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Midwifery COnNECT: access to global evidence to enhance maternal and infant health One of the most important priorities for global public health is care of women and their infants. There is a myriad of primary and secondary source evidence to support best practice, but clinicians working within the maternity services in different parts of the world may be unable to access resources produced outside of their own borders, or unaware of how evidence of effectiveness produced from a different health care setting could be synthesised, appraised, and utilised to inform care within their own locale. This presentation will focus on how to search for the best available international evidence to inform maternity care, using the resources available within the JBI Midwifery COnNECT platform. The first three steps to identify evidence of effectiveness in relation to searching on a clinical topic area will be described, using evidence to support the uptake of breastfeeding as an example. Steps will be described on searching for evidence, appraising the evidence, summarising and disseminating the evidence. Step 1 will focus on the search for best available international evidence, including access to systematic reviews, and other sources of evidence appraised and summarised by JBI through Midwifery COnNECT and other review centres, including DARE and AHRQ. Step 2 will focus on undertaking an appraisal of the evidence, if the evidence identified has not already been through this process. The JBI RAPid training resource which has been developed to assist the clinician to develop their appraisal skills will be described. Step 3 will describe how evidence to support the uptake of breastfeeding could be presented into a range of user-friendly resources to inform practice. Strategies to support decision making in everyday practice and dissemination amongst clinicians, service users, service managers and all relevant stakeholders will be described.