Funded by European Union, Professor Khalid Khan led the EBM-CONNECT (Evidence-Based Medicine COllaboratioN NEtwork for systematic reviews and guideline development researCh and disseminaTion) Collaboration. It was funded by European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-Marie Curie International Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) (N° 247613) from 2010 to 2014.

It was an international research staff exchange scheme for harmonisation, knowledge transfer and upgrading of research synthesis training. The collaboration included the following six: Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales, Argentina; University of British Columbia, Canada; Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, China; Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain; and University of Birmingham Medical School, and Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Over two dozen individual exchanges took place and there were 16 peer-reviewed publications, including two in high-impact journals JAMA and the Lancet.