Programs and Initiatives

Evidence Output

  • GPA Evidence Updates (Click here)
  • GPA Evidence Database (Click here).

Training (workshops)

  • EBP Research Group workshop. Title : Evidence-Based Practice in Physiotherapy: Getting Hands-on skills (January, 2023)
  • Joanna Briggs Institute Comprehensive Systematic Review Training (JBI CSRT), April 2024 – For research group members and scholarship awardees

World Evidence-based Healthcare Day Celebrations

  • October 2022 – Webinar titled: Walking the talk of Evidence-based Practice, Presenter- Ms. Adjoa Banson
  • October 2023 – Webinar titled: Conducting research in Ghana: highlighting the inequities through storytelling. Presenter – Ms. Mary Wetani Agoriwo (Watch Video recording here)

Scholarships awarded

  • Beatrice Sankah EBP research and training grant for two participants to participate in the EBP Research group workshop. Awardees – Innocent Edem Fayison and Stephanie Lamptey
  • JBI CSRT scholarship awarded to three Physiotherapists Awardees – Innocent Edem Fayison, Bright Awaitey and Michael Adu Aboagye (Watch video recording of their impact stories here)

Publications

2024

  1. Conducting Research in Ghana: highlighting the inequities through storytelling (Blog).

2023

  1. Equitable Rehabilitation: Bridging the Gap in Accessing Evidence in Ghana (Blog).
  1. Inequity in funding rehabilitation research in Africa: new priorities for funders (Blog).
  2. Inequity in evidence-based practice awareness among physiotherapists in India and Ghana (Blog).
  3. Evidence-based Practice Research Group, Ghana Physiotherapy Association: One Year on! Get-to-know the Team (Blog).

2022

  1. Partnering to Promote Evidence-Based Physiotherapy in Ghana: Creating Ghana Physiotherapy Association Evidence Updates (Blog).

Anniversaries

  1. 1st

Event (Webinar). Title: Becoming Evidence-Based Practitioners: Stories from Clinicians in Research for the 1st GPA EBP research group anniversary celebration. Presenters – April 2023 – Martin Ackah and Hosea Boakye

  1. 2nd Anniversary

Celebratory Webinar. Title: Capacity building for physiotherapists as evidence-based rehabilitation practitioners in developing countries. 3rd July 2024.

Keynote Speaker – Dr Beatrice E.A. Sankah (Watch video recording here)

Watch this captivating spoken word poetry about the Group here: