Tari Turner

Professor Tari Turner is Director of the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration, leading development of living guidelines, and a Professor (Research) at Cochrane Australia, Monash University.

Prof Turner leads research developing and evaluating innovative methods for evidence synthesis, including living systematic reviews and living guidelines & novel methods for assessment of pre-clinical evidence in vaccine development; and translating synthesised evidence into improved healthcare practice and policy.

Tari’s passion is supporting evidence-based decision-making to ensure the best possible outcomes, particularly for women and children in low resource settings. She enjoys designing, finding, synthesising and communicating research, and she loves seeing research actually make a difference.

Tari is an Editor of the Cochrane Library and Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, and was previously Co-Editor in Chief of Health Research Policy and Systems, a BMC journal published in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). She is also a member of the European CDC Methodological Advisory Group, and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group to the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research; an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute; a Senior Research Fellow at 3ie and Chair of the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Ethics Committee.