Geographical Group Reporting Submission

Group Cochrane Madrid (IRYCIS/Universidad Francisco de Vitoria)

Name Jesús Lopez-Alcalde

Activity name / title Oral presentation: Evidence synthesis in pandemic times to inform global guidance: WHO HQ Rapid Review Group experiences

Which function does this relate to?

Tier one N/A

Tier two N/A

Tier three Undertake / contribute to methodological or other research

Tier four N/A

Evidence production Other review and evidence production

Date

Start date 10-09-2024

Proposed end date 10-09-2024

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) WHO Rapid Review Group

Person to contact if any queries about this activity Jesus Lopez-Alcalde
cochrane.madrid@ufv.es

Type of activity Conferences or professional development (organized or attended)

Please give additional activity details (i.e., reach, impact, duration, return on investment) The World Health Organization (WHO) does not have a dedicated within house evidence-synthesis service. The Rapid Review Group (RRG) was formed within the WHO Science Division in March 2020 to support WHO Technical Units responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We report on challenges, innovations, and lessons learned by this group.

Link and documents

Link Global Evidence Summit

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. No