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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 2025 are:
Jan 2025 Jane Noyes
Feb 2025 Katy Sutcliffe
March 2025 Andrew Booth
April 2025 Jane Noyes
May 2025 Emma France
June 2025 Kate Flemming
July 2025 Catherine Houghton
August 2025 Jane Noyes
September 2025 Emma France
Oct 2025 Angela Harden
Nov 2025 Ruth Garside
December 2025 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
Heather Ames, Senior Researcher, Global Health, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Postal address: Postboks 222 Skøyen, 0213 Oslo
Visiting address: Myrens verksted 3L, 0473 Oslo
Email: Heather.Ames@fhi.no