Director Australian Living Evidence Collaboration - School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Professor Tari Turner is Director of the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration, leading development of living guidelines, and a Professor (Research) at Cochrane Australia, in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at 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. Her team leads the LEAPP guidelines, national living guidelines for pregnancy and postnatal care.  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 Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group to the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She is also a member of the European CDC Methodological Advisory Group, and Chair of the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Ethics Committee.