Chris Silagy is the Chair of The Cochrane Collaboration between 1996 and 1998, and the founder as well as the first Director of the Australasian Cochrane Centre. He helped to establish the Chinese Cochrane Centre. He has made great contributions to the establishment and development of The Cochrane Collaboration to which he devoted his whole life. Though he died at the early age of 41, his optimism, great energy and b responsibility have left deep impression and inspiration to every one around him.
Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is an international collaboration center for evidence-based healthcare, which mainly focuse on evidence-based activities in nursing science, rehabilitation science and psychiatry science. The present article systematically and comprehensively introduces the foundation, development, mission, organizational structure, and the major contents of the JBI institute, so as to provide theory support for Chinese researchers who specialize in studying methods and practice in these given fields.