Geographical Group Reporting Submission

Group Cochrane Malaysia

Name May Loong Tan

Activity name / title Volunteer Translator Meet Up

Which function does this relate to?

Tier one Promote Cochrane and its work

Tier two N/A

Tier three N/A

Tier four Increase access of Cochrane evidence in different languages

Evidence production N/A

Date

Start date 08-11-2024

Proposed end date 09-11-2024

on-going No

Was this activity in collaboration with other organization(s) or partner(s)? If so which? Yes

Name of the organization(s) or partner(s) School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Person to contact if any queries about this activity Nila Pillai
cochrane@rumc.edu.my

Type of activity Language translations

Please give additional activity details (i.e., reach, impact, duration, return on investment) Annual meeting with volunteer translators. A/Prof Dr Haslina Haroon from Department of Translation Studies, School of Humanities, USM gave a talk on translations to the participants.
This meeting also gave opportunity for translators to know each other and brainstorm ideas to improve quality of translations.

Link and documents

By checking this box, my center consents to the use of these photos for Cochrane internal and external purposes, such as websites, reports, social media, etc. Yes