Hello and welcome to our fist newsletter of 2020, designed to keep you up to date with news and information from PaPaS.
We hope this will be of interest to you as an author, editor, peer reviewer or someone who is keen to learn more about the work of the Cochrane PaPaS Group. You can easily unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of this page should you wish to.
PaPaS News
A belated happy new year to all our contributors. We have had a positive and busy start to 2020, as you will see below. We are currently working on several priority reviews and external grants which we will disseminate in due course; in the meantime, we would like to thank our author teams for their patience in the event that these competing priorities have an impact on the timeliness of your review process. If you would like a progress update for your review, you are free to contact me at any time. I look forward to sharing more of our positive news later in the year.
Anna Erskine (Managing Editor)
New Joint Co-ordinating Editor: Dr Neil O'Connell
We are delighted to introduce Dr Neil O'Connell as our new Joint Co-ordinating Editor. Neil will be working alongside our current Co-ordinating Editor, Professor Christopher Eccleston.
In January 2020, Professor Phil Wiffen stepped down as a senior editor for PaPaS. Phil was instrumental in establishing our review group back in 1998, and he was our inaugural Co-ordinating Editor. Since 2012, Phil has been a senior editor providing support and guidance to the team, as well as invaluable support for our authors. The true extent of his contributions to PaPaS is immeasurable, and we remain incredibly grateful that he was such a huge part of our history and success. We wish Phil the best of luck with his future projects.
New Editorial Board Member: Dr Hopin Lee
We are delighted to welcome Dr Hopin Lee to our Editorial Board.
Dr Hopin Lee is an NHMRC postdoctoral research fellow based at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Rehabilitation Research in Oxford at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford.
Cochrane November - December 2020: Highlights from Q4
November to December 2019 was a busy quarter for Cochrane. See some highlights of the final quarter of the year here.
Karla Soares-Weiser, Editor in Chief of the Cochrane Library
Learn more about Karla's story and her journey through Cochrane since 1995 in this video.
Update: Conflict of Interest Policy
A more rigorous conflict of interest policy is coming for Cochrane. Karla Soares-Weiser, Cochrane Library’s Editor in Chief, outlined a new conflict of interest policy that is forthcoming in 2020 in a BMJ opinion piece.
Four systematic review courses in 2020 in Utrecht, The Netherlands
In 2020 Cochrane Netherlands has organised four courses regarding systematic reviews.
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of intervention studies: 8-9 June, 2020
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies: 15-17 June, 2020
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of prognosis studies: 7-9 September, 2020
Meta-analysis of individual participant data (IPD) from intervention studies: 10-11 September, 2020
All courses will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Wiley have recently launched a 20% discount promotion for the new Handbook for Cochrane authors and editorial teams. To save 20% on the Cochrane Handbook, please use the discount code CHSR2 at the checkout at wiley.com before 30th April 2020.
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