Dr Praveen Weeratunga is a Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.  From 19-29 November 2018, the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) editorial base welcomed Dr Weeratunga as a visiting fellow. In this report he provides an insight into his involvement with the CIDG and his time at the CIDG editorial base in Liverpool.

Involving patients and the public for better evidence synthesis 

Researchers from LSTM have confirmed that using pyrethroid-PBO treated nets to prevent malaria is more effective at killing mosquitoes in areas where there is a high level of resistance to pyrethroids. The distribution of nets treated with pyrethroid insecticides has been very effective in reducing malaria transmission during the past two decades in Africa.

Details below on the latest submission to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 11, 2018 from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (reviews and protocols published 1 – 30 November).

Voting is now open for the current Governing Board election.

The Cochrane Review Network communities announce their strategic plans that will guide the work of our Cochrane Review Groups (CRGS) until 2020

Marty worked as an Associate Statistician & Research Assistant with the CIDG until April 2024. She continues to collaborate with the CIDG as a CIDG Editor.  We talk with Marty Chaplin (nee Richardson), Associate Statistician & Research Assistant with CIDG. 

Details below on the latest submission to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 9, 2018 from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (reviews and protocols published 1 – 30 September).One review update

Founded in 1898 and the oldest of its kind in the world, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for teaching and research in tropical diseases. LSTM’s Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health has led developments in systematic reviews in tropical medicine and international health. In the 1990s, staff contributed to setting up Cochrane, and established the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG).

The Department of Clinical Sciences has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Research Associate to join the team on a part time basis in the Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health