ABSTRACT
This chapter examines globalization of evidence from the perspective of transportability. It elaborates on the effect of globalization of values, lifestyles, and other factors that may increasingly stimulate globalization of evidence-based interventions. It also elaborates on the relationship between globalization of evidence and service organizations that adopt globally recognized work cultures. Current thinking about the transportability or globalization of evidence is akin to the classic notion of generalizability and recognizes the value and necessity of multisite testing of evidence via replication studies as the ultimate gateway to successful global transportation of evidence. The question of translation and transportability, a longstanding historical challenge for social and behavioral sciences, has come into focus during the last two decades with the development of systematic research reviews as products of evidence for global dissemination by the Cochrane and Campbell collaborations. The chapter illustrates some of the considerations made when transporting EBIs from the West to China. It summarizes major challenges to globalization of evidence.
