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Assistant TSC - Injuries Group - London, UK
The Cochrane Injuries Group is seeking an Assistant Trials Search Co-ordinator.For a complete job description and information on how to apply, please send an email to the contact listed below.
posted on: 10 Feb 2012 - 18:18
CCNet announces elections for the Consumers' Executive
CCNet will be conducting elections for the Consumers' Executive in 2012. There are two positions up for re-election:the non-English Language representative and the developing countries representative. Full details of the election process will be sent to consumers@lists.cochrane.org, so...
posted on: 10 Feb 2012 - 18:08
Take part in a survey on the future of the Cochrane Library
Cochrane contributors and users of the Cochrane Library are invited to complete a survey about developing the content of The Cochrane Library.
posted on: 9 Feb 2012 - 03:56
IMS Team Manager - Nordic Cochrane Centre - Copenhagen, Denmark
We announced this position (previously IMS Director) in November 2011 and did not find a candidate with the right combination of qualifications.
posted on: 6 Feb 2012 - 12:43
CDSR/ABOUT/CSR submission deadline for Issue 5 (2012) is 19 April 2012
This is the deadline for Managing Editors to submit their Group’s articles for CDSR.Complete schedule of the Publication Dates & Deadlines 2012 for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), CRS/Central and About databases.
posted on: 2 Feb 2012 - 12:30

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
Cochrane Canada Live webinar series - February 2012
Registration is open to all (unless otherwise stated) and free of charge. Broadcasting times correspond to local times in Ottawa, Canada.Meet the Methods Group:  An introduction to the Cochrane Priority and Agenda Setting Methods Group
posted on: 2 Feb 2012 - 17:19

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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