title: Evaluating the global 'Evidence Footprint': how can evidence better serve the needs of global public health?
abstract: The Cochrane Collaboration must strive to become a more global organization and help facilitate the use of evidence to improve public health, especially in the developing world. It can do so by improving the scope and relevance of its systematic reviews, by building capacity in countries to synthesize and use evidence for health policy development, and by addressing the challenge of developing methodologies for dealing with different types of evidence commonly used by health decision-makers in resource- and evidence-challenged settings.
authors.affiliation: Director of Department of Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Tikki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Prathap
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tharyan
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health