Welcome to the 20th Anniversary site of The Cochrane Collaboration

Welcome to The Cochrane Collaboration’s 20th Anniversary website!

As the Collaboration celebrates 20 years since its official foundation in 1993, a full year of commemorative events is underway, including a series of videos, publications across the healthcare spectrum, and events worldwide, including this year’s Cochrane Colloquium in Quebec City. Please bookmark this site and check back frequently to keep up to date with events, commemorations, and anniversary-related news, and please submit your own items for inclusion on the site.

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Tenth video released

The tenth in the Cochrane20 Video Series focuses on the importance of engaging consumers in The Cochrane Collaboration's work, to inform research agendas, improve understanding and communication of evidence, and enable participation in healthcare decision-making.

Video #10 (16 May 2013): Engaging consumers

To see all published videos, visit our Videos page or visit the Cochrane Collaboration Channel on YouTube. Note: Videos are captioned in 60 languages via Google Translate. Click the "Turn on Captions" button in the player once the video begins and then "Translate Captions - Beta" (please note that quality of translations varies depending on language chosen).

May 16, 2013

JAMA on 20 years of Cochrane

The Journal of the American Medical Association helps us celebrate our anniversary with an article in the Medical News and Perspectives section of its 8 May 2013 issue.

The Cochrane Collaboration Turns 20
Assessing the Evidence to Inform Clinical Care
M. J. Friedrich
JAMA. 2013;309(18):1881-1882. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.1827.

May 13, 2013

Ninth video released

Video #9 (2 May 2013): Cochrane Profile: Ashraf Nabhan

To see all published videos, visit our Videos page or visit the Cochrane Collaboration Channel on YouTube.

May 2, 2013

Jani Ruotsalainen, ME, finishes the 30th Finland Ice Marathon as Cochrane representative

In February 2013, Jani Ruotsalainen, Managing Editor of the Cochrane Occupational Safety and Health Review Group (based at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health), drew attention to The Cochrane Collaboration in its 20th Anniversary year by entering the 30th Finland Ice Marathon in Kuopio as a representative of the Cochrane Collaboration.