The Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Centre is a team of researchers and professionals based at University College London who: Conduct systematic reviews across health, education, welfare and other public policy sectors.

The Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Centre is based at the Social Science Research Unit within the UCL Social Research Institute, a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Our mission is to promote and support collaborative, rigorous evidence for a fairer world, by focusing on:

EPPI Centre tools have been developed to assist with the practical aspects of systematic research synthesis, incluiding guidelines, data management, EPPI-Reviewer, MetaLight and the EPPI Centre Cost Converter.

EPPI-Reviewer has been developed to support the EPPI Centre’s programme of work over the past 15 years in conducting, and supporting others to undertake, systematic reviews across a wide range of public policy areas.

This fitted well with the EPPI Centre's approach to user led systematic reviews concerned with all questions and types of research evidence. In 2000 the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) funded the EPPI Centre to be a Centre for …

The EPPI Centre provides and is involved in supporting a number of databases containing primary research studies and evidence reviews, many of which have been used in EPPI Centre systematic reviews.

The EPPI Centre’s comprehensive software tool for supporting all stages of the review process. It can be used for a wide range of types of review and includes information technology to speed up the review process.

EPPI-Reviewer is an application for all types of literature review, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, 'narrative' reviews and meta-ethnographies. It is suitable for small or large-scale reviews (with some of our existing reviews containing over a million items).

EPPI-Reviewer 4 is the EPPI Centre's comprehensive online software tool for research synthesis. It is a web-based software program for managing and analysing data in literature review and has been developed for all types of systematic review such as meta-analysis, framework synthesis and thematic synthesis.

The Policy Reviews Facility has grown out of a previous ‘reviews facility’ in Health Promotion and Public Health; this is the longest-running programme of work in the EPPI Centre, and has been funded by the Department of Health and Social Care since 1995.