Cochrane expresses thanks to Professor Prathap Tharyan for leading Cochrane South Asia for over 14 years

After leading Cochrane South Asia since 2005, first as a Branch of the Australasian Cochrane Centre, and from 2008 as a standalone Cochrane South Asia Centre, Professor Prathap Tharyan is retiring from his role as Director.Under Prathap ’s leadership, Cochrane South Asia, based at the Prof BV Moses Centre for Evidence Informed Health Care and Health Policy at CMC, Vellore, has contributed enormously to Cochrane ' s global efforts to increase the uptake of reliable evidence to inform health decisions. In the early years of the Centre, Prathap organized several very successful annual conferences on evidence-based health care at CMC Vellore, drawing delegates from around the region to hear from internationally renowned experts. In 2014, the Cochrane South Asia Centre, also hosted Cochrane ’s annual Colloquium in Hyderabad, bringing the international Cochrane community to India. Prathap has also been instrumental in working with the Indian Council of Medical Research to ensure a national subscription to the Cochrane Library from 2007-2015, which has since then been taken over by the National Library of Medicine. Prathap ’s research interests are wide, covering issues involving the ethics of clinical trials in India (as protection against commercially-focused research organizations) and promoting the conduct of pragmatic trials – reflecting a concern that research should benefit those who volunteer as participan ts and the wider community they come from. Through his invol...
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