Recent Campbell Posts

By Richard Weston, CEO of The Healing Foundation, Canberra, AustraliaRichard Weston is a keynote speaker at the Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018, being held from 22-24 October in Melbourne, Australia. In this blog post, Richard describes how The Healing Foundation is using evidence to better under....

Written by Ashrita Saran, Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell CollaborationIn principle, children in India are protected by using preventive strategies such as laws on ‘child labour’ and ‘education for all’ and ‘incentives’ for free education. But in the course of my research while travelling throughou....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationWe play a New Year’s Game at Campbell:* each staff member sends round an email with their top book, music and movie from the year. I have learned it best to keep a mental note of my frontrunners as I too easily forget what happened last week, let alone within the last ....

Keynote Speakers shown aboveThe Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018 is now less than two months away! Being held in Melbourne, Australia from 22-24 October, GEIS 2018 will bring together experts from across the world to talk about their experiences in generating and implementing evidence for better po....

How is evidence helping the international development sector identify new solutions, direct investments and measure progress? In this interview, Dr Naomi Rutenberg, Principal Associate, The Forest Hills Group, shares her thoughts on the changing role of evidence in the international development sector. Dr Naomi Rutenbe....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationOne goal of Campbell’s strategy for 2015-18 was to do more to promote the use of reviews to inform policy and practice.How are we doing?This is not something we were tracking before. We have now compiled a list of ‘policy influence stories’, which has identified in....

By Cara C. Lewis, PhD, Associate Investigator, The MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA. Dr. Lewis is a clinical psychologist whose research seeks to identify how providers and care teams can optimize patient outcomes by leveraging data an....

What can child welfare professionals expect from Global Evidence and Implementation Summit (GEIS) 2018? We asked the GEIS sector co-lead and Campbell editor Aron Shlonsky, Professor of Evidence-Informed Practice at the University of Melbourne, to share his thoughts on why this summit is both valuable and timely.How is ....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell Collaboration | June 2018    The international community has committed itself to ending violence against children, sexual exploitation and trafficking.The international community is also committed to basing actions on evidence. Billions of dollars are spent each year on programmes....

As a non-profit, how should you report impact to donors? Caroline Fiennes, Director of Giving Evidence, a UK-based organisation that promotes charitable giving based on sound evidence, provides her insights about evidence of impact.“We often talk about ‘what is your impact?’ In a way, this is a very boring questi....