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  • Winning the 2017 Kenneth Warren Prize
    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…
  • Community News
    The US Cochrane Center, based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, has closed. Director Professor Kay Dickersin, and Associate Directors Tianjing Li and Roberta Scherer have stepped down from their positions, but will continue to work with Cochrane in other capacities. Cochrane’s Governing Board Co-Chairs Martin…
  • Living systematic review re-published in record time
    Teams at Australia’s University of Newcastle,  Cochrane Heart, and Project Transform’s living systematic review (LSR), machine learning and citizen science experts have combined forces to re-publish one of Cochrane’s first LSRs in record time. Following an update in September 2017, the LSR of ‘Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable…
  • Official launch of first Cochrane Review Group Networks
    We are proud to announce this week the official launch of our first Cochrane Review Group (CRG) Networks, Cochrane Public Health and Health Systems and Cochrane Cancer. We welcome the formation of these new thematic Networks as part of the implementation of Cochrane’s CRG Transformation programme, which sets out the changes we will be making to…
  • Januray 2018 Meeting of Cochrane Portugal
    On 25 January 2018, Cochrane Portugal held a Meeting in Coimbra. Those who attended the event included Xavier Bonfill, Director of the Cochrane Iberoamerica, António Vaz Carneiro, Director of Cochrane Portugal, João Costa, Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Movement Disorders, and over 20 representatives of several Portuguese academic and scientific…
  • Next steps for Cochrane Membership: an update for Cochrane Groups
    7th February Update As of January 2018 we started sending out these membership activation emails through a gradual process. We hope to have sent out all emails by the middle of February. Everyone who does not respond will receive a reminder after 6 weeks. Key messages We are writing to everyone in Cochrane for two reasons For those…
  • Changes to Cochrane’s Central Executive Team
    Dear Cochrane colleagues, I wrote to you last week reflecting on Cochrane’s 2017 achievements and outlining the key organizational priorities for us over the next twelve months. 2018 promises to be another exciting year of transformation and change as we increase still further our capacity to produce and disseminate high-quality evidence to…
  • Cochrane Airways Group looks ahead to 2018
    Rebecca Normansell is Joint Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Airways, one of five Review Groups in the Cochrane Circulation and Breathing Networks. She shares with us some of her personal views on the work of her Group this year, and outlines the opportunities and challenges facing Cochrane Airways in 2018. Can you tell us a little about the main…
  • Announcing the launch of the Community Support Team
    Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to announce that we are establishing a new community support team. The team will be providing a helpdesk style support service to the community managing support areas such as IT support, learning enquiries and general contact enquiries. For most enquiries from the community this team will be the first point of…
  • Cochrane seeks Head of Membership, Learning & Support Services
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  • Cochrane seeks Head of Knowledge Translation
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  • Why have three long-running Cochrane Reviews on influenza vaccines been stabilised?
    Three Cochrane Reviews focussing on the prevention of influenza in healthy adults, healthy children, and in the elderly are long-running reviews under the same senior author team. The protocol for the oldest review was first published 20 years ago. Over the years the reviews have progressively accumulated evidence leading to ever greater…
  • Implementation Science publishes a series of 7 articles on GRADE-CERQual
    Findings from syntheses of qualitative research can help provide evidence on people’s views of health and social care issues, about whether interventions are acceptable to the people affected by them, and about factors that are likely to influence implementation. Such syntheses are being used increasingly to inform decisions about health and…
  • New Year Message 2018
    While we’re almost at the end of January already, it is still well worth reflecting on Cochrane’s achievements in 2017 and what lies ahead for the organization. 2018 promises to be another exciting year of transformation and change as we increase still further our capacity to produce and disseminate high-quality evidence to impact health decision…
  • Cochrane welcomes new Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group
    Cochrane is delighted to announce the establishment of a new Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group based in Oregon. The Cochrane Fertility Regulation Group was originally registered in 1997 but was led by Frans and Anja Helmerhorst until their recent retirement in 2016. Since then the Group has been under the care of Cochrane Gynaecology and…
  • Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility establishes Satellite Group in the Netherlands
    Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group in Auckland, New Zealand in collaboration with the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, has established a new Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility satellite. The satellite will start off with gathering, evaluating, and disseminating reviews on the effectiveness and safety of interventions…
  • Evaluating the Health in my Language project
    For the past three years, Cochrane was a partner in the EU-funded project called Health in my Language (HimL), aiming to use advances in machine translation to make health content available in different languages. Here, Hayley Hassan, Translation Support Officer, presents the results of an evaluation task led by Cochrane as part of the project,…
  • A match made in blogshot heaven: Cochrane Iberoamérica teams up with Spanish nutrition network Red-NuBE
    Cochrane Iberoamérica has been working on a blogshots translation project with a Spanish evidence-based nutrition network. The partnership came about after a chance encounter at a Cochrane virtual meeting for translators! Here, Eduard Baladia, a dietician and member of RED-NuBE, and Andrea Cervera, translation manager at Cochrane Iberoamérica,…
  • Cochrane Colloquium Edinburgh 2018 has been officially granted ‘Patients Included’ status
    The 25th annual Cochrane Colloquium, to be held in Edinburgh 16-18 September, has now been officially granted ‘Patients Included’ status, appearing on the official list of ‘Patients Included’ accredited conferences. The Patients Included conference charter provides conference organisers with ‘a means of demonstrating that their events are…
  • First aid for reviews – 11 top tips for editors
    This Blog presents commentary and personal opinion on topics of interest from a range of contributors to the work of Cochrane. Opinions posted on the Cochrane Blog are those of the individual contributors and do not reflect the official views or policies of Cochrane. It was sobering to reread the following blog written in March 2016.  On one…
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