Dr Catherine Chamberlain is visiting the Division of Primary Care on Wednesday 24th May 2017 and will give a talk called “Interventions for supporting women to stop smoking in pregnancy: addressing context, challenges and opportunities during the evolution of a large Cochrane Review over 30 years”.
Catherine is an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University. She has over 25 years’ experience in maternal health, and has worked in remote, rural and urban settings across health service, government and university sectors. A descendant of the Trawlwoolway people (Tasmania), her fellowship focusses on strategies to reduce cardio-metabolic risk among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers. Her research interests include applied mixed method research and evaluation, including systematic reviews of evidence. She has been involved with Cochrane Reviews of ‘Interventions to support women to stop smoking in pregnancy’ for the last 15 years and is currently visiting the UK on an Australian Endeavour Award at the ‘Evidence for Policy and Practice Coordinating Centre’ at University College London.
Presentation overview:
Evidence synthesis is critical to ensure reliable and relevant research is available in an accessible format to support accountable decision-making regarding people’s health. This presentation will reflect on practical issues associated with the evolution of one of the largest reviews in the Cochrane Library over 6 updates in the past 30 years, commencing prior to the inception of the Cochrane Library - ‘Interventions to support women to stop smoking in pregnancy’.
Discussion will include: the impact of changing context and answering policy and practice relevant questions; dealing with challenges such as heterogeneity arising from a proliferation of smoking in pregnancy trials; and the opportunities arising from evolving evidence synthesis methods and tools, including complex review software, mixed methods reviews and network meta-analysis.
This seminar is part of the joint seminar/skills programme organised by the Divisions of Epidemiology & Public Health and Primary Care.