The Department of Evidence-Based Medicine and Evaluation became a WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-based Medicine in 2017.

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Within the framework of this collaboration, we conduct trainings of WHO staff. The focus here is on teaching methodological skills in guideline development. In addition, we hold regular web-based meetings with WHO staff to answer questions that arise during guideline development. Another task involves the preparation of German-language summaries of English-language WHO guidelines. Each year, we publish two German-language summaries in the journal "Das Gesundheitswesen".
The WHO also regularly commissions our department to prepare systematic reviews and rapid reviews, which subsequently serve as the basis for WHO guidelines.

Published evidence syntheses commissioned by the WHO

Nussbaumer-Streit, B.; Mayr, V.; Dobrescu; A.I.; Wagner, G.; Chapman, A.; Pfadenhauer, L.M.; Lohner, S.; Lhachimi, S.K.; Busert, L.K.; Gartlehner, G.; (2020). Household interventions for secondary prevention of domestic lead exposure in children (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 10: Art. No.: CD006047
Nussbaumer-Streit, B.; Mayr, V.; Dobrescu, A.I.; Chapman, A.; Persad, E.; Klerings, I.; Wagner, G.; Siebert, U.; Christof, C.; Zachariah, C.; Gartlehner, G.; (2020). Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: a rapid review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 4: Art. No.: CD013574
Mayr, V.; Nussbaumer-Streit, B.; Gartlehner, G. (2020). Quarantäne alleine oder in Kombination mit weiteren Public-Health-Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung der COVID-19 Pandemie: Ein Cochrane Rapid Review. Gesundheitswesen, https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1164-6611: https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1164-6611
Viswanathan, M.; Kahwati, L.; Jahn,B.; Giger, K.; Dobrescu, A.I.; Hill, C.; Klerings, I.; Meixner, J.; Persad, E.; Teufer, B.; Gartlehner, G. (2020). Universal screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection:a rapid review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue9.: Art.No.:CD013718

Head of Centre

Gerald Gartlehner

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerald Gartlehner, MPH

Head of Department - Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation

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Assistance

Petra Wellemsen

Petra Wellemsen

Assistant - Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation

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Academic Associates

Barbara Nußbaumer-Streit

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Nußbaumer-Streit, MSc BSc

Head - Cochrane Austria

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Isolde Sommer

Assoz. Prof. Mag. Isolde Sommer, PhD MPH

Academic Associate - Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation

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