• ECOVID-19 RecMap Knowledge Mobilization: Moving knowledge into action (Natasha Gloeck, South African Medical Research Council)

• South Africa newborn and child health national and provincial clinical practice guideline (CPG): A landscape analysis (Mashudu Mthethwa, South African Medical Research Council)

• COVID-19 vaccine coverage in South Africa: COVID-19 vaccine coverage, trends and patterns in South Africa: Do they vary across subsets of the population? (Edith Phalane, University of Johannesburg)

• Rapid reviews for rapid decision-making: South African COVID-19 therapeutics national and global collaboration (Sumayyah Ebrahim, South African Medical Research Council)

• Analysing and translating evidence into practice: Baricitinib for the treatment of COVID-19 (Andy Parrish, Walter Sisulu University and Frere and Cecilia Makiwane)

Short oral session 2: Producing high quality evidence

• Perceptions of human movement researchers and clinicians on the barriers and facilitators to health research data sharing in Africa (Oluchukwu Loveth Obiora, University of Witwatersrand)

• Harnessing big heterogenous data to evaluate the potential impact of HIV responses among key populations in generalised epidemic settings in sub-Saharan Africa (Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya, South African Medical Research Council/ University of Johannesburg Africa Centre for Epidemics Research)

• A model to facilitate research uptake in health care practice and policy development for low-resource countries (Jerry Sigudla, Mpumalanga Provincial Department of Health)

• Prospective registration of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in Africa (Lindi Mathebula, South African Medical Research Council)

Poster session 1: COVID-19/Infectious diseases

• Vitamin C for SARS-CoV-2 infection: a rapid review

• Characterizing the impact of COVID-19 on HIV treatment services among key populations in Sub Saharan Africa: A systematic review

• Statistical predictive modeling and machine learning of HIV prevention and care continuum among key populations in Sub Saharan Africa: A systematic review

• Determining the nature of COVID-19 impact on the provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis among key populations in Sub Saharan Africa: a systematic review

• The Impact of COVID 19 on provision of HIV testing services and mitigation strategies among key population in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Mapping evidence of self-sampling to diagnose sexually transmitted infections in women: A scoping review

• Simulation of the World Health Organization global infodemic managers’ framework and Covid-19 research evidence in a post-truth world in South Africa: A scoping review

• Factors influencing parents' acceptance of routine childhood vaccination: A Cochrane qualitative evidence synthesis

• National treatment guidelines for COVID-19 in South Africa: evolving rapid review methods to meet needs for  evidence-informed decision-making

Welcome by Charles Shey Wiysonge, Senior Director of Cochrane South Africa

Sara Cooper
Dr Cooper is Senior Scientist in Cochrane South Africa at the South African Medical Research Council and Honorary researcher in the Division of Social & Behavioural Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town.

Title: Vaccine information/misinformation and hesitancy - what can we learn from the evidence

Natasha Koch
Dr Anastasia Koch co-founded Eh!woza together with conceptual artist Ed Young in 2013. The organisation operates at the intersection of public engagement, youth advocacy, science communication and skills development to merge the biology of infectious disease with its social impact.

Title: Sharing information in innovative ways during COVID-19 pandemic - strategies to reach the community

Lesley Bamford
Dr Bamford is a paediatrician who also holds post-graduate degrees in the social sciences and public health.  She has worked in the Child, Youth and School Health Chief Directorate in the National Department of Health since 2006

Title:  COVID-19 vaccine implementation in South Africa - lessons learned

Poster session 2: Non communicable diseases/Other

• Signal of harm in Morphine use in adults with pulmonary oedema: A rapid systematic review

• Systematic review and meta-analysis of association between oral contraceptives and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in premenopausal women

• Cardiovascular risk factors in antiretroviral therapy-treated patients living with HIV and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic factors

• Which policies and interventions work to influence the school food environment? A systematic review

• Spatial accessibility of public healthcare facilities: The case of City of Tshwane in South Africa

• Prognostic markers in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia on chemoimmunotherapy with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic factors

• IPD sharing plan statement: A clinical trials registry perspective