Cochrane is delighted to announce the introduction of a new, freely available set of learning resources for Knowledge Translation in Cochrane.

Launched as part of training.cochrane.org, these resources will provide anyone working as part of Cochrane with an introduction to Knowledge Translation (KT), its key themes and KT audiences.  They provide a range learning materials focused on our ongoing implementation activities, illustrated with case-studies from across Cochrane’s community.

Cochrane defines Knowledge Translation (KT) as the process of ensuring that health evidence from our high quality, trusted Cochrane systematic reviews is used by those who need it to make health decisions.

Producing high-quality systematic reviews is essential but not enough! To inform decisions and lead to the better health Cochrane needs to make sure our evidence is used.

All resources are freely available through new curated collections:

• Introducing knowledge translation in Cochrane
• Disseminating Cochrane evidence
• Priority setting
• Meaningful partnerships
• Improving the uptake of Cochrane evidence
• Knowledge Translation in multi-languages
   

Strategy to 2020 is Cochrane’s strategic plan. It aims to put Cochrane evidence at the heart of health decision-making all over the world.

Learn about the organisation’s achievements in delivering the Strategy so far this year in:

• The Mid-Year Targets Report
• Quarter 2 Organisational Dashboard

The agenda for the Cochrane Council meeting to be held in Edinburgh on 17 September 2018 are now available to view online.

The Council aims to ensure that Cochrane Groups retain an effective voice in Cochrane’s leadership and strategic decision-making. The purpose of the Council is to provide:

• A forum for Cochrane Groups to consider high-level matters affecting Cochrane as a whole;
• A mechanism to raise matters and provide input to the Governing Board on behalf of Cochrane’s communities Groups; and
• A forum to consider matters at the request of the Board and inform Board deliberations.

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Dear Cochrane Members,
 
It is our pleasure to invite you to attend Cochrane's 2018 Annual General Meeting:
 
DATE: Monday 17 September 2018
TIME: 16:00-17:30 BST
LOCATION: Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Scotland, UK - at the 25th Cochrane Colloquium
 
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is an opportunity for Cochrane's Trustees - its Governing Board - and senior officers to tell Members about the management of the charity. It also provides you with an opportunity to ask questions and vote on a number of issues (“Resolutions”) affecting the organization.
 
All Cochrane Members as defined by the Membership Terms & Conditions are entitled to vote on AGM Resolutions. You are entitled to vote even if you are not attending the meeting. To find out more, and to cast your votes, please visit agm.cochrane.org.
 
With very best wishes,
 
Martin Burton
Governing Board Co-Chair
 
Cindy Farquhar
Governing Board Co-Chair
 
Marguerite Koster
Governing Board Co-Chair from 1 September 2018
 

Cochrane is pleased to announce plans to establish a new, open and collaborative Network within China.

A group of interested stakeholders have been invited to a two-day strategic planning meeting to be held on 9-10 October in Beijing (hosted by the Peking University Health Science Center), to discuss the strategic direction and the establishment of a Cochrane China Network. 

The Cochrane China Network primary functions will be around ensuring that Cochrane’s evidence is increasingly used in policy and practice inside China; supporting the Cochrane community of volunteers (authors, methodologists, editors) in China; and promoting and representing Cochrane in the country.

This initiative involves the current Cochrane China Centre in Chengdu, as well as the new leadership of the Cochrane Hong Kong Affiliate. It is expected that a formal launch of Cochrane’s China Network will take place in early 2019.

For more information of Cochrane’s China Network, and sharing suggestions and information that promote Cochrane’s work across China, please contact Sylvia de Haan, Senior Advisor (Centres, Partnerships and Fundraising), Cochrane.

Additional resource:

• Structures and Functions of Cochrane Geographically oriented structures

During the Cochrane Governing Board meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, last March, the establishment of the Cochrane Mexico Centre was approved. This Centre, part of the Cochrane Iberoamerican Network, will have more autonomy to promote Cochrane activities in Mexico. 

The Mexican Cochrane Centre consists of five Associated Centres located at Culiacán (Sinaloa's Pediatric Hospital), Guadalajara (University of Guadalajara), Mexico City (Mexico's Children Hospital Federico Gómez and Clínica Médica Sur Foundation) and Cuernavaca (National Institute of Public Health).

To celebrate this achievement, Cochrane Mexico is organizing a National Symposium on August 30 and 31, in Mexico City. The event is preceded by a series of pre-symposium workshops (see for further details lanzamiento de Cochrane Mexico).

The launch of Cochrane Mexico coincides with the launch of the new Cochrane Library online platform. Our online platform has been redesigned and enhanced to improve user experience and functionality. It includes several features that will improve the user experience for people whose preferred language is not English, including improved visibility of non-English content, a new Spanish language homepage, and the ability to search in different languages.

To learn more about the Cochrane Library and how to use the new site, see the Cochrane Library Training page (available in Spanish).

For further information, please contact,
Giordano Pérez-Gaxiola
Director, Cochrane Mexico

Cochrane is pleased to announce that the Cochrane Library, which provides high-quality, independently produced evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, has been redesigned and enhanced to improve user experience and functionality.

Cochrane is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health. Cochrane contributors and groups produce high-quality systematic reviews, which collate and summarize the best available evidence on the effects of interventions, to inform decisions about health. Cochrane Reviews are recognized internationally as representing a gold standard for high-quality, trusted information, and are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, one of the databases within the Cochrane Library.

