Agenda and minutes

Papers submitted for the Board’s consideration are either open access, restricted access, or closed access. Meeting minutes follow the same format:

Open

The default access level for papers submitted to the Board.

These papers are published on the Cochrane Community website as part of an open access ‘agenda pack’ and are available to anyone.

Cochrane's Trustees' Reports & Financial Statements are open access and made available on cochrane.org, here.

Restricted

For papers that include information about individuals, or strategic and business plans that are not in the Charity’s best interests to make publicly available.

Full versions of these papers are only made available to the Trustees, and other meeting participants at the Co-Chairs’ discretion, in advance of a meeting. If only certain sections of a paper need to be kept restricted, an open access version will be published with the restricted access content redacted.

Following consideration of the full paper, the Board may choose to keep it permanently restricted where the information remains private or sensitive, or publish it when sensitive information is time-limited.

Closed

    
For papers that contain private or sensitive information at the time of submission to the Board that the authors feel should only be shared with the Trustees.

These papers are made available only to the Board.

The Cochrane Governing Board was known as the Cochrane Steering Group (CSG) before 2017.

6 December 2023: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
31 August - 2 September: LondonMinutesAgenda and open access papers
18-20 May 2023: ParisMinutesAgenda and open access papers
21 March 2023: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
14 March 2023: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
6 December 2022: TeleconferenceNo formal agenda
16 November 2022: TeleconferenceFormal agenda (to follow)
12 October 2022: TeleconferenceNo formal agenda
21 September 2022: TeleconferenceAgenda and open access papers
16 August 2022: TeleconferenceNo formal agenda
13 July 2022: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
22 June 2022: TeleconferenceNo formal agenda
11 May 2022: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
13 April 2022: TeleconferenceNo formal agenda
9 March 2022: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
9 February 2022: TeleconferenceMinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 December 14 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 November 8 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 October 13 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 September 15 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 July 20 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 June 23 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 May 20 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 April 22 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2021 March 8 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 December 15 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 October 19-20, 22 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 September 1 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 July 2 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 May 11 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 April 29 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 March 30-31 March and April 1 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2020 February 27 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2019 December 12 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2019 October 19-21 (Santiago de Chile)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2019 September 25 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2019 July 10 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2019 April 4-5 (Krakow)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2019 January 19-20 (London)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2018 December 18 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2018 September 13-15 (Edinburgh)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2018 June 13 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2018 March 19, 22-23 (Lisbon)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2017 December 12 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2017 September 10-12 (Cape Town)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2017 June 29 (Teleconference)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2017 April 5 and 7 (Geneva)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2016 December 05 (Teleconference)Minutes 
2016 October 20-22 (Seoul)MinutesAgenda and open access papers
2016 June 29 (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2016 April 7 and 8 (London)Minutes and open access papers
2016 January 16 and 17 (Vancouver)Minutes and open access papers
2015 October 02 and 08 (Vienna)Minutes and open access papers
2015 May 04 and 07 (Athens)Minutes and open access papers 
2014 December (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2014 November (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2014 September (Hyderabad)Minutes and open access papers
2014 August (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2014 May (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2014 30 March 02 April (Panama)Minutes and open access papers
2014 January (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2013 December (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2013 September (Québec)Minutes and open access papers
2013 July (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2013 June (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2013 March (Oxford)Minutes and open access papers
2013 February (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2012 November (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2012 October (Auckland)Minutes and open access papers
2012 July (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2012 May (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2012 April (Paris)Minutes and open access papers
2012 February (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2011 November (Teleconference)Minutes and open access papers
2011 October (Madrid)Minutes and open access papers
2011 April (Split)Minutes and open access papers
2010 October (Keystone)Minutes and open access papers
2010 March (Auckland)Minutes and open access papers
2009 Oct 10 and 15 (Singapore)Minutes and open access papers
2009 Apr 24-26 (Copenhagen)Minutes and open access papers
2008 Oct 2 and 6 (Freiburg)Minutes
2008 Apr 11-13 (Vellore)Minutes
2007 Oct 22 and 25 (São Paulo)Minutes
2007Apr 20-22 (Amsterdam)Minutes
2006 Oct 22 and 26 (Dublin)Minutes
2006 Apr 24-26 (Khon Kaen)Minutes
2005 Oct 21 and 24 (Melbourne)Minutes
2005 Apr 2-4 (Providence)Minutes
2004 Oct 1 and 4 (Ottawa)Minutes
2004 Feb 29 and Mar 1, 2 (Bergamo)Minutes
2003 Oct 25, 29, 30 (Barcelona)Minutes
2003 Mar 31 (Melbourne)Minutes
2002 Jul 31 and Aug 3 (Stavanger)Minutes
2002 Apr 11-12 (Chengdu)Minutes
2001 Oct 8, 13 (Lyon)Minutes
2001 Feb 18-19 (São Paulo)Minutes
2000 Oct 24, 29 (Cape Town)Minutes   
2000 Mar 5-6 (San Antonio)Minutes
1999 Oct 5-9 (Rome)Minutes
1999 Mar 14-15 (Freiburg)Minutes
1998 Oct 20-25 (Baltimore)Minutes
1998 Feb 16-17 (Cape Town)Minutes
1997 Oct 10 (Amsterdam)Minutes
1997 Mar 3 (San Francisco)Minutes
1996 Oct 19 (Adelaide)Minutes
1996 Aug 19 (Oslo)Minutes
1996 Feb 26 (San Francisco)Minutes
1995 Oct 9 (Oslo)Minutes