Interest-holders have a vital stake in health guidelines. A new extension to the G-I-N McMaster Checklist shows how to engage them meaningfully—boosting transparency, inclusivity, and trust.

📖 To read more, click here: 👉 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology: www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

🧭 For guideline developers: Want to strengthen equity in your guideline development process? There is a new extension to the Guideline Development Checklist which adds 23 equity-focused items to help integrate health equity from start to finish.

📖 Read more: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Patient and public voices strengthen clinical guidelines. 👥📘

Guyane Beaulieu shares her experience as a patient/public member working with Cochrane Canada and INGUIDE. 💬🤝

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Health care decisions are stronger when we collaborate with patients and people with lived experience. Dr. Robby Nieuwlaat, Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Cochrane Canada Centre, is advancing this vision by integrating patient and public voices into every stage of guideline development.

New Cochrane evidence is clear: the #HPV vaccine protects against cervical cancer, genital warts, and other HPV-related diseases — cutting cervical cancer risk by ~80% when given before age 16. Safe, effective, and most powerful in adolescents. 💙

Read more here: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Webinar Alert! Planetary Health in Cochrane and GRADE 🌍

DATE: 📅 Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Join Denise Thomson & Dr. Thomas Piggott to explore how to integrate environmental considerations into evidence syntheses & clinical guidelines.

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Cochrane Methods Webinar Alert!

Learn how Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta-analysis strengthens evidence synthesis.

📅Nov 27 | 09:00–10:00 UTC
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#MetaAnalysis #Cochrane

COVID-19 vaccines do not only help prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death — they may also reduce the risk of developing post COVID-19 condition (#LongCOVID).

Learn more about recommendations for preventing #LongCOVID through vaccination here:
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🗣️ Help shape Cochrane’s next Patient and Public Involvement Strategy (for 2027 and beyond)!

Your input will help ensure the strategy reflects the needs of the global Cochrane community.

🕓 Deadline: 19 December 2025

👉 Take the survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#Cochrane #PublicInvolvement

🌍 It’s #WorldEBHCDay! Today, we highlight the importance of using evidence to guide health policies, practice, and decisions worldwide.

Read our blog to see what we learned while disseminating Canada’s #LongCOVID #CANPCC guidelines: 👉

worldebhcday.org/blog/2025/ch...

🎉Today, Oct 20, marks the 6th #WorldEBHCDay! The science of communication is evolving, with insights from storytelling, digital media, open science, and knowledge translation transforming how knowledge can—and must—be shared to inform decision-making👇
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Attending the 2025 #LCWSymposium? Don’t miss Dr. Robby Nieuwlaat’s presentation titled “Impact of the Canadian Guidelines for Post COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC) on Practice and Research”. 💡

📅 Oct 20, 2025
🕓 4:00–4:30 PM
#CANPCC #LongCOVID @longcovidweb.bsky.social

Ashley Motilall, Research Coordinator at Cochrane Canada, et al, offer insights into the challenges & lessons learned from Canada’s first evidence-based guidelines on #LongCOVID - a collaboration of over 150 researchers, health professionals & patients. https://ow.ly/MyCr50XcT7A #StillCoviding

If you are interested in conducting systematic reviews or training others in systematic review methods, join Cochrane's webinar “Analysing Other Outcomes & Study Designs” on Oct 21, 2025, from 13:00–14:00 UTC!

🔗 Register: www.cochrane.org/events/analy...

#Cochrane #SystematicReviews

Learn more about long COVID and the Canadian Guidelines for Post COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC) in three Toronto Star articles, featuring insights from Dr. Robby Nieuwlaat, co-PI of the guidelines:

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Participate in a research study to improve the wording of health recommendations! This 5-minute survey is anonymous and voluntary.

👉 Scan the QR code or click the link to participate: www.research.net/r/RecWording...