Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare (IEBH)

Bond University

Formerly known as Centre for Evidence-Based Practice

The Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare (IEBH) at Bond University is dedicated to bridging evidence and practice to improve health outcomes, healthcare quality and health system performance.

Through partnerships with consumers, communities, clinicians, health services and policymakers, IEBH generates, translates and implements high-quality research that supports evidence-based decision making and real-world impact.

Its work is focused on three interconnected priorities: high-quality primary care and community health, evidence-informed health decisions, and sustainable healthcare and hospital systems.

These priorities are strengthened by expertise in research acceleration, digital health innovation and evaluation, and consumer and community partnerships, enabling IEBH to transform evidence into better decisions, better care and more sustainable health systems.

Website

https://iebh.bond.edu.au/

Organisation type

• University Research Institute

Number of research staff

Up to 20 research staff

Address

Bond University, 14 University Drive - Health Science and Medicine - Building 5, Gold Coast QLD 4229

Strengths and capabilities

• Evidence based practice & decision making
• Antibiotic resistance
• Non drug treatments
• Chronic and emerging conditions
• Evidence synthesis, systematic reviews and automation
• Implementation science
• Primary care
• CVD & secondary prevention
• Lived experience and community partnerships
• Health service evaluation and innovation
• Digital health and AI
• Health research methodologies & research acceleration

Facilities and major equipment

• Research acceleration tool: The Evidence Review Accelerator (TERA) is a precision research platform built for evidence-based healthcare. Purpose-built for speed, TERA helps research teams complete systematic reviews in a fraction of the time — without compromising methodological rigor.
• Purpose-built clinical & health service simulation suite
• High performance & biomechanics labs

Lead researchers

• Professor Julie Redfern AM - Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, member of the World Heart Federation Board and national lead of the Solve CHD research program
• Emeritus Professor Paul Glasziou—Identifying and removing the barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice
• Professor Tammy Hoffmann—co-Director of the Australasian EQUATOR centre; author of 'Evidence-Based Practice across the Health Professions'
• Professor Usman Iqbal - Professor of Digital Health and AI
• A/Prof Loai Albaqouni - NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow & evidence-informed decision making in primary care specialist

Achievements of the centre

• 2026 NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Heart Disease Survivorship - Prof Julie Redfern AM, Director IEBH
• Professor Tammy Hoffmann received the 2025 NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Leadership Award
• Prof Julie Redfern AM included in NHMRC's 2026 10 of the Best Research Projects
• Prof Julie Redfern AM awarded NHMRC Investigator Grant for Level 3 Leadership
• Five IEBH researchers included in the 2025 list of the top 2% of researchers in the world

Key science sectors

More information about the sectors this centre is involved in:

• Health and medical