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Online webinar series on good reporting of health research studies

Sponsored by the Equator Network and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) under their agreement of collaboration to improve research for health reporting in the Americas through the use of guidelines that promote greater accuracy and transparency.

The next webinar in the EQUATOR PAHO webinar series will take place on 19 March 2014 and will focus on the STROBE Statement for reporting observational studies. The webinar will be presented by Dr Erik von Elm, Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

Please see below for further details about the webinar.

Title: The STROBE Statement: reporting observational studies.
Date: 19 March 2014 – webinar will be approximately 1 hour.
Time: 16:00 CET (Switzerland)/15:00 GMT (London)/11:00 EDT (Washington).
Presenter: Dr Erik von Elm, Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland.

Erik von Elm is a senior epidemiologist with research interests in the methodology of interventional and observational studies in clinical epidemiology and public health, evidence-based medicine, the synthesis and dissemination of research evidence (incl. related biases) and issues of scientific reporting. He holds an MD degree (University of Tübingen, Germany), a Master degree in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK) and is a board-certified specialist in Public Health (Swiss Medical Board, FMH). He is with the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP) at the Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he coordinates the postgraduate training programme of the Clinical Epidemiology Centre (CepiC) and the Clinical Trial Unit. He is co-director of Cochrane Switzerland, the Swiss branch of the Cochrane Collaboration based in Lausanne. He also serves as academic editor of PLoS ONE, an open- access journal of the Public Library of Science, as co-convenor of the STROBE Initiative and as ad-hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed biomedical journals and research funding agencies.

Language: conducted in English only.
Target audience: Health research scientists, clinicians, editors, peer reviewers, and all professionals involved in conducting, supporting or publishing health-related research.
Via: Blackboard Collaborate. Log into: www.paho.org/virtual/Research
Registration: There is no need for formal registration for this free webinar.

For further information and webinar joining details please visit:

http://www.equator-network.org/2014/03/10/webinar-the-strobe-statement-reporting-observational-studies/

With best wishes,

Shona

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Shona Kirtley

Senior Research Information Specialist

EQUATOR Network

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