The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI)
The JBI is a not-for-profit organisation jointly operated by the South Australian Department of Health and the University of Adelaide with headquarters in Adelaide and twenty-six Collaborating Centres across the world. Established in 1996, the Institute is now a major international agency for evidence-based health and aged care, conceived and established in South Australia, with headquarters located on the Royal Adelaide Hospital campus.
The Institute aims to facilitate evidence-based practice globally through being a leading international organisation for the Synthesis, Transfer and Utilisation of evidence of the feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness and effectiveness of health and aged care practices. Its role is to improve the feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness and effectiveness of clinical care practices and health and aged care outcomes.