salve serif">From 27th to 30th May 2013, Cameroon hosts the fifth annual meeting of SURE, one of the main partners of the Centre for the Development of Best Practices in Health. This meeting which takes place at Mont-Febe Hôtel in Yaounde, will involve the participation of health researchers from a dozen countries in Africa. Participants will work on the guiding theme of the organization: "Supporting the use of research evidence for policy in African health systems. Specifically the work aims to enable participants to discuss ondifferent progress in health research in their respective countries, to propose and adopt targets for the current year and to plan for advocacy in health.

Note that SURE is a mechanism to support WHO to strengthen evidence-informed policy-making in Africa. It is also a collaborative project that builds on and supports the Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) in Africa and the Region of East Africa Community Health (REACH) Policy Initiative (Uganda). The SURE project involves teams of researchers’ policymakers in seven African countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Zambia). It is supported by research teams in three European countries and Canada.

SURE has to improve universal and equitable access to high quality health care, to use health care resources wisely by making well-informed policy decisions, help on access and use reliable evidence to inform decisions about African health systems.