integration of research into practice advances the health and healthcare of Australians, influences health policy and improves global health outcomes."

    Professor Julie Redfern AM - Institute Director

Grants and Funding

The Institute has a number of avenues of funding which contributes to our research efforts. This includes externally commissioned contracts through the Agency for Clinical Innovation, The Heart Foundation, World Health Organisation, and the Medical Research Future Fund

Learn more about our recent grant successes.

FundingPeriodAmountTitleRecipients
NHMRC Leadership Level 2 Fellowship2025-2029$3.4MEnhancing evidence-informed health decisions and patient-centred sustainable healthcareHoffmann T
NHMRC Leadership Level 2 Fellowship2024-2026$2.6MModernising cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of heart diseaseRedfern J
MRFF Clinical Trials Activity2024-2028$4.8MEvidence-based Antimicrobial Stewardship: Sustainable Implementation in Primary Care โ€“ The EASSI-PC Trial

Led by IEBH

Glasziou P, Bakhit M, Hoffmann T, Manski-Nankervis J, Morgan M, Biezen R, Peters S, Stocks NP, Magin PJ, Wale J, Buising K, Jones M

NHMRC Synergy Grant2024-2025$816,669Solving the long-standing evidence-practice gap associated with cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (SOLVE-CHD)Led by University of Sydney - Redfern J, Gallagher R, Briffa T, O'Neill A, Jennings G, Brieger D, Wood D, Bauman A
NHMRC MRFF Post-Acute Sequalae of COVID-192024-2025$312,379Australian Long COVID Adaptive Platform Trial โ€“ ALCAP trialLed by IEBH Glasziou P, Keech AC, Byambasuren O, Bonney A, Marschner IC, Yeoman P, Zwar N, Guppy M, Reid CM, Bakhit M, Kyaw-Mint SM, Faux S, Crotty M
MRFF Primary Health Care Digital Innovations2023-2027$1.6MThe NOTUS trial (Non-pharmacological Treatment for chronic low back pain Using digital health technology)

Led by Neuroscience Research Australia โ€“ Mcauley JH, 

Rizzo R, Moseley GL, Williams C, Traeger AC, Cashin A, Maher C, Goodall S, Machado GC, Gustin S, Sharpe AL, Byambasuren O, McCaffrey K, Yoong SL

NHMRC2022-2026$2.5MWiser Healthcare: better value care for all AustraliansLed by University of Sydney โ€“ McCaffery K, Carter S, Barratt A, Bell K, Moynihan R, Oโ€™Connor D, Maher CG, Buchbinder R, Houssami N, Glasziou P
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow Investigator Grant2022-2026$957,375Optimising the uptake of effective underused non-drug evidence-based interventions in primary careAlbarqouni L
MRFF2022-2025$3MPROMOTE: a cluster-randomised implementation trial to promote evidence useLed by Flinders University โ€“ Lannin NA, Joliffe L, Reeder S, Cadilhac DA, Lynch EA, Adey-Wakeling Z, Hoffmann T, Dean CM, Scrivener K, Churilov L, Hayward K, Hill K

Awards

Latest articles

  • Order of Australia award for Professor Redfern

    The Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University, Professor Julie Redfern AM, is named on the 2025 Australia Day Honours list.

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  • Professorial lecture to celebrate a remarkable career

    Dr Paul Glasziou will share insights from his distinguished career in medicine at a special event before his retirement.

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  • $2.9m grant to fight over-treatment

    Bond University researcher Tammy Hoffmann OAM has received an almost $3 million grant aimed at empowering patients to have a greater say in their medical care and combating over-treatment.

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  • Antibiotic resistance research to continue after huge funding boost

    Bond University academics are among a team of researchers awarded almost $4 million to reduce the overprescription of antibiotics for common conditions such as sore throat, sinusitis and colds.

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  • Pass the potassium and shake up your health

    Bond University researchers find replacing regular salt with a salt substitute decreases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by about 17 percent.

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  • Evidence of overdiagnosis of non-cancer conditions

    Overdiagnosis of conditions other than cancer is occurring, and researchers now have a way of estimating it.

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  • Trending degrees for 2024

    Bond Universityโ€™s most popular courses for 2024 indicate students may be reacting to future job trends, with four of the top seven degrees related to the care industry.

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