The Governance Meetings provide the main annual opportunity for Cochrane’s senior leaders and Group managers to come together to learn about and discuss organizational priorities, challenges and opportunities. Each year they are hosted by a different Cochrane Group. The 2019 Cochrane Governance Meetings were hosted by Cochrane Poland in Krakow on 1-5 April.
We are pleased to share with you the opening ceremonies for the Cochrane Governance Meetings 2019.
0:00 - 0:35 Welcome - Martin Burton, Governing Board Co-Chair
0:36 - 1:53 Opening Speech from Host - Professor Rafal Olszanecki, Cochrane Poland
1:54 - 18:38 Governing Board Co-Chairs - Martin Burton and Marguerite Koster
18:39 - 34:30 Meeting our Mission - Mark Wilson, CEO (View PowerPoint slides)
34:31 - 1:00:42 Editor in Chief Report - David Tovey, Editor in Chief (View PowerPoint slides)
1:00:43 -1:08:24 Cochrane Council Co-Chairs Update - Miranda Langendam and Fergus Macbeth
1:08:25 - 1:16:08 Question Period (referenced article by Trish Greenhalgh)
Following these opening remarks there was a full day of cross-group strategic sessions on Tuesday 2 April and a half-day on the morning of Wednesday 3 April (download full program). Documents that were discussed during these sessions include:
- Principles of Collaboration - Draft for consultation
- CRG Networks Panel programme
- Authorship of Cochrane Reviews - from the Cochrane Council
- Recruiting and retaining skilled authors for Cochrane Reviews - from the Senior Management Team
Cochrane Review Group Networks Panel Discussion
This was an interactive discussion and presentation session on the opportunities and challenges for all Group-types in supporting the continuous improvement of editorial standards for Cochrane Reviews and the development of CRG Networks.
Pictures: You can view and download pictures from the Governance Meeting from our Dropbox Folder.
Summary of the meetings:
- Message from the Governing Board
- Cochrane Croatia shares their experience
- Cochrane Rehabilitation provides a summary
Did you attend the meetings? We would like to find out how you found this year's Governance Meetings and how we can improve them further for when we meet again next year in Manchester, UK. We hope that this survey is an opportunity to collect suggestions on how we can better work together and how we can create Governance Meetings that are collaborative and productive. Your honest feedback is important in helping to improve future meetings. Your name and department will not be collected and your answers are confidential. If you were an attendee of the Krakow meetings, please take five minutes to complete the survey by Friday 3 May. We will review the answers and report back to the Cochrane Council and Board in May.
Would you like like to discuss the Governance Meetings further? All Cochrane Members can provide feedback on the Governance Meetings on the Cochrane Forums (topic: Governance > Governance Meetings 2019).