CCInfo: Electronic news bulletin of The Cochrane Collaboration 8 June 2006 Contents: A. New home for Cochrane Sexually Transmitted Diseases Group B. Updated version of The Cochrane Manual now available C. New Zealand Order of Merit for Cindy Farquhar D. Minutes of mid-year Steering Group meeting now available E. New Administrator for Cochrane Health Equity Field F. New Executive Director for Canadian Cochrane Centre G. Cochrane News - submission deadline 26 June 2006 H. Nature debate on peer review I. University of Birmingham Masters course J. Job ads K. Next issue of CCInfo XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX A. Sender: Tara Horvath [THorvath@psg-ucsf.org] Subject: New home for Cochrane Sexually Transmitted Diseases Group Greetings, everyone, The Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group will now be managing the activities of the Cochrane Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Group. We are in the process of establishing a Satellite in Porto Alegre, Brazil to assist with the STD reviews. Dr. Mauro Ramos, of the Centro de Estudos de AIDS/Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis do Rio Grande do Sul (CEARGS), will take the lead. The eventual goal is for the STD Group's re-establishment as a free-standing entity. We'll send out more news about this as things progress! Best wishes, Tara XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX B. Sender: Jini Hetherington [JHetherington@cochrane.org] Subject: Updated version of The Cochrane Manual now available Thanks to the help of Nancy Owens, the latest update of The Cochrane Manual (a 248-page document containing the policies and procedures of The Cochrane Collaboration) is now available on the Collaboration website (http://www.cochrane.org/admin/manual.htm). Due to the size of the document, it takes a little while to download. Following are the sections that have been amended since February 2006: Section 2.1.5 Registering surveys with the Secretariat (minor update) Section 2.3 Commercial sponsorship policy (significant update) Best wishes, Jini. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX C. Sender: Mark Jeffery [Mark.Jeffery@cdhb.govt.nz] Subject: New Zealand Order of Merit for Cindy Farquhar On Monday June 5, 2006 the Queen's Birthday Honours list recognising outstanding contributions by New Zealand citizens was published. Under "The New Zealand Order of Merit" category Professor Cindy Farquhar from Auckland was awarded a MNZM (Members of the Order) for services to women's health. Cindy is well known throughout the Cochrane Collaboration and is currently the Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Review Group and Co-director for the NZ Branch of the Australasian Cochrane Centre. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX D. Sender: Jini Hetherington [JHetherington@cochrane.org] Subject: Minutes of mid-year Steering Group meeting now available The minutes of the Steering Group meeting held in Khon Kaen, Thailand, from 24 to 26 April 2006 were approved by the Steering Group Executive on 6 June 2006, and will shortly be available on the Collaboration website at www.cochrane.org/ccsg/index.htm With best wishes, Jini. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX E. Sender: Lara Maxwell [lmaxwell@uottawa.ca] Subject: New Administrator for Cochrane Health Equity Field We are pleased to announce that Jil Beardmore is the new Administrator of The Cochrane Health Equity Field and the Campbell Equity Methods Group. Jil is based at the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa and can be reached at jbeardmo@uottawa.ca. We welcome Jil to this role and please don’t hesitate to contact her should you have any questions related to the Equity Field. Best wishes, Peter Tugwell, Mark Petticrew, Lara Maxwell XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX F. Sender: Miranda Cumpston [cochrane@uottawa.ca] Subject: New Executive Director for Canadian Cochrane Centre The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre is very happy to welcome our new Executive Director, MaryEllen Schaafsma. MaryEllen will take the lead on many of our projects and activities from this point forward, and is looking forward to meeting many of you in the coming months. MaryEllen can be contacted at mschaafs@uottawa.ca. All the best, Jeremy Grimshaw and Miranda Cumpston XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX G. Sender: Miranda Cumpston [cochrane@uottawa.ca] Subject: Cochrane News - submission deadline 26 June 2006 Don't forget, the deadline for submissions for the next edition of Cochrane News is Monday, 26 June 2006. Articles and announcements (max. 600 words) are invited from all Cochrane contributors. If you're working on an interesting project, why not share it with us? Contributions should be sent to cochrane@uottawa.ca XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX H. Sender: Tom Jefferson [toj1@aol.com] Subject: Nature debate on peer review The journal Nature is currently running an online debate on the subject of peer review. Regular articles on the subject will be added throughout June, including a contribution from Tom Jefferson, Coordinator of the Cochrane Vaccines Field on June 19th. The URL for the debate is www.