About us

Cochrane is an international network with headquarters in the UK, a registered not-for-profit organization, and a member of the UK National Council for Voluntary Organizations. Cochrane produces systematic reviews, published in the Cochrane Library, to help people make informed health decisions.

Cochrane is for anyone interested in using high-quality information to make health decisions. Whether you are a clinician, patient or carer, researcher, or policy-maker, Cochrane evidence provides a powerful tool to enhance your healthcare knowledge and decision-making.

Cochrane's members and supporters come from more than 190 countries, worldwide. We are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, and people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere. Our global independent network gathers and summarizes the best evidence from research to help you make informed choices about treatment and we have been doing this for 30 years.

We do not accept commercial or conflicted funding. This is vital for us to generate authoritative and reliable information, working freely, unconstrained by commercial and financial interests.


Our vision

Our vision

Our vision is a world where health decisions are based upon timely, trusted and relevant evidence.


Our missionOur mission 

We are an independent organization that collaborates with global partners to produce accessible, trusted evidence and advocate for its use to deliver better, more equitable health for all.


What we do iconWhat we do

Cochrane exists to provide reliable evidence that people can use to make more informed health decisions. We produce evidence in the form of systematic reviews by carefully examining all of the scientific research to answer a particular question – for example, ‘does treatment X help people with disease Y?’ – and working out what the overall effect is. We use sophisticated methods to combine and compare several studies, sometimes hundreds, making our reviews more reliable than individual studies.


How we do this iconHow do we do this?

  1. Collaboration: Underpins everything we do, locally and globally
  2. Relevance: The right evidence at the right time in the right format
  3. Integrity: Independent and transparent
  4. Quality: Reviewing and improving what we do, maintaining rigour and trust

There is no one place or office that is 'Cochrane'. Our global network of members and supporters work together to achieve our strategic goals and are usually affiliated to one or more Cochrane Groups based on their interests, expertise, and/or geographical location. Find out more about our organizational structure.


Why do we do this?Why do we do this?

Our mission to provide accessible, credible information to support informed decision-making has never been more important or useful for improving global health. In the digital age, people have much greater access to health information, but little way of knowing whether that information is accurate and unbiased. We do not accept commercial or conflicted funding. This is vital for us to generate authoritative and reliable information, working freely, unconstrained by commercial and financial interests.

For more information on our conflict of interest policy, click here.

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