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Submit consumer stories for Wise Consumer Health Month
 February is Wise Consumer Health Month. In an effort to help members of CCNet become better healthcare consumers, the Cochrane Consumer Blog is running weekly 'Consumer Stories' written by CCNet members. For the entire month of February, all blog postings will be in honour of CCNet's...
posted on: 26 Jan 2012 - 10:52
Executives Support Officer - location flexible
Executives Support Officer, Cochrane Editorial Unit 
posted on: 25 Jan 2012 - 15:45
Cochrane Canada releases 2010-2011 Annual Report
Cochrane Canada is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report for the 2010-2011 reporting year, including updates from the Canadian Cochrane Centre, six Review Groups, one Field, and two Methods Groups. Each entity provides an update on its work and participation in workshops and training...
posted on: 17 Jan 2012 - 17:54
New descriptive analysis of more than 22,000 Cochrane meta-analyses published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
A new descriptive analysis of more than 22,000 meta-analyses within Cochrane Reviews has just been published in an open access article in BMC Medical Research Methodology.
posted on: 17 Jan 2012 - 14:00
Cochrane Summaries website wins plain language award
Only recently launched, the Cochrane Summaries website (summaries.cochrane.org) has received global attention, which reached a pinnacle when The Cochrane Collaboration was awarded the runner-up trophy for the best public website by the Plain English Campaign, which has been “fighting for...
posted on: 11 Jan 2012 - 19:32

Latest Events

Flexible learning: EPPI-Centre Masters-level courses can now be taken completely online
Two new, fully online, modules are now available for the MSc in Research for public policy and practice (launched in 2005, as Evidence for Public Policy and Practice). It is now possible to study for the MSc entirely at a venue of your own choice, at a distance from the EPPI-...
posted on: 15 Jul 2011 - 14:19
Five Online R and PLS Courses
October 2011 - January 2012Faculty from Virginia Commonwealth University and the non-profit Georgia R School (georgia-r-school.org) are conducting five different, live, online, interactive, synchronous five-week-long courses on: (1) *Fundamentals of using R*: i)11AM-2PM ET Oct 18-Nov 15; ii) 6PM-...
posted on: 26 Oct 2011 - 12:07
Participative Research and Policy - an online course about service users and others doing and using research together
Participative Research and Policy (few places remaining)
posted on: 14 Oct 2011 - 17:00
Mentored Training: Systematic Reviews in Health Care - Vancouver, Canada
February - July 2012, 1 day per monthThe Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (C2E2) is pleased to offer a six month mentored training course on systematic reviews. This course is intended for clinicians, researchers, health care professionals, graduate students, decision makers, and...
posted on: 9 Nov 2011 - 10:07
HERU Workshop: Methods of Clinical Trials - Cairo, Egypt
Health Research Unit, Ain Shams UniversityCairo, Egypt25 February 2012
posted on: 25 Jan 2012 - 10:43

Latest Blog Entries

To all my friends and… fellow travellers
Professor Alessandro Liberati, D
All terms: Authors, Centres, Cochrane contributors, Evidence-based health care, Fields, Methods groups, Review groups
Improvements in abstracts and plain language summaries needed
Maryann Napoli, Associate Director of the Center for Medical Consumers (New York City), is a member of CCNet’s Geographic Advisory Group as well as the US Cochrane Center’s consumer coalition, Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare.
Comments: 2
All terms: Cochrane contributors, Cochrane Reviews, Consumer Network, Evidence-based health care
Mammography screening ten years on: reflections on a decade since the 2001 review
Peter Gøtzsche, Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, is one of the authors of the landmark 2001 Cochrane systematic review ‘Screening for breast cancer with mammography’. Ten years on from first publication, he reflects on the review’s impact on healthcare policy and practice.
Comments: 1
All terms: Cochrane Library, Cochrane Reviews, Evidence-based health care
Engagement . . . education . . . empowerment . . . action: The ALOIS Community: Involving caregiver volunteers in research and evidence in dementia
Engagement The Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive improvement Review Group is running a year-long public engagement project, funded by the National Institute of Health Research. The grant was awarded to test the innovative idea of recruiting carers (and former carers) of people with dementia to...
All terms: Consumer Network, Funding & Partnerships, Training
Enabling remote participation at Cochrane meetings: some reflections
Lucie Jones is Project Support and Business Communications Officer at the Collaboration’s Secretariat, and is based at the German Cochrane Centre in Freiburg, Germany Over the past couple of years, as part of my business communications role, I have been asked to provide and run remote conferencing...
Comments: 2
All terms: Colloquium, Conferences & Meetings, Websites & IT

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