Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

We are dedicated to the practice, teaching and dissemination of high-quality evidence-based medicine to improve healthcare in everyday clinical practice.

The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine was established in Oxford in 1995 with the aim of promoting evidence-based health care to all offering effective and up-to-date decision-making in health care around the world. We provide support and resources to doctors, clinicians, teachers and others interested in learning about Evidence Based Medicine (EBM), The Centre is directed by Prof Carl Heneghan, GP, experienced clinician and researcher.

The CEBM provides free support and resources to everyone interested in learning more about EBM via their website. Our work falls into three categories:

Research and development on the barriers to and improvement of the clinical practice of evidence.
Training in the principles and practice of evidence-based medicine.
Training the trainers in how to teach EBM and how to undertake research and development in EBM.

Gives me a better appreciation of the need to apply evidence-based practice where and when practical to routine clinical practice.

Our popular courses range from one-day introductory workshops on EBM in practice to a five-day residential programme, providing each delegate with the knowledge and confidence to practise EBM in their own working environment.

Our team

Carl Heneghan

Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
Kamal R. Mahtani

GP & Associate Professor
Jeffrey K Aronson

Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist
Ruth Davis

CEBM Centre Manager
Ben Goldacre

The DataLab
Marcy McCall MacBain

Lecturer in Evidence-Based Health Care & Senior Research Fellow
David Nunan

Departmental Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow
Rafael Perera

Director Medical Statistics
Annette Plüddemann

Course Director: MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
Kome Gbinigie

GP and DPhil student
Joanna Lach

CEBM Administrative Assistant
Georgette Eaton

NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

Senior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer
Nicholas DeVito

Doctoral Researcher
Ailsa Butler

Postdoctoral Researcher & Systematic Reviewer
Elizabeth Spencer

Researcher
Annika Theodoulou

Systematic Reviewer
Georgia Richards

Doctoral Researcher
Stephanie Tierney

Departmental Lecturer and Senior Researcher
Amadea Turk

Researcher in Evidence Synthesis

Latest news

Updated Cochrane Review shows electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking but more evidence is needed on long-term harms

14 October 2020

Newly updated Cochrane evidence published today in the Cochrane Library finds that electronic cigarettes containing nicotine could increase the number of people who stop smoking compared to nicotine replacement therapy – such as chewing gum and patches – and compared to no treatment, or electronic cigarettes without nicotine. More information is needed on harms.