International Dissemination of Evidence Based Practice

This Round Table session will focus on the following:

• Assessing the "state of play" in "evidence based practice" in different countries/parts of the world.
• Consideration of current ways in which this is disseminated - how is it being disseminated, who it is reaching and who it is not reaching.
• The development and role of Mentor's Prevention Hub
• How to build the knowledge of evidence based practice outside USA, Europe
• The development and dissemination of quality standards
• Challenges of dissemination
• How to reach policy makers and practitioners
• The way forward

There is an ongoing challenge to those working within the drug prevention community as a researcher/scientist or as policy maker or practitioner working in the prevention field with different target groups. On the one hand the "prevention scientists"are now building an increasing evidence base for best practice alongside offering "quality standards" to be applied in prevention work. The potential of this information is to increase both the effectiveness and efficiency, at the cost and person levels, for the prevention practitoner and policy maker. However the dissemination of the learning and the communication between the scientist and the prevention policy maker and practitioner remains a challenge. This is particularly true for those working in developing countries and is further complicated by the fact theat most of the science emanates from USA and Europe. New efforts are being made to bridge this gap of applying learning and science to policy and practice and through translational research. This Round Table session will allow developments in the areas of best practice and quality standards to be shared. It will consider ways to help the information, and those producing it, to be accessed  by all involved in the drug prevention field. It will encourage ideas to be shared of how this challenge of communication and dissemination can be addressed more effectively.  It will aim to provide examples from different parts of the world where this issue is being addressed and the needs and challenges that have to be overcome if there is to be a way forward for linking prevention science with policy and practice. The discussants will offer important international perspectives on these matters to introduce the session and to promote an active debate on the way forward for progressing international dissemination of best practice.