Cochrane’s Governing Board is seeking to elect a new member. Cochrane is an international organisation and a registered charity in the UK, and members of the Governing Board from around the world are ‘Trustees’ of the charity. The Trustees carry ultimate responsibility for Cochrane and this is a critically important role. More information about…
Cochrane’s Governing Board is delighted to announce it has appointed Marguerite Koster as its new Co-Chair, taking over from Cindy Farquhar, who finishes her term in September 2018.
Marguerite is a Senior Manager at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit health plans in the U.S., serving 12.2 million members. She oversees…
Let’s meet the people who bring you Cochrane Crowd
Welcome to our first Cochrane Crowd Crew blog. This will be a blog series where Emily, Cochrane Crowd’s Communications & Partnerships Manager, interviews one of the fabulous Crowd team members, and shares what she discovers.
For this first chat, Emily spoke to Crowd’s Co-Lead Anna Noel-…
Cochrane Classmate could change how evidence production is taught in classrooms around the world.
Brought to you by the Cochrane Crowd team, Classmate is a trainers’ toolkit that allows you to create exciting, interactive tasks that help your students learn about evidence production. It is easy to use, and its first release is now available free…
Many of you have said you joined Cochrane Crowd not only to contribute but also to learn. That’s why we’ve been busy building Cochrane Crowd learning opportunities. We want to make it easy for you to learn while you contribute to Crowd tasks.
Here are six tips for boosting your knowledge with Cochrane Crowd.
By the way, if you don’t know about…
It is with pleasure, and a little trepidation, that we announce the launch of the Cochrane Crowd PICO task.
Building on the randomised trial identification task, this new task asks you to help describe the trial. In order to do that we’ve adopted a well-known framework called PICO. PICO stands for Population, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcome…
The minutes from the Governing Board’s meeting in Lisbon, 19 March 2018, are now available. Governing Board members are Cochrane’s directors and trustees, and are elected to direct the strategy and policies of the organization. Questions about the minutes can be sent to support@cochrane.org
Additional resources:
Minutes from Lisbon meeting.…
Cochrane UK runs occasional special series, sharing evidence and experience on a topic in multiple blogs and other material through social media channels. Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig share tips on how to put together a successful series. This is an abridged version of the blog post on Evidently Cochrane.
In the traditional tale, Goldilocks…
Register before the 22 June 2018 to get the reduced early bird rate
This year, the Colloquium will be held at the International Convention Centre in Edinburgh from 16-18 September 2018 and is expected to attract up to 1200 delegates.
The Colloquium will be a ‘Patients Included’ event; co-designed, co-produced and co-presented with patients and…
Cochrane Training is pleased to announce that Cochrane Review production training materials are now available in Russian.
The materials cover essential aspects of a Cochrane Review production based on the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The training materials, translated into Russian, consist of records of fourteen…
The day before the Cochrane Colloquium, Saturday 15th September 2018, Cochrane UK will be hosting a ‘Fringe Event’ for trainees (of any speciality) and students (of any discipline) interested in evidence-based healthcare. It will take place at the Edinburgh International Convention Centre, from 9:30am – 5:00pm.
The day will comprise a mixture of…
On behalf of everyone within the Cochrane community, we are sad to learn of the death of Professor Doug Altman. Doug was a leading medical statistician and played a foremost role in the development of evidence synthesis methods and reporting, in addition to his substantial role in the origin and later development of the Cochrane Collaboration.…
The agenda and open access papers for the Cochrane Governing Board meeting to be held by teleconference on 13 June 2018 are now available to view online, for information only.
Cochrane's governing body is the Governing Board, comprising at least 13 members of whom some are elected by Cochrane’s contributors and some are appointed by the Board.…
Cochrane contributors connect with audiences through social media, symposia, webinars, websites, newsletters, podcasts, blogshots, videos, and much more. We want to better understand your experiences and opinions of existing products and activities that you and/or your Group uses.
Cochrane's Knowledge Translation (KT) Framework is…
Cochrane Training is pleased to announce that we have re-launched training.cochrane.org with a new design – making the learning resources you need easier to find and use.
The redesigned site gives learners a clearer interface to access diverse learning opportunities. All resources are available through the search bar, as well as through our…
Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s citizen science platform, reached 2 million individual classifications on Tuesday 15th of May at 5.20pm UTC + 1, one day after the platform’s 2nd birthday!
In the lead up to the milestone Crowd ran the #Crowd2million campaign and around 100 people got involved, sharing screenshots and supporting this community to reach…
Cochrane's 2017 Annual Review is now available for download and dissemination. To find out more about what we achieved in 2017, what's happening across the organization in 2018, and links to share with stakeholders, please see cochrane.org for more information.
Sophie Staniszewska (University of Warwick Medical School), Simon Denegri (NIHR), Heather Bagley (The COMET Initiative & public contributor), Gary Hickey (NIHR INVOLVE), and Richard Morley (Cochrane) provide an update on #globalPPINetwork
Patient and public involvement is becoming embedded within health research internationally, dedicated to…
Cochrane UK is delighted to be hosting the 25th Cochrane Colloquium, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Scotland, from 16th to 18th September 2018.
For the first time at a Cochrane Colloquium, we will be taking the conversation #BeyondTheRoom. Beyond the Room is a digital conference service, started in 2016…
Nominations are now open for Co-Chair of the Cochrane Governing Board.
The deadline for receiving nominations is the end of the day on Sunday 27 May 2018 in any timezone.
