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>>Cumpston: I'm Miranda Cumpston. I'm the Cochrane Training Co-ordinator
and I'm based at the Australian Cochrane Centre which is in Melbourne, Australia.
So I do some of my time training Australian authors and also authors across the Southeast Asian region,
which is great fun.
But I also work internationally to help bring together Cochrane training strategy for authors and entity staff
and everyone else who contributes to the Cochrane Collaboration.
I became involved in Cochrane, it was kind of an accident.
We moved to Canada because of my partner's job
and I was unemployed and looking for something to do so I volunteered at the Canadian Cochrane Centre.
Initially I was helping them handsearch journals looking for trials.
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I'm really lucky to meet a lot of the authors who are working on reviews in different areas.
They are all working on different topics,
whether it's treating babies in an intensive care unit through to public health interventions.
I've been in workshops in Korea and Indonesia this year
which has been a fantastic opportunity to meet people working in different places, working on different topics,
so there's always something new and it's always a challenge.
There's a lot of projects going on at the moment trying to improve the way that we provide training,
so we're working on making sure that the training we deliver around the world is consistent.
Systematic reviews, they’re are not the kind of thing you can easily pick up in half an hour.
There's a lot of expertise that goes into it, but it's our job to help people learn that stuff
and build capacity around the world for bringing this evidence together and pulling something useful out of it.
You don't need to be a statistician, you don't need to be a systematic review expert already,
so we try to make sure that we start an introductory level and then there's a lot to learn after that.
The biggest impact that Cochrane has had,
I think is really contributing to a kind of global cultural shift towards evidence based health care more broadly
to really help set the agenda for what constitutes good evidence for what we're doing
and to really understand what we know and what we don't know.
I've never seen another organisation that works that way,
to have really minimal infrastructure
but that is very locally based, very open to people volunteering
and clearly, The Cochrane Collaboration does something that speaks to people
because so many people want to be involved.
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