Recent Campbell Posts

Written by Julia Bidonde and Catherine Boden, two of the authors of this project which will be presented at the Global Evidence Summit.Journal editors and large funding bodies require that researchers conducting clinical trials of interventions make the existence of their trials transparent and a matter of public reco....

Written by Gerd M Flodgren, researcher at the National Institute of Public Health in Oslo, Norway.Today it is considered very important to involve consumers in the research process, not only in primary research but also in systematic reviews. Consumers are recipients of healthcare or social care, they are patients or c....

Howard White, CEO of the Campbell Collaboration, was recently interviewed by Andy Feldman at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC. Below you can access the podcast, Part 1 of the interview on useful principles for evidence-based policy and practice. Principles discussed during the interview were:Principle 1: Us....

Written by Axel Vande veegaete, Scientific Coordinator, Humanitarian Services at Belgian Red Cross-FlandersWASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)Meet Charlotte, recently appointed to work with WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) for the Belgian Red Cross. With her knowledge of geology and specialisation in groundwater ....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationHow much is a life worth? At the recent Symposium on Systematic reviews organized by KU Leuven, Marijke Eyssen discussed a case when the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) took an explicit stand on this issue.An intervention for people at risk of heart attacks was....

By Ashrita Saran, Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration        This year International Women’s day is being celebrated with the vision to undertake groundbreaking action that truly drives the greatest change for women, #BeBoldForChange. The global focus on gender equality and equity is imper....

By Denny John, Evidence Synthesis Specialist, Campbell Collaboration The Campbell Collaboration, along with the Global Development Network (GDN) and 3ie, recently conducted an event bringing together policy makers, academics, impact evaluators, and evidence researchers, on how to leverage national and global research-....

By Ammar Ismail, a MBChB candidate at Al-Azhar school of medicine. Originally posted on our partner's site, students4bestevidence.net.What is a meta-analysis?Meta-analysis is a statistical technique for combining data from multiple studies on a particular topic.Meta-analyses play a fundamental role in evidence-based h....

By Howard White, CEO, Campbell CollaborationMore than 880 million children around the world suffer from soil-transmitted helminth infections, more commonly known as worms. About one-quarter of these children are in India where over two-thirds of children are infected. The World Health Organization recommends mass dewor....

By Howard White, CEO, The Campbell CollaborationA recent news item in the UK reported that many parents are paying their children pocket money into their twenties or even thirties. And there are many stories of ‘failure to launch’, that is adult children still living ‘at home’.  But another news item which cau....