The South Asian Cochrane Network & Centre

Celebrating five years of the South Asian Cochrane Network

(Jan 2005-Jan 2010)

The South Asian Cochrane Centre is located in India at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The Centre is hosted at the Prof. B V Moses and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Advanced Centre for Research and Training in Evidence-Informed Healthcare in the Bagayam campus of CMC Vellore. The South Asian Cochrane Centre is an independent Centre of The Cochrane Collaboration.

The Centre is also part of the South Asian Cochrane Network, a devolved network of sites situated at academic health-sciences institutions in India (5), Pakistan (2), Bangladesh (1), and Sri Lanka (1). Each site contributes to and supports the activities of the Network. Read more...

Workshops

Introduction to Evidence-Informed Healthcare: February 8, 2010

Christian Medical College, Vellore (and via Tele-link with KEM Hospital, Mumbai)

This one-day workshop will introduce participants to the concepts and practice of using reliable, relevant and up to date evidence in informing health decisions and clinical practice. Participants will be introduced to the role of systematic reviews and meta-analysis as a key component in health decision making and acquire critical appraisal skills in evaluating systematic reviews, meta-analysis and randomized controlled trials. They will also be introduced to the work of the Cochrane Collaboration and The Cochrane Library.

This workshop is a stand-alone workshop for those who wish to know more about systematic reviews and evidence-informed healthcare but are not planning to undertake a systematic review. It will also form day one of the Protocol development workshop that will follow from February 8-12 for those who wish to develop a protocol for a Cochrane Systematic Review, particularly for those with titles for such reviews registered with the Cochrane Collaboration.

Winter Symposium

8th Winter Symposium of the Christian Medical College, Vellore and 3rd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence-Informed Healthcare

The South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre thanks all resource persons, session chairs and facilitators, participants, funders and those who helped make the 8th Winter Symposium of the Christian Medical College and the 3rd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence Informed Healthcare (January 11-14, 2010) such a resounding success. We hope to make the video recordings of the plenary and keynote sessions and slides from the workshops available as podcasts on this site as soon as possible. We also hope to make available DVD copies of these shortly. The Beginner's Guide to EBM series will be converted to an online course, though this might take a bit longer.

Evidence Aid

Cochrane Evidence Aid: resources for Haiti earthquake

For a selection of systematic reviews from The Cochrane Library on healthcare topics that our colleagues in aid agencies have reported as important