Priority setting is a hot topic in Cochrane!  This is understandable as, in order to be relevant to the needs of our users, Cochrane evidence needs to respond to national, regional, and global health priorities.  However, with the big push towards conducting more priority setting processes across Cochrane, we know it’s difficult to keep up to date with what is currently going on!

With this in mind, we have launched a ‘Current Cochrane Group Priority Setting Projects’ page. We hope this will become a ‘go-to’ place to keep up-to-date with which groups are conducting priority setting exercises and how you could get involved, rather than having to trawl through individual group websites.

If you are running a priority setting process and would like your process to be included on this page, the information to provide is below.  Once completed, simply submit the information requested and send to Muriah (mumoquit@cochrane.org) who will ensure that it is posted. If part of your priority setting process involves a survey open to a broad group of users, then you can consider sending to Muriah to be included as part of the weekly Comms Digest and advertised through the ‘Survey round-up’ page.

As well as the guidance note for Cochrane groups, the Knowledge Translation Working Group on Priority Setting has also developed a number of other resources for priority setting. These include, case studies and examples of documents from around Cochrane such as priority setting plans, surveys, workshop agendas and publications. All of these are freely available in the ‘Priority Setting’ pages of the Cochrane Training - Knowledge Translation Resources website . 

And if you can’t find what you’re looking for or have suggestions – please let us know (khead@cochrane.org)!

Cochrane Group:
URL of Group website:
Twitter Handle:
Title of Priority Setting:
General information: 1-2 sentences explaining what the scope of the priority setting is, any specific methods and/or stakeholders which will be involved.
Target Audience: 1-2 sentences explaining the target audience of your current stage in your priority setting. e.g. general public, health professionals. 
Special requests: Optional; Is there anything (with approximate dates) that the Cochrane Central Executive or other Cochrane Groups/Cochrane members could help with? e.g. Disseminating surveys, linking up with stakeholders etc.
End date: What is the date after which input from other Cochrane Groups would be unhelpful? When should your information be removed from this page?
Further information: e.g. Link to priority setting plan on Group website, link to survey.