The Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group is registered with the Campbell and the Cochrane Collaborations.  Both the Cochrane and Campbell Collaborations are international, not-for-profit, and independent organizations.

The Cochrane Collaboration's purpose is to ensure that relevant, accurate, and current research about health interventions is available worldwide. To meet this objective, Cochrane contributors conduct and distribute systematic reviews.  Similarly, the Campbell Collaboration produces reviews with an aim to "help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas."

The Equity Methods Group encourages authors of both Campbell and Cochrane reviews to include explicit descriptions of the effect of the interventions not only on the whole population but to describe their effect upon the disadvantaged and/or their ability to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health and to promote their use to the wider community.  Ultimately, this will help build the evidence base on such interventions and increase our capacity to act on the health gap between rich and poor.

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Attention review authors: 

Are you looking to incorporate equity into your review?  The Equity Checklist is a tool that can help!

Equity Update published

March 2, 2010:  We've just published an Equity Update (Vol. 4, Issue 1)!  For the latest news from the Equity Methods Group, please download our newsletter. 

Equity Webinar on YouTube

July 7, 2010:  In collaboration with the Canadian Cochrane Centre and with support from PAHO, we gave a webinar on "What Equity Can Do For You".  Many thanks to Luis Gabriel Cuervo of PAHO for creating a YouTube video from the slides and the recording!  If you would like to participate in our next webinar, please contact Erin Ueffing.

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