This web clinic will provide a brief background to living systematic reviews, including how to decide whether they are appropriate to your research question.

It will then focus more substantively on LSR-specific methods, including the available resources and technology enablers to support their implementation.

Presenter Bios

Professor Tari Turner is Director of the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration, leading development of living guidelines, and a Professor (Research) at Cochrane Australia. Prof Turner leads research developing and evaluating innovative methods for evidence synthesis, including living systematic reviews and living guidelines & novel methods for assessment of pre-clinical evidence in vaccine development; and translating synthesised evidence into improved healthcare practice and policy. Tari’s passion is supporting evidence-based decision-making to ensure the best possible outcomes, particularly for women and children in low resource settings. She enjoys designing, finding, synthesising and communicating research, and she loves seeing research actually make a difference.

Dr Rebecca Hodder is an NHMRC Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle, Methods Editor and Research Associate at Cochrane Public Health, and Deputy Director of the Population Health Research Program at Hunter Medical Research Institute. Dr Hodder has considerable living evidence experience, having successfully led the first Cochrane living systematic review which tested Cochrane Collaboration ‘next generation’ evidence workflows and is drafting the first Cochrane handbook chapter on living systematic reviews. Dr Hodder has considerable experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of large-scale chronic disease prevention programs in community settings and leads a program of research embedded within the National Centre of Implementation Science investigating the effectiveness and implementation of school-based chronic disease prevention programs, and evidence synthesis.

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Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 09:00 UTC [check the time in your timezone] SIGN UP HERE

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