The new online platform, designed in collaboration with Cochrane’s publisher Wiley and built by the technology platform provider HighWire, includes several features that will improve the user experience for people whose preferred language is not English, including improved visibility of non-English content, a new Spanish language homepage, and the ability to search in different languages. The new Cochrane Library also delivers a series of improved design features and functionality and allows users to search across varying content types, including Cochrane Reviews and Protocols, CENTRAL trials reports, Cochrane Clinical Answers, Editorials, Special Collections, and other systematic reviews from Epistemonikos, a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence.

Cochrane’s Editor in Chief, David Tovey warmly welcomed today’s launch: “I am delighted to see the launch of our newly designed Cochrane Library today. This complex project has been all about improving user experience; we have ambitious plans for future development of the Cochrane Library and these can only be delivered by this move to a new and more flexible platform. With this launch, users will immediately notice a richer experience, but we see this is as merely the start of our journey.”

Wiley’s Editorial Director, Deborah Pentesco-Murphy added: “We are delighted that Wiley are able to offer Cochrane’s gold standard Evidence, including the Cochrane Clinical Answers Database, on a new multi-lingual platform, including a Spanish interface, to serve our global audience of users better and with an improved ability to quickly locate relevant information to make informed health decisions. ”

HighWire CEO, Dan Filby, said, “The Cochrane Library is globally recognized for publishing world leading research. We are proud to deliver a user experience for Cochrane that reflects the high quality of content; improving discoverability to help users in their research.”

• Visit the Cochrane Library
• Learn more about the Cochrane Library and how to use the new site
• Read this Press Release in Spanish

For further information or to arrange an interview, please contact,
Jo Anthony
T +44 207 183 7503
E pressoffice@cochrane.org

About Cochrane Reviews
Cochrane Reviews are systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and health policy, and are internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence-based health care. Cochrane Systematic Reviews investigate the effects of interventions for disease prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. They also assess the accuracy of a diagnostic test for a given condition in a specific patient group and setting.  Cochrane Library is published by Wiley.

About Wiley
Wiley, a global research and learning company, helps people and organizations develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Our online scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, combined with our digital learning, assessment and certification solutions help universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and individuals increase the academic and professional impact of their work. For more than 210 years, we have delivered consistent performance to our stakeholders. The company's website can be accessed at www.wiley.com.

About HighWire
HighWire is the technology partner of choice for world-leading commercial and academic publishers. With offices globally, HighWire provides digital publishing solutions and platform expertise across all aspects of the publishing life cycle, including content management and hosting, e-commerce, analytics, access and identity management, manuscript submission and tracking. HighWire also delivers strategic consulting services for system and application development, and improving the customer experience.

Dear Cochrane Members,

Thank you for voting in the recent Cochrane elections!

We are delighted to announce the results:

• Nicky Cullum has been elected as a member of the Governing Board. Nicky is Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Wounds Group and is based in Manchester, UK
• Agustín Ciapponi has been elected as an Author representative on the Cochrane Council. Agustín is an author on over 20 Cochrane Reviews and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina

If you’re attending the forthcoming Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh, 16-18 September, you’re invited to attend the Annual General Meeting on 17 September, and meet the members of the Board and Council. More information about the AGM will be sent to you soon.

Thank you to all the candidates who stood in these elections. The vote count for the Board election is available at elections.cochrane.org and for the Council election upon request by email to elections@cochrane.org.

Learn more about the Governing Board and Council on the Cochrane Community website.

Cochrane is pleased to announce plans to establish a new, open and collaborative Network within the US.

An internal review of Cochrane’s structures carried out in 2016 highlighted that a single Center approach for a country the size of the US has many limitations, and that a Network of multiple groups based across the country is a better model to deliver a wider range and expanded scale of Cochrane activities, share collaboration across and between institutions, and create greater impact of that work in diverse regions and different contexts.

There is a sophisticated and well-developed health evidence landscape in the US, and while Cochrane evidence is well known and widely respected, we believe we can do more and better. The Cochrane US Network primary functions will be around ensuring that Cochrane’s evidence is increasingly used in policy and practice inside the US; supporting the Cochrane community of volunteers (authors, methodologists, editors) in the US; and promoting and representing Cochrane in the country.

In the coming months, we will consult widely with a range of stakeholders to develop the strategy and focus of this new Cochrane Network:

This will include:

• An open meeting to be held during the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh, on Tuesday 18th September, from 07.30-08.45;
• A two-day strategic planning meeting (by invitation) to be held on 29th-30th October in Fort Worth, Texas.

Following these consultative meetings, a call for ‘Expressions of Interest’ will be issued that allows institutions in the US to express their interest to become a member of the Cochrane US Network.

The responsibility for leading the establishment of the new Cochrane US Network is being taken by Cochrane’s Chief Executive Office, but the process is advised and fully supported by the existing Cochrane US West Associate Centre based at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU, Portland, Oregon), and the consultation meeting in October is to be hosted by the Texas Christian University.

It is expected that a formal launch of Cochrane’s US Network will take place in early 2019.

For more information of Cochrane’s US Network, and sharing suggestions and information that promote Cochrane’s work across the US, please contact Sylvia de Haan, Senior Advisor (Centres, Partnerships and Fundraising), Cochrane.

Additional resource:

• Structures and Functions of Cochrane Geographically oriented structures