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  • Call for Nominations:  Cochrane Governing Board members
    Deadline for submitting nominations: 20 June 2017 Two internal members Three external members One Co-Chair Do you want to help shape Cochrane’s strategic direction and build your leadership profile? Cochrane exists so that healthcare decisions get better. Over the past 20 years we have helped to transform the way health decisions are made…
  • Call for agenda items: upcoming Cochrane Council meeting
    The Cochrane Council was established in November 2016 as part of Cochrane’s governance restructure, to ensure that Cochrane Groups retain an effective voice in Cochrane’s leadership and strategic decision-making. The Council met for the first time at the Cochrane Mid-Year Meeting in Geneva, April 2017, and will be meeting again by teleconference…
  •  Cochrane launches Cochrane Iran
    Cochrane is proud to announce its newest Associate Centre, Cochrane Iran. The Cochrane Iran Associate Centre is located in the city of Tehran, within the National Institute for Medical Research Development (NIMAD) of the Islamic Republic of Iran. NIMAD is a national public granting body for medical research, which is under supervision…
  • Cochrane’s Bill Silverman Prize - nominations open for 2017!
    In the words of Cochrane’s 2015 winner: “If you have an interesting article that you think fits the remit – submit it! Working in the field relevant to the Cochrane community, I know that there are many worthy articles out there for the award that are not considered because they are simply not submitted.” (Jamie Kirkham, Senior Lecturer in Medical…
  • Cochrane Croatia awarded full, independent Centre status
    Cochrane is delighted to announce that Cochrane Croatia has been recognized for its outstanding achievements in promoting evidence-based decision-making in health care by being awarded full, independent Centre status. The Centre consists of longstanding, dedicated Cochrane enthusiasts located at the University of Split School of Medicine, where…
  • Find out why you should come to #GESummit17
    Early bird registration for the Summit closes this Friday, 7 July (23:59 SAST). Don’t miss out on the 11% discount! Trying to make a decision about attending the first-ever Global Evidence Summit before early bird registration ends 7 July? Find out more about what's on the programme - plenaries, speakers, discussion topics, and other events - on…
  • Cochrane and WHO meet to discuss how to improve their long-standing partnership
    Sylvia de Haan is Cochrane's Partnerships Co-ordinator, and blogs periodically about work with our partners. You can read more in her previous blogs about engagement with the WHO, as well our partnership with Wikipedia. The World Health Organization (WHO) is Cochrane's largest external partner, and one of our oldest, with whom we have been in…
  • Cochrane Austria awarded full, independent Centre status
    Cochrane is delighted to announce that Cochrane Austria has been recognized for its outstanding achievements in promoting evidence-based decision-making in health care by being awarded full, independent Centre status. Opened in 2010 as a branch of Cochrane, Cochrane Austria consists of longstanding, dedicated Cochrane enthusiasts located in the…
  • Get involved in the Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative
    We are looking for people to get involved with the Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative. Whether you are new to Wikipedia and Cochrane, or you are a seasoned Wikipedian or Cochrane contributor, there is a task for you. Cochrane has a commitment to producing and sharing high-quality medical evidence to as broad an audience as possible. As a way of…
  • Cochrane in daily practice: facilitating the implementation of the best Cochrane evidence.
    Cochrane Mexico has launched an initiative to bring Cochrane Reviews into daily practice, in order to promote informed decision making. Dr. Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola, of Cochrane Mexico and The Pediatric Hospital of Sinaloa, who is leading the initiative, explains more below. How did the idea arise? For a while, we had been thinking about how to…
  • Kenneth Warren
    Every year Cochrane recognizes the outstanding work of Kenneth Warren, a scientist, extremely influential in drawing attention to the 'great neglected diseases' that plague people in developing countries. He prioritized the need for valid summaries of key research studies and to the way electronic media could be used to disseminate results of…
  • Cochrane Japan gets independent Centre status
    Cochrane Japan has been recognized for its outstanding achievements in promoting evidence-based decision-making in health care by moving from a Cochrane Associate Centre to being awarded full, independent Centre status. The Centre consists of longstanding, dedicated Cochrane enthusiasts located at the National Centre for Child Health and…
  • h through social media: the peripheral venous catheters story from Cochrane UK
    Reposted with permission from Evidently Cochrane This blog by Sarah Chapman @SarahChapman30 reflects on how Cochrane UK shared Cochrane evidence on replacement of peripheral venous catheters. The blog was first published as an example of using social media to share research on the website of The HARTS of the possible project, which is…
  • New Cochrane Blog post from the Crowd team
    How can we make it easier for health practitioners to access current evidence to inform treatments? One of Cochrane’s responses has been Cochrane Crowd, a platform that enables anyone with an interest in health to dive into tasks that help identify and describe health research. Cochrane Crowd is making it easier for health researchers to find the…
  • Decisions from the Cochrane Governing Board meeting, April 2017
    Please find below the main decisions made by the Cochrane Governing Board (previously known as Steering Group) at its meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, April 5-7. If you have any questions about these decisions, please contact a member of the Board. The Board: approved the Cochrane Knowledge Translation (KT) framework. Next steps will be…
  • Cochrane in numbers: January–March 2017
    Cochrane’s organizational Dashboard presents our achievements in key metrics.   We use it as an excellent tool to reflect on our accomplishments on a quarterly basis.   Here are just a few highlights from Q1 2017: Cochrane Library use in Q1 shows a 35% year on year increase in demand. Cochrane Crowd now has over 5,000 members…
  • Cochrane launches Cochrane Sweden
    Cochrane is proud to announce its newest Associate Centre, Cochrane Sweden. The new Cochrane Sweden Centre is located in the city of Lund, and is affiliated with the Department of Research & Development / Section for HTA Analysis, Skåne University Hospital, in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and with…
  • Call for applications: Cochrane Review Support Programme
    We are pleased to announce that the fourth funding round of the Cochrane Review Support Programme (CRSP) pilot is now open. There are two important changes to note with this round: The number of grants has been reduced to eight (16 grants in total for 2017). We will now offer an extended due date for complex reviews. The due date for standard…
  •  Defining Cochrane’s success - an interview with Cochrane's CEO
      2017 sees Cochrane enter its fourth year of Strategy to 2020, which aims to put Cochrane evidence at the heart of health decision-making all over the world. Cochrane’s focus during 2016 has been on the delivery of mission critical initiatives, many of which will begin widespread implementation in 2017. These include changes to the…
  • Translating evidence: Cochrane Croatia records its first podcasts
    In March 2017, members of Cochrane Croatia, led by Irena Zakarija-Grković, recorded their first podcasts in Croatian. In 2016, Irena received a small grant from the Croatian Ministry of Science for the ‘Popularization of Science’, and what better way to do that than by translating and recording Cochrane Podcasts! First, Hayley Hassan, from the…
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