The Board has two Co-Chairs, to share workload, utilize complementary skills and experience, and permit continuity through the Co-Chairs stepping down at different times. The…
Cochrane’s Governing Board is seeking to elect a new member. Cochrane is an international organisation and a registered charity in the UK, and members of the Governing Board from around the world are ‘Trustees’ of the charity. The Trustees carry ultimate responsibility for Cochrane and this is a critically important role. More information about…
Cochrane’s Governing Board is delighted to announce it has appointed Marguerite Koster as its new Co-Chair, taking over from Cindy Farquhar, who finishes her term in September 2018. Marguerite is a Senior Manager at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest not-for-profit health plans in the U.S., serving 12.2 million members. She oversees…
Let’s meet the people who bring you Cochrane Crowd Welcome to our first Cochrane Crowd Crew blog. This will be a blog series where Emily, Cochrane Crowd’s Communications & Partnerships Manager, interviews one of the fabulous Crowd team members, and shares what she discovers. For this first chat, Emily spoke to Crowd’s Co-Lead Anna Noel-…
Cochrane Classmate could change how evidence production is taught in classrooms around the world. Brought to you by the Cochrane Crowd team, Classmate is a trainers’ toolkit that allows you to create exciting, interactive tasks that help your students learn about evidence production. It is easy to use, and its first release is now available free…
Many of you have said you joined Cochrane Crowd not only to contribute but also to learn. That’s why we’ve been busy building Cochrane Crowd learning opportunities. We want to make it easy for you to learn while you contribute to Crowd tasks. Here are six tips for boosting your knowledge with Cochrane Crowd. By the way, if you don’t know about…
It is with pleasure, and a little trepidation, that we announce the launch of the Cochrane Crowd PICO task. Building on the randomised trial identification task, this new task asks you to help describe the trial. In order to do that we’ve adopted a well-known framework called PICO. PICO stands for Population, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcome…
The minutes from the Governing Board’s meeting in Lisbon, 19 March 2018, are now available. Governing Board members are Cochrane’s directors and trustees, and are elected to direct the strategy and policies of the organization. Questions about the minutes can be sent to support@cochrane.org Additional resources: Minutes from Lisbon meeting.…
Cochrane UK runs occasional special series, sharing evidence and experience on a topic in multiple blogs and other material through social media channels. Sarah Chapman and Selena Ryan-Vig share tips on how to put together a successful series. This is an abridged version of the blog post on Evidently Cochrane. In the traditional tale, Goldilocks…
Register before the 22 June 2018 to get the reduced early bird rate This year, the Colloquium will be held at the International Convention Centre in Edinburgh from 16-18 September 2018 and is expected to attract up to 1200 delegates. The Colloquium will be a ‘Patients Included’ event; co-designed, co-produced and co-presented with patients and…
Cochrane Training is pleased to announce that Cochrane Review production training materials are now available in Russian. The materials cover essential aspects of a Cochrane Review production based on the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The training materials, translated into Russian, consist of records of fourteen…
The day before the Cochrane Colloquium, Saturday 15th September 2018, Cochrane UK will be hosting a ‘Fringe Event’ for trainees (of any speciality) and students (of any discipline) interested in evidence-based healthcare. It will take place at the Edinburgh International Convention Centre, from 9:30am – 5:00pm. The day will comprise a mixture of…
On behalf of everyone within the Cochrane community, we are sad to learn of the death of Professor Doug Altman. Doug was a leading medical statistician and played a foremost role in the development of evidence synthesis methods and reporting, in addition to his substantial role in the origin and later development of the Cochrane Collaboration.…
The agenda and open access papers for the Cochrane Governing Board meeting to be held by teleconference on 13 June 2018 are now available to view online, for information only. Cochrane's governing body is the Governing Board, comprising at least 13 members of whom some are elected by Cochrane’s contributors and some are appointed by the Board.…
Cochrane contributors connect with audiences through social media, symposia, webinars, websites, newsletters, podcasts, blogshots, videos, and much more. We want to better understand your experiences and opinions of existing products and activities that you and/or your Group uses. Cochrane's Knowledge Translation (KT) Framework is…
Cochrane Training is pleased to announce that we have re-launched training.cochrane.org with a new design – making the learning resources you need easier to find and use. The redesigned site gives learners a clearer interface to access diverse learning opportunities. All resources are available through the search bar, as well as through our…
Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane’s citizen science platform, reached 2 million individual classifications on Tuesday 15th of May at 5.20pm UTC + 1, one day after the platform’s 2nd birthday! In the lead up to the milestone Crowd ran the #Crowd2million campaign and around 100 people got involved, sharing screenshots and supporting this community to reach…
Cochrane's 2017 Annual Review is now available for download and dissemination. To find out more about what we achieved in 2017, what's happening across the organization in 2018, and links to share with stakeholders, please see cochrane.org for more information.
Sophie Staniszewska (University of Warwick Medical School), Simon Denegri (NIHR), Heather Bagley (The COMET Initiative & public contributor), Gary Hickey (NIHR INVOLVE), and Richard Morley (Cochrane) provide an update on #globalPPINetwork Patient and public involvement is becoming embedded within health research internationally, dedicated to…
Cochrane UK is delighted to be hosting the 25th Cochrane Colloquium, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Scotland, from 16th to 18th September 2018. For the first time at a Cochrane Colloquium, we will be taking the conversation #BeyondTheRoom. Beyond the Room is a digital conference service, started in 2016…
Nominations are now open for Co-Chair of the Cochrane Governing Board. The deadline for receiving nominations is the end of the day on Sunday 27 May 2018 in any timezone. The Board has two Co-Chairs, to share workload, utilize complementary skills and experience, and permit continuity through the Co-Chairs stepping down at different times. The…