Research Assistant (Malaria Vector Control and Elimination) x2The World Health Organization (WHO) intends to expand guidelines development based on systematic reviews and GRADE to malaria vector control. The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group has contributed to WHO guidelines in malaria chemotherapy and will now extend this to synthesis for vector control.

In the sixth instalment of our 'Meet the Editor' series, we interview Dr Lawrence Mbuagbaw.Could you describe where you currently work and what you do there?

From July 28 to August 17 2016, Dr Patricia Graves visited the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) editorial base as a Visiting Fellow. Dr Graves is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. She is a specialist in the epidemiology of malaria, filariasis, and other vector-borne diseases, and has extensive experience in applied research and consulting in the Pacific, Africa, and Asia.

Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group contributors: update from your Editorial Base9 September 2016Dear HIV/AIDS Cochrane Group contributors

Welcome to our first report in the CIDG 'Meet the Author' series. This month we talk with CIDG review author Mwaka Athuman, who is based at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania. 

In July 2016, Dr Rie Roselyne Yotsu was a visiting fellow to the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) editorial base in Liverpool. In this report, she discusses the objectives and results of her visit.Home institution (including department)

Symposium: Methods for evaluating medical tests and biomarkers, hosted by the Test Evaluation Research Group, University of Birmingham, UK, 19th and 20th July 2016In this blog post, CIDG Editor 

In the fifth instalment of our 'Meet the Editor' series, we interview Dr Karen Steingart.Public health physician, methodologist, mentor, constant learner, humanistCould you describe where you currently work and what you do there? 

Professor Paul Garner from LSTM’s Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health has led the development of new guidance on updating systematic reviews which has been