3.4.3.6 Promoting the aims and work of The Cochrane Collaboration within the Field

Fields promote the aims and work of The Cochrane Collaboration by:

• organising meetings or making presentations at key conferences
• submitting articles about The Cochrane Collaboration and the work of the Cochrane Field to leading journals in their area of health care. [For a good example of this, see Jefferson T. Vaccine trial data systematically assembled, pooled and disseminated by The Cochrane Collaboration. Vaccine 1998; 16:1487-1495]
• using the auspices of organisations in their area of health care to promote the works of The Cochrane Collaboration through meetings or newsletters (e.g. the Primary Health Care Field’s regular column in ‘WONCA News’, the newsletter of the World Organisation of National Colleges and Assemblies of Family Medicine)
• disseminating notices of Cochrane protocols and reviews and news of Cochrane activities through its own newsletter or website
• maintaining links with individuals and organisations on its contacts database