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Cochrane Collaboration makes inroads on best evidence for slum upgrading
Increasing the number of reviews relevant to global health is an important goal of the Collaboration. It relates to our capacity to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals; the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health; to frame questions of importance to developing country...
All terms: Funding & Partnerships, Review groups
Reviews for Africa Programme: What 5 years of RAPping did for Africa
In 2005, the South African Cochrane Centre (SACC), in collaboration with the Cochrane Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Review Groups, began the Reviews for Africa Programme (RAP), funded by the Nuffield Commonwealth Programme. The aim of the programme is to provide training and support to...
All terms: Centres, Low and middle income countries, Review groups
Cochrane gets ultimate 'Shout Out' in Newsweek
Newsweekʹs Senior Science Writer, Sharon Begley, describes the important work The Cochrane Collaboration is doing in A Science Fact Check. As she writes, “Really, with more than 2,000 such reviews on everything from the common cold to cancer already completed, Cochrane has shown that comparative‐...
All terms: Cochrane Reviews, Media coverage
The Cochrane Author Survey
The aim of this survey was to better understand the review process from the authors’ perspective to identify strategies which could improve the process for authors and Cochrane Review Groups. The objectives were to identify: problems and barriers for authors of Cochrane reviews and protocols,...
All terms: Authors
Understanding The Cochrane Collaboration
Catriona Bourne Swinton Hunter has just finished her secondary education at Tudor Hall, a school in Banbury, England. She spent a week at the Secretariat in Oxford, UK, in late June working on various projects, including updating the Collaboration’s introductory leaflets and analysing the...
All terms: Operations Unit

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