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 – Vice Chancellor, Professor Paul Glasziou AO - former IEBH Director, Professor Nick Zwar – 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 Institute’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 Institute’s focus is to understand and ameliorate these issues by looking at poor research reporting – particularly its consequences for non-pharmaceutical interventions – and developing automation tools that improve the speed of evidence synthesis.

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Research highlights

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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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

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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.

Funding	Period	Amount	Title	Recipients
NHMRC Leadership Level 2 Fellowship	2025-2029	$3.4M	Enhancing evidence-informed health decisions and patient-centred sustainable healthcare	Hoffmann T
NHMRC Leadership Level 2 Fellowship	2024-2026	$2.6M	Modernising cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of heart disease	Redfern J
MRFF Clinical Trials Activity	2024-2028	$4.8M	Evidence-based Antimicrobial Stewardship: Sustainable Implementation in Primary Care – 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 Grant	2024-2025	$816,669	Solving 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-19	2024-2025	$312,379	Australian Long COVID Adaptive Platform Trial – ALCAP trial	Led 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 Innovations	2023-2027	$1.6M	The NOTUS trial (Non-pharmacological Treatment for chronic low back pain Using digital health technology)	Led by Neuroscience Research Australia – 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
NHMRC	2022-2026	$2.5M	Wiser Healthcare: better value care for all Australians	Led by University of Sydney – McCaffery K, Carter S, Barratt A, Bell K, Moynihan R, O’Connor D, Maher CG, Buchbinder R, Houssami N, Glasziou P
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow Investigator Grant	2022-2026	$957,375	Optimising the uptake of effective underused non-drug evidence-based interventions in primary care	Albarqouni L
MRFF	2022-2025	$3M	PROMOTE: a cluster-randomised implementation trial to promote evidence use	Led by Flinders University – 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

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Top research award for Professor Hoffmann

Professor Tammy Hoffmann receives the NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Investigator Grant Award for Leadership in Health Services Research.

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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

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