Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) has partnered with Cochrane Oral Health to form the Cochrane Oral Health Collaborating Center at Penn Dental Medicine, the first oral-health-oriented Cochrane collaborative group in the world. The new Center marks a significant step in helping to expand evidence-based knowledge to inform practice and oral health policy worldwide.
Cochrane Oral Health, headquartered at The University of Manchester in the UK, is one of the groups within Cochrane, a global independent not-for-profit network that produces systematic reviews across all areas of medicine. Cochrane has more than 37,000 contributors from over 190 countries working together to produce up-to-date, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest to help inform decisions about health care. Since its inception, Cochrane has defined the methodological standards for conducting systematic reviews around the world.
“Cochrane is delighted and supports this new initiative with Cochrane Oral Health,” says Karla Soares-Weiser, Cochrane’s editor-in-chief. “This international partnership will enhance the impact of the Oral Health reviews and build on the effective and long-term contribution made by the Group in this area.”
“We are thrilled to be joining with Cochrane Oral Health and our colleagues at The University of Manchester to help move oral health care practice and policy forward through this new Center,” adds Michael Glick, the executive director of CIGOH, the School’s first policy center, which launched in 2021 and where the Collaborating Center is based.
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