Cochrane_US
banner
cochraneus.bsky.social
Cochrane_US
@cochraneus.bsky.social
We're new here! 👋
Cochrane is a global independent group of researchers, professionals, patients, careers, and people interested in health. We are the US network!
Learn about our group here👉 https://us.cochrane.org/news
Pinned
🌟Systematic reviews = the gold standard of evidence.

💪Learn how to do them confidently in our new Tuft course (Spring 2026).

👀Open to MPH, medical, grad students & clinicians.

👉Apply by Dec 24!
📘🔍 #EvidenceBased #PublicHealth @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @cochrane.org
Reposted by Cochrane_US
📊 Health and Climate Change Summary for Policymakers now available 📊

This summary for policymakers highlights key findings and health and climate priority actions to protect and promote health.

📄 Read it here: buff.ly/V5XM9DL #LancetClimate25
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Every child deserves safety, learning and hope. That includes displaced children.

On #WorldChildrensDay, we stand with refugee and displaced children everywhere. Today, and every day, let’s make sure no child is left behind.
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Cochrane is inviting proposals from AI tool developers to join a pilot shaping the future of evidence synthesis.

This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a trusted organization in health research and help advance evidence.

🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
Call for proposals: AI tools to transform evidence synthesis | Cochrane
www.cochrane.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
This #WorldCervicalCancerEliminationDay, we're highlighting that decisions around receiving HPV vaccine are shaped by complex factors.

Our review shows that social, cultural, trust-related and practical factors all play a role.

🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

#SciPol #Vaccines # HPV
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
The HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases, but hesitancy remains high.

Researchers at Cochrane South Africa explain how public health professionals can put their qualitative evidence findings into practice.

🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🌟Systematic reviews = the gold standard of evidence.

💪Learn how to do them confidently in our new Tuft course (Spring 2026).

👀Open to MPH, medical, grad students & clinicians.

👉Apply by Dec 24!
📘🔍 #EvidenceBased #PublicHealth @tuftsmedschool.bsky.social @cochrane.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🧠🇮🇹 New from @CochraneItaly!
Discover how we’re strengthening evidence together to advance #EvidenceBasedHealthcare 💪

Read more on the #WorldEBHCDay blog 👇
🔗 worldebhcday.org/blog/2025/st...

#Cochrane #WorldEBHCDay #EBHC #ResearchImpact
Strengthening evidence together: the Cochrane Italy experience | World EBHC Day
Authors: Claudia De Santis1, Elisa Baldin1, Francesco Nonino11. IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Unit of Epidemiology and Statistics, Cochrane, Italia
worldebhcday.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚨 Ready to master systematic reviews like a Cochrane pro?

Join the Standard Author Training this November 6, 13 & 20 (online), learn protocol design, bias appraisal, GRADE, RevMan, Rayyan & AI tools!

💻 Taught by experts!
🔗 Register now 👉 tinyurl.com/SysRevNov

#Cochrane #EvidenceBasedMedicine
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
I am so proud to say that our paper is now available at Aging Cell. There is a paucity of data as to how the menopause impacts your immune system, and the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the menopause on monocyte phenotype and function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Age‐Associated Inflammatory Monocytes Are Increased in Menopausal Females and Reversed by Hormone Replacement Therapy
Post-menopausal females (> 64 years) have an increase in frequency of inflammatory monocyte populations with defective phagocytosis as compared to pre-menopausal (< 40 years) females. Hormone Replace....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Public health is like cake. Cake has layers. Public health has layers. And when we stack the layers of public health – think combining sanitation + nutrition + medical treatments + vaccines + addressing social & environmental factors that impact health – we get to enjoy more birthday cakes.

1/9 🧵🧵
October 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Turning greywater into drinking water?

That’s what Noemi Florea, one of the 2025 #YoungChamps of the Earth 🎉, is doing with her innovation Cycleau, a compact system that removes 200+ contaminants, cuts water use by 80% and lowers energy demand by a third. tinyurl.com/2jzrc9h7
#GenerationRestoration
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 Oct. Not only did he make a discovery that laid the foundations for stem cell research, he also created one of the best environments for research at the Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...
Sir John Gurdon, 1933-2025 | Wellcome
A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 October. He made a discovery that opened up the field of cloning research, and created one of the best environments for res...
wellcome.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
In Kenya, the Restoration Factory—an incubation programme enabled by the UNEP Climate Fund—is helping entrepreneurs develop climate-resilient businesses that support local communities and restore and preserve landscapes.

See how: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
October 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Welcome to the team, Carson Kingsbury! 👋🎊

👀Cochrane Fellow, Tufts MPH student, and neuropsychological researcher joining Cochrane US–Tufts.

🔗 us.cochrane.org/news/cochran...
Cochrane US – The Tufts Affiliate Welcomes Carson Kingsbury to the Team! | Cochrane US
Cochrane US – The Tufts Affiliate Welcomes Carson Kingsbury to the Team!
us.cochrane.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🚀 Exciting development: WHO has launched the Global Clinical Trials Forum to strengthen trial capacity and improve global health research.
🧬 Learn more here 👉 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

#GlobalHealth #ClinicalTrials
WHO launches global clinical trials forum | Cochrane
www.cochrane.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research: Many drug trials are vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and patient safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/h...
How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Hope is seeing more and more countries reject HIV criminalization laws and adopt rights-based, evidence-informed approaches 👏🏽

Countries must continue to stand on the side of RIGHTS to #endAIDS.

Learn more: www.unaids.org/sites/defaul...
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
We need to normalise having conversations about the impact a growing population is having on our planet
October 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Our own group guidance on how to write a #Cochrane systematic review is available for download from our #resources page
cgf.cochrane.org/resources

"CGF Guidance for protocols and new reviews using Risk of Bias 1.0 or Risk of Bias 2" #systematicreview #evidence #writing
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
⏰ Webinar today at 14:00 CEST: “From science to stories: Strategies for communicating #HIV science in changing funding landscapes”!

👥 Featuring: Chris Beyrer, Mia Malan, Solange Baptiste, Nomathemba Chandiwana, Mumbi Chola, Brian Honermann, Lizzie Otaye, Nittaya Phanuphak & Veriano de Souza Terto.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From science to stories: Strategies for communicating HIV science in changing funding landscapes. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email a...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From science to stories: Strategies for communicating HIV science in changing funding landscapes. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email a...
iasociety.zoom.us
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
as expected, this happens, again

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

#Pubmed #USGovtShutdown #MedSky
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...
Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
On-pack pictorial warning labels featuring monetary savings, empathetic health messages, and family-oriented benefits can stimulate thoughts of quitting more effectively than a health-oriented label designed to arouse fear, find Philip Gendall et al.

academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-...
How Do People Who Smoke Respond to Novel Tobacco Pack Warnings? Two Cross-Sectional Studies from Aotearoa New Zealand
AbstractIntroduction. On-pack pictorial warning labels (PWLs) typically feature graphic health risks of smoking. We examined whether expanding the themes f
academic.oup.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
Mountains… ⛰️🤎

feed rivers,
shape weather,
shelter wildlife,
sustain communities,
inspire cultures,
offer refuge,
astonish with their beauty.

Yet, their importance is too often forgotten, even as they shape life far beyond their peaks.
October 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by Cochrane_US
𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲

We held the launch webinar of a UNU-IIGH working paper, where a panel explored the gendered risks of privatised practices on the predominantly female health workforce.

📺 Webinar: go.unu.edu/GrHMw
📄 Paper: go.unu.edu/xlUIt
October 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM