The Aged Care Quality Association (ACQA) would like to advise their members that Trish McReynolds in her role as the Director of the Joanna Briggs (JBI) National Evidence Aged Care Unit will be attending this confernence on behalf of ACQA. Following this conference Trish will be attending the Committee of Directors face to-face meeting on the 16th – 18th September in Chicago, USA.

"In order to develop and promote evidence-based resources for service provides, healthcare professionals and consumers around the globe, JBI draws on the assistance and support of its collaborating entities, known as the Joanna Briggs Collaboration (JBC). The JBC consists of self-governing collaborative entities that are coordinated through the leadership of The Joanna Briggs Institute in Adelaide, Australia. These groups are composed of international experts from over 40 countries from a range of health disciplines committed to evidence-based health care. They do this through a range of activities that enable us to provide resources and improve health outcomes globally."

"Centres are commonly located within Universities, Health Care Services and Professional Organisations and focus on conducting systematic reviews, developing and maintaining specialty nodes of JBI COnNECT+ or assisting in translating JBI resources into languages other than English. "

Available: http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/about/collaboration.php