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Personal profile
Biography
Steve McDonald is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of Cochrane Australia. He is responsible for leading the learning and education program of Cochrane Australia and regularly teaches on evidence synthesis courses in Australia and South East Asia. He has extensive experience in conducting systematic reviews for Cochrane, as well as a range of government agencies, including Australia’s National Health & Medical Research Council.
Steve has a background in information science and his research interests include innovations to enhance the efficiency of evidence synthesis through automation; information retrieval methods and search strategy design; and methods for conducing overviews of reviews. Steve was a co-lead on Project Transform, a three-year flagship health evidence project funded by NHMRC and Cochrane, that developed machine classifiers to improve the efficiency of study identification. He is currently evaluating the application of these new technologies to support living systematic reviews and living guidelines through a part-time PhD.
Steve graduated in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1991. He has a Masters in Information Science from Loughborough University and a Graduate Diploma in International Health from Monash University. In 2015 he graduated from the Asialink Leaders Program. As part of Cochrane Australia's international responsibilities, he has helped establish and support Cochrane networks in South East Asia and East Asia. He was an elected member of Cochrane's Board of Directors from 2008 to 2015, and previously managed Cochrane’s international training program.
External positions
Director, Cochrane
Oct 2008 → Oct 2015Advisory Board, University of Adelaide
2003 → Mar 2015
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Projects
National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce
Elliott, J., Green, S., Zoungas, S., Buchbinder, R., Craig, J. C., McGowan, S., Tendal, B., Tate, R., Turner, T., McDonald, S. & Murano, M.
25/03/20 → 1/04/21
Project: Research
Living Evidence - To Establish a National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce
Elliott, J., Green, S., Zoungas, S., Buchbinder, R., Craig, J. C., McGowan, S., Tendal, B., Tate, R., Turner, T., McDonald, S. & Murano, M.
25/03/20 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Natural Therapies Methodological Reviews
Brennan, S., McDonald, S., McKenzie, J., Green, S. & Murano, M.
16/12/19 → 31/08/20
Project: Research
Living clinical guidelines for stroke management
Turner, T., McDonald, S., Elliott, J. & Green, S.
1/07/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
Research Output
Long-term effects of alcohol consumption on cognitive function: a systematic review and dose-response analysis of evidence published between 2007 and 2018
Brennan, S. E., McDonald, S., Page, M. J., Reid, J., Ward, S., Forbes, A. B. & McKenzie, J. E., 13 Feb 2020, In : Systematic Reviews. 9, 1, 39 p., 33.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Methods used to meta-analyse results from interrupted time series studies: A methodological systematic review protocol [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Korevaar, E., Karahalios, A., Forbes, A. B., Turner, S., McDonald, S., Taljaard, M., Grimshaw, J. M., Cheng, A. C. & Bero, L., 12 Feb 2020, In : F1000Research. 9, 110, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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Overviews of reviews incompletely report methods for handling overlapping, discordant, and problematic data
Lunny, C., Brennan, S. E., Reid, J., McDonald, S. & McKenzie, J. E., 1 Feb 2020, In : Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 118, p. 69-85 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Autologous blood product injections including platelet-rich plasma for osteoarthritis of the knee (Protocol)
Whittle, S. L., Johnston, R. V., McDonald, S., Paterson, K. L. & Buchbinder, R., 23 May 2019, In : Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2019, 5, 15 p., CD013341.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Dilute versus full-strength formula in exclusively formula-fed preterm or low birth weight infants
Basuki, F., Hadiati, D. R., Turner, T., McDonald, S. & Hakimi, M., 27 Jun 2019, In : Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2019, 6, 33 p., CD007263.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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