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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

Details below on the latest submission to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 8, 2018 from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (reviews and protocols published 1 - 31 August).Two new reviews

In one-fifth of people with active tuberculosis (TB), the site of disease is outside the lungs (extrapulmonary TB). Some forms of extrapulmonary TB, such as TB meningitis, are extremely dangerous, where a rapid diagnosis can make all the difference to a patient.

LSTM’s department of Clinical Sciences has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Research Associate to join the team working as part of the “Research, Evidence and Development Initiative” (READ-It).

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.