A round-up of upcoming Cochrane-related events and conferences
Whether you're a healthcare professional, researcher, or simply interested in evidence-based healthcare, this listing of events, both in-person and virtual, offers a diverse array of opportunities to engage with the latest developments in evidence synthesis in health. From webinars and symposiums to workshops and seminars, join us in fostering evidence-based healthcare on a global scale
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August
World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding Journey - Between Science and Love
Date: 7 August, online
The 1-7 August is World Breastfeeding Week, and the full month of August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month for many countries. Join the Cochrane US Mentoring Programme for an insightful webinar with global experts to discuss the science and love connected to breastfeeding. Check in your time zone and register in advance.
Webinar: E-SCOPE: A Model for Identifying & Accelerating Implementation of Evidence-Based Best Practices
Date: 26 August 2024 from 16.30-17.30 Norway time (CET).
Joel Whittaker from Kaiser Permanente (KP) in the USA will be discussing how the E-SCOPE program (Evidence Scanning for Clinical and Operational Practice Efficiencies) works to put recently published, pre-screened, high-quality evidence in the hands of clinical decision makers who can make better, faster decisions about the implementation of best practices to improve the effectiveness, safety, timeliness and/or efficiency of care. To attend this Cochrane People, Health Systems and Public Health webinar, please register here.
September
Evidence-Based Research Conference
Date: 9 September, satellite meeting to the Global Evidence Summit, Prague, Czech Republic.
The theme for this year’s conference is Bridging Silos. Keynote speakers and panels will address EBR Across Disciplines and EBR Moving Beyond the Global North. Abstract submissions open until 3 June. More information.
Global Evidence Summit
Date: 10-13 September Prague, Czech Republic.
Four global leaders in evidence synthesis and evidence-based practice, Cochrane, JBI, Guidelines International Network, and The Campbell Collaboration, invite you to join the eagerly anticipated 2nd Global Evidence Summit. These organizations are forgoing their annual conferences in 2024, and uniting once again to provide an event with a unique opportunity to exchange ideas about how best to produce, summarise and disseminate evidence to inform policy and practice, and use that evidence to improve people’s lives across the world. More information and website.
Lived Experience in Living Guidelines: Recruiting for Diversity
Date: 19 September, online
In this webinar, Dr. Annie Synnot (Cochrane Australia; Monash University) & Alecia Staines (Maternity Consumer Network)Annie and Alecia will describe how they designed, recruited and supported a consumer / lived experience engagement approach for the Living Evidence for Australian Pregnancy and Postnatal care (LEAPP) guidelines. Together they operationalized what ‘diversity’ meant for these guidelines, and selected a 16-member Consumer Panel with a diversity of pregnancy and postnatal experiences, consumer representative experience and that reflects key demographic groups relevant to the guidelines. They will describe the practical steps they took to reduce the barriers to participation and create an inclusive and impactful consumer engagement approach. See in your time zone and register.
International Clinical Trials and Methodology Conference
Date: 30 September, Edinburgh, Scotland
The biggest academic-led conference on clinical trials methodology. More information and website.
October
Systematic Review course by Cochrane Belgium
Date: 9 - 11 October at Leuven, Belgium
Cochrane Belgium is pleased to announce that registration is open for our 3-day course on Cochrane Systematic Reviews of Interventions. This course will teach you all about the different steps to take in order to perform a high-quality, methodologically sound and reliable literature overview. This hands-on course consists of plenary sessions and workshops. Participants get hands-on experience with all review steps. There is ample time to discuss individual problems of ongoing (Cochrane) review projects with the instructors. Learn more and register here
Cochrane Colombia Symposium 2024
Date: 24-25 October, in-person at the San José Children's Hospital, Bogotá, Colombia and Zoom.
With the theme of 'Innovation in evidence synthesis and knowledge transfer' the two days will feature the participation of experts and professionals from the entire Ibero-American region and from other countries around the world associated with Cochrane. More information.
RehabEvolution - Technological Innovation in Neurorehabilitation
Date: 25-26 October, Bologna
This Italian language conference will be attended by Cochrane Rehabilitation. More information.
Virtual GRADE Guideline Development Workshop
Date: 30 October - 1 November 11:00 EDT (view in your timezone)
This fully online workshop will take place over three days: October 30 - November 1, 2024, beginning each day at 11am Eastern Daylight Time and features a special focus on GRADE for prognosis and risk prediction models. Additional pre-workshop courses on Systematic Reviews and Guideline Fundamentals for Panel Members and Organization Staff will be held the day prior, Tuesday, October 29, from 5-8pm EDT. Additional access to INGUIDE Level 1 and 2 certification available. Register here
November
Introduction to Systematic Reviews in Health (Interactive live course held over two mornings on Zoom)
Date: 5 November 2024 and 12 November 2024 09:00 – 13:00 (view in your timezone)
This live online course is delivered by Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre (SHTAC).
It is for anyone planning or currently doing a systematic review, or anyone curious about how reviews are done and what makes them systematic. More Information and to book
Cochrane Methods Week
Date: 18-22 November, online
GRADE for interventions
Date: 22 November online
We will focus on the GRADE approach for interventions. The course consists of plenary lectures on how to assess the certainty of evidence and how to formulate a recommendation based on an evidence profile. Participants get hands-on experience using small-sized workshops. There will be ample room for questions. This course is organized by the Belgian Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Cebam) in collaboration with Cochrane Belgium, WOREL and Domus Medica. Learn more and register here
2025
September
The Tenth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
Date: 3-5 September 2025, Swissôtel, Chicago
The Congress, organized by JAMA, The BMJ, and METRICS, will feature 3 days of presentations of new and original research.Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication and to further the evidence base on which scientists can improve the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of scientific research. Abstracts due 31 January 2025. For more information go to peerreviewcongress.org or contact: jama-peer@jamanetwork.org
GIN 2025 Conference
16-19 September 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
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