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate. All readers will be able to post (moderated) comments on any of the debate articles in the Nature commenting forum at http://blogs.nature.com/nature/peerreview/debate/comments. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I. Sender: Jonathan Roberts [j.r.roberts.1@BHAM.AC.UK] Subject: University of Birmingham Masters course University of Birmingham - Department of Public Health and Epidemiology Masters in Evidence-based Healthcare and Health Technology Assessment (MSc EBH&HTA) This course is designed to give a broad grounding in the growing field of evidence-based health care and health technology assessment, together with the opportunity to study topics of interest in more detail in optional courses through a project. The course is offered full-time for one year but can also be part-time over two years and is organised in week long taught modules. The course encompasses a number of disciplines including evidence based medicine, systematic reviews, health technology assessment,clinical trial methodology, health economics, statistics, public health and epidemiology. This exciting course is international in scope and content. It is particularly suitable for people who wish to use HTA to learn how to undertake high quality systematic reviews or health technology assessments, to make evidence-based decisions within health care, and become leaders in health policy making. Students discover how to ask challenging questions, understand the nature of research and evaluate evidence in an informed, unbiased way. HTA is an expanding discipline where employment prospects are very good. Modules are also available as short courses enabling skills and experience in specialist topics to be gained. Details of the course are available on the departmental website http://pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/programmes/hta/index.htm For further information please contact Ms Tricia Henley, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, telephone +44 121 414 3163, e-mail T.Henley@bham.ac.uk. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX J. Sender: Kay Dickersin [kdickers@jhsph.edu] Subject: Job ads Position: Trials Search Coordinator, Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Organisation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Location: London, UK Application deadline: 9 June 2006 Contact: Karen Blackhall Karen.Blackhall@lshtm.ac.uk or Anupa Shah cevg@lshtm.ac.uk Web: www.cochrane.org/jobs or www.lshtm.ac.uk/jobs/2005/2006%20FPS/cevg%20tsc1.pdf Position: Trials Search Co-ordinator, Cochrane Wounds Group Organisation: University of York Location: York, UK Application deadline: 30 June 2006 Contact: Sally Bell-Syer, 01904 321342, email sembs1@york,ac,uk Web: www.cochrane.org/jobs or www.york.ac.uk/univ/mis/cfm/vacancies/vac_result.cfm Position: Research Fellow/Associate (systematic reviews) Organisation: Liverpool Reviews & Implementation Group (LRiG), University of Liverpool Location: Liverpool, England Application deadline: 7 July 2006 Contact: jobs@liv.ac.uk (please quote Ref A/096) Web: www.cochrane.org/jobs or www.liv.ac.uk/university/jobs.html Position: Knowledge Transfer Officer Organisation: Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Location: Ottawa, Canada Application deadline: None specified Contact: judyc@cadth.ca Web: www.cochrane.org/jobs or www.cadth.ca/index.php/en/careers XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX K. Sender: Miranda Cumpston [cochrane@uottawa.ca] Subject: Next issue of CCInfo The next regular issue of CCInfo will be published on Thursday, 22 June 2006. Please submit your items to cochrane@uottawa.ca. When submitting messages for CCInfo, please include "CCInfo" in the subject line of your email so that I can readily identify submissions. Unless you request otherwise, your submissions to the CCInfo may be duplicated in other regular Cochrane Collaboration news channels, such as Cochrane News and the Cochrane Collaboration web site, at the discretion of the editors. regards, Miranda Miranda Cumpston Education Coordinator The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre Institute for Work & Health 481 University Ave, Suite 800 Toronto, ON M5G 2E9 Canada Ph: +1 416 927 2027 x2193 Fax: 416 927 4167 Email: cochrane@uottawa.ca Web: www.cochrane.uottawa.ca XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ______________________________________________ To subscribe to CCInfo, send an email to listserv@listserv.uottawa.ca with the message text "SUBSCRIBE CCINFO-L" (leave the subject line blank). To unsubscribe, send the message text "SIGNOFF CCINFO-L".