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Helping organisations build skills, learning pathways, mentorship, and long-term synthesis capacity.
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About ESI
About Evidence Synthesis International
Evidence Synthesis International is a global partnership for organisations working to produce, support, teach, and use evidence syntheses for better decisions.
A partnership across disciplines
Connecting evidence communities through methods, training, advocacy, and shared learning.
Mission
Strengthening how evidence is brought together and used.
ESI supports a global community committed to rigorous, transparent, and useful evidence synthesis. Its mission is to help organisations collaborate, build capacity, share resources, and advocate for the use of reliable syntheses in policy and practice.
The partnership recognises that evidence needs vary across sectors, but the need for clear methods, trustworthy interpretation, and practical communication is shared across many fields.
Global partnership
A meeting point for evidence synthesis organisations.
Evidence Synthesis International brings together organisations from different regions and disciplines. The partnership encourages dialogue between groups that develop methods, run training, support review production, maintain evidence resources, or use syntheses in decision-making settings.
By connecting these organisations, ESI helps reduce duplication, share practical experience, and build a stronger international voice for evidence synthesis.
What ESI supports
Practical areas where collaboration can make synthesis stronger.
ESI focuses on the foundations that help evidence synthesis communities grow and contribute to policy, practice, and public benefit.
Advocacy
Promoting the value of evidence synthesis in transparent, accountable, and informed decisions.
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Encouraging shared tools, resources, standards, and coordination across synthesis communities.
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Supporting rigorous and explicit methods for reviewing, combining, and communicating evidence.
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Who ESI is for
For organisations working with evidence syntheses.
ESI is designed for organisations that produce, support, fund, teach, publish, or use evidence syntheses in research, policy, professional practice, or public-interest settings.
Review-producing groups
Teams and centres producing systematic reviews, maps, guidelines, and related syntheses.
Training providers
Organisations teaching synthesis methods, evidence use, critical appraisal, and knowledge translation.
Policy and practice partners
Groups using synthesised evidence to inform decisions, programmes, guidance, and implementation.
Methodologists
Researchers developing, testing, and improving approaches for transparent evidence synthesis.
Funders and infrastructure groups
Organisations supporting platforms, tools, standards, open resources, and sustainable capacity.
Cross-disciplinary communities
Networks working across health, environment, education, veterinary medicine, and public policy.
Connect with ESI
Interested in the global evidence synthesis community?
Organisations involved in producing, supporting, teaching, funding, or using evidence syntheses are invited to connect and explore opportunities for shared learning and collaboration.