Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews:
Standard Methods and Open Questions

The learning objectives for this webinar are:

• Discuss how systematic reviews and meta-analysis can help meet the aims of researchers and decision-makers;
• Understand the current methods used in systematic reviews and meta-analysis; and
• Examine methodological questions under discussion by the research community.

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Our presenters:

Kay Dickersin, MA, PhD Professor Director, Center for Clinical Trials Director, US Cochrane Center Johns Hopkins University Dr. Dickersin's major research interests are related to randomized clinical trials, trials registers, systematic reviews and meta analysis, reporting biases, peer review, evidence-based health care, and comparative effectiveness research. She has conducted studies in a number of important subject areas, including women's health, eyes and vision, and surgery.

Tianjing Li, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins University Dr. Li's core research competencies comprise the methodology and reporting of systematic reviews, meta-analysis, randomized controlled trials, reporting biases, and missing data. Dr. Li has published on effectiveness of interventions for eye diseases, methodology for setting priorities for comparative effectiveness research, and on using network meta-analysis methods for comparing multiple interventions.

Wednesday
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Eastern Time

EnRICH Webinar Series
EnRICH (Research Innovations & Challenges) is a series of webinars that feature special topics related to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) research. Each event features one or more speakers who are experts in the field. Past webinars include:

•  More than pretty pictures: From GIS to Spatial Analysis in MCH

•  Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)

•  Some Cool Advances in Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling

•  Mediation Analysis and Its Application in Maternal and Child Health 

See a full list of webinars on the MCHB EnRICH website.

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EnRICH is a series of webinars that feature special topics related to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) research. Each event features one or more speakers who are experts in the field. EnRICH webinars are conducted by the MCH Training and Research Resource Center, which is co-funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau's (MCHB) Office of Epidemiology and Research, Division of Research.