The CIDG aims to impact on policy and research in tropical diseases through the production of high quality, relevant, systematic reviews, and to lead developments in review quality improvement and effective dissemination of findings. Our reviews have impacted on guidance in malaria, HIV care delivery, TB diagnostic tests, typhoid vaccines, Crimea-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, and health systems, and have led the methodological advances in qualitative syntheses used in guidance development.

At the CIDG editorial base we are committed to creating a positive working environment by recruiting and developing excellent staff. We work to ensure equality, diversity, and inclusion across the organization; to develop the leadership and management capabilities of our staff; and to actively support staff engagement and well-being.

It’s an exciting and dynamic group of people who work at the CIDG editorial base, and you can read more below about some of our team members:

	Rachael Milligan is a medical doctor who joined the CIDG editorial base in August 2016. She completed her initial medical ... read more
	Sam Johnson is a medical doctor and joined the CIDG editorial base in January 2017. He came to Liverpool, ....read more
	Leslie Choi joined LSTM in February 2017, working with the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) to produce new reviews and update .... read more
	Joe Pryce  joined the CIDG in February 2017, working on several novel and updating existing systematic reviews that assess the impacts .... read more
	Cara Macfarlane is a Research Assistant in Neglected Tropical Diseases Evidence Synthesis, working with CIDG in the Department of Clinical Sciences. .... read more
	Paul Hine  is a registrar in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine training in the Mersey Deanery. He has taken time .... read more
	Harriet Blundell began working at the CIDG editorial base in October 2017, and is a medical doctor with an interest in .... read more

The CIDG editorial base is located at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, UK. The CIDG is led by Professor Paul Garner (Co-ordinating Editor) and Deirdre Walshe (Managing Editor). Over 600 authors from some 52 countries contribute to the preparation of the Cochrane Reviews. They are supported by an international team of Editors, each with topic or methodological expertise. 

The CIDG’s main areas of work are on determination of the effects of interventions on the prevention or treatment infectious diseases of relevance to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, particularly malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and neglected tropical diseases. The aims of the CIDG are to impact on policy and research in tropical diseases through the production of high quality and relevant systematic reviews, and to lead developments in review quality improvement and effective dissemination of findings.