Our Centre

Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice (CEBP) or previously known as Julius Centre University of Malaya was established in 2008. The centre was created to increase Malaysia’s expertise in the fields of clinical epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and biostatistics.

The Julius Centre University of Malaya was born out of the collaboration of the University Medical Centre, Utrecht (UMCU). UMCU together with the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), University of Oxford, the Rumah Sakit Cipto Mangunkusumo (RSCM) Hospital, Jakarta and UM were earlier members of the Asia-Link project, an Asia-Europe Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine project (fondly referred to as Asia-Link within JCUM) funded by grants from the European Union. Although the project ended in December 2010, to further strengthen the ties between UMCU, CEBM, RSCM and UM, it was decided that the department would set up a centre that would further the collaboration beyond the remit of the Asia-Link project.

The strengths of the centre lie in its expertise in epidemiology and research, medical statistics and evidence-based medicine. This centre believes epidemiology is an integral part of illness or disease prevention rather than cure. It covers the determinants of social health issues, plans and evaluates strategies, and measures the outcome for a population at risk. The other main strength of the centre is its close links to its partners in the Netherlands, Australia, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates. Since its inception, the centre has been active in carrying out activities both under the Asia-Link programme as well as its own activities separately from the Asia-link programme.