Cochrane seeks Managing Director of Cochrane Canada - Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Cochrane Canada is the Canadian arm of Cochrane, an independent global network of over 30,000 healthcare practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, working to translate systematically reviewed evidence into useful information for health care decision making. The Managing Director is a high profile position for McMaster University. This role will represent McMaster in the global health sciences community and will be pivotal to advancing the aims of Cochrane Canada and, by extension, the global Cochrane network.The Cochrane Canada Centre at McMaster will lead research on improving the systematic review process and the methodology of integrating different types of evidence and knowledge for optimal knowledge translation to health care and policy.Specifically, as one of 17 Cochrane Regional Centres worldwide, the Cochrane Canada Centre at McMaster promotes evidence-based health care by:Acting as the central point of contact for Cochrane within CanadaPromoting awareness, access and use of its main product, Cochrane ReviewsDeveloping working relationships with relevant organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, in Canada to promote evidence-based health careCoordinating training activities across Canada on how to use and write systematic reviewsSupporting Cochrane Review Groups located in Canada, andImplementing the findings of systematic reviewsLeading research on integrating different types of evidence in evidence synthesesCochrane ’s mission is to pr...
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