DR Okwen PM is a clinician with the ministry of health in Cameroon where he practices at the Bali District health service and also has an administrative and decision-making role as the district medical officer. He coordinates activities of Effective Basic Services (eBASE) Africa, which is an evidence implementation body and a Joanna Briggs Affiliated Group. He is a research fellow with the center for development of Best practices in Health in Cameroon. He is the recipient of the Cochrane Aubrey Sheiham Leadership award for evidence-based healthcare for Africa in 2016. He is part of the Cochrane Learning Initiative for Experienced Authors. He is actively involved with Cochrane as an author and working groups. He is a Joanna Briggs Clinical Fellow. He leads the African Guidelines International Network Community. He has been working with the MagicApp Project to develop trustworthy rapid recommendations available on mobile devices. He is also an external member of the WHO guidelines review committee. Dr. Okwen is passionate about getting evidence into health systems and making healthcare more effective and more performant and training clinicians and researchers in Africa to be able to generate, synthesize, transfer and implement evidence for global health