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CQIMG Team
If you need to contact the Group on Cochrane-related matters then contact the On-Call Convenor in the first instance. The On-call Convenors for 2024 are:
Dec 2023 Ruth Garside
Jan 2024 Jane Noyes
Feb 2024 Katy Sutcliffe
March 2024 Andrew Booth
April 2024 Jane Noyes
May 2024 James Thomas
June 2024 Kate Flemming
July 2024 Catherine Houghton
August 2024 Jane Noyes
September 2024 Emma France
Oct 2024 Angela Harden
Nov 2024 Ruth Garside
December 2024 Tomas Pantoja
Contact Details for all the above on-call convenors are listed below:
Lead Convenor
Jane Noyes, Professor, Health and Social Services Research and Child Health, Bangor University, UK.
E-mail: jane.noyes@bangor.ac.uk
Co-Convenors
Andrew Booth, Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice and Director of Information, Information Resources Group, HEDS, ScHARR, The University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA
E-mail: a.booth@sheffield.ac.uk
Kate Flemming, Senior Lecturer. The University of York, Department of Health Sciences, Research Section Area 4, Seebohm Rowntree Building, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Email: kate.flemming@york.ac.uk
Emma France , Associate Professor, Masters in Health Research Programme Director & Dissertation Module Co-ordinator, NMAHP Research Unit, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Email: emma.france@stir.ac.uk
Ruth Garside, Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis, University of Exeter Medical School, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Knowledge Spa, Truro, TR1 3HD
Email: R.Garside@exeter.ac.uk
Angela Harden, Professor of Community and Family Health, University of East London, Institute for Health and Human Development, IHHD, UH250, Stratford Campus, University of East London, Water Lane, London,E15 4LZ
Email: a.harden@uel.ac.uk
Catherine Houghton , Associate Professor, SoNM Director of Research, and Co-Chair of QUESTS, School of Nursing and Midwifery | Áras Moyola | University of Galway
Email:catherine.houghton@universityofgalway.ie
Tomas Pantoja, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.
E-mail: tpantoja@med.puc.cl
Katy Sutcliife, Associate Professor, Deputy Director NIHR Policy Research Programme Reviews Facility
EPPI Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London. office: 10 Woburn Square, London, WC1H0NS.
Email: katy.sutcliffe@ucl.ac.uk
James Thomas, Professor of Social Research & Policy, EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London, WC1H 0NR
Email: j.thomas@ioe.ac.uk