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Personal profile
Biography
Steve McDonald is co-director and senior information specialist at Cochrane Australia where he is responsible for the learning and education program. He has extensive experience in conducting systematic reviews for Cochrane, as well as a range of government agencies, including WHO and Australia’s NHMRC. His research interests include innovations to enhance the efficiency of study identification through automation, methods to support living systematic reviews and guidelines, and reporting of systematic reviews. He is the information specialist with the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce and National Stroke Foundation guidelines, and a member of the PRISMA 2020 group.
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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Director, Cochrane (United Kingdom)
Oct 2008 → Oct 2015
Advisory Board, University of Adelaide
2003 → Mar 2015
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Updates to the National Clinical Practice Pregnancy Care Guidelines and Development of new National Clinical Practice Postnatal Care Guidelines
Turner, T., Homer, C. S. E., White, H., Bradfield, Z., Bopp, B., Khot, N., Farquhar, C. M., Green, S., Fisher, J., Beecher, C., White, H., Synnot, A., Middleton, P., Blair, A. & McDonald, S.
Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)
1/03/23 → 29/02/28
Project: Research
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Are COVID-19 systematic reviews up to date and can we tell? A cross-sectional study
McDonald, S., Turner, S. L., Nguyen, P. Y., Page, M. J. & Turner, T., 18 May 2023, In: Systematic Reviews. 12, 1, 8 p., 85.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Methods for living guidelines: early guidance based on practical experience: Paper 4: Search methods and approaches for living guidelines
McDonald, S., Sharp, S., Morgan, R. L., Murad, M. H., Fraile Navarro, D. & on behalf of the Australian Living Evidence Consortium Methods and Processes Working Group and Collaborators, Mar 2023, In: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 115, p. 108-117 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Methods for living guidelines: early guidance based on practical experience: Paper 1: Introduction
Cheyne, S., Fraile Navarro, D., Hill, K., McDonald, S., Tunnicliffe, D., White, H., Whittle, S., Karpusheff, J., Mustafa, R., Morgan, R. L., Sultan, S., Turner, T. & on behalf of the Australian Living Evidence Consortium Methods and Processes Working Group and Collaborators, Mar 2023, In: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 155, p. 84-96 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
Weekly updating of guideline recommendations was feasible: the Australian National COVID-19 clinical evidence Taskforce
Hewitt, J., McDonald, S., Poole, A., White, H., Turner, S. & Turner, T., Mar 2023, In: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 155, p. 131-136 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A declaração PRISMA 2020: Diretriz atualizada para relatar revisões sistemáticas
Page, M. J., McKenzie, J. E., Bossuyt, P. M., Boutron, I., Hoffmann, T. C., Mulrow, C. D., Shamseer, L., Tetzlaff, J. M., Akl, E. A., Brennan, S. E., Chou, R., Glanville, J., Grimshaw, J. M., Hróbjartsson, A., Lalu, M. M., Li, T., Loder, E. W., Mayo-Wilson, E., McDonald, S., McGuinness, L. A., & 6 others , 2022, In: Epidemiologia e Servicos de Saude. 31, 2, 20 p., e2022107.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)