Tari Turner

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Tari Turner

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7990-1623
20042025

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Biography

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

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. 

During the pandemic period, Tari led the Australian National Clinical Evidence Taskforce which developed ultra-rapid living guidelines for care of people with COVID-19 that were updated more than 130 times. 

Tari’s previous work at Cochrane has included the SEA-URCHIN Project, which investigated whether implementation of research evidence can improve prevention and treatment of neonatal infection in hospitals in South East Asia; Project Transform developing innovative methods for production of Cochrane reviews; and CIPHER, a project that explored how to support and measure use of research by policymakers. Tari previously worked at World Vision Australia where she was Senior Health Advisor.

Tari holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University, a Master of Business from Swinburne University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Biostatistics from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from Monash University.

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):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Research area keywords

  • Knowledge Translation
  • implementation science
  • Evidence synthesis
  • Evidence-based policy
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Guidelines
  • Systematic reviews
  • Maternal and child health

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  • Consolidation of data to support demonstration of effectiveness of developmental vaccines for protection from EBOV, SUDV and MARV

    Turner, T. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Davenport, M. P. (Chief Investigator (CI))

    Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

    13/01/25 → 12/01/26

    Project: Research

  • AGREE II Extension: Quality Appraisal of Living Practice Guidelines

    Brouwers, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Florez, I. D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Turner, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Alonso, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Klarenbach, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Le, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Little, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Moher, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ngeh, E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Nicholls, S. G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Qaseem, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Sulis, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Velásquez Salazar, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), White, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Bernardo, W. M. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Lee, M. S. (Partner Investigator (PI)) & Sipilä, R. (Partner Investigator (PI))

    1/01/25 → 31/12/27

    Project: Research

  • OUTcomes POST COVID - Australian Platform Trial (OUTPOST-APT)

    Emery, J. D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Tong, S. Y. C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Mahar, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stocks, N. P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gibney, K. B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gonzalez-Chica, D. A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Snelling, T. L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Sandler, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Huang, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wallis, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Podubinski, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Glenister, K. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Biezen, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hitch, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Barnes, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Boyle, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Turner, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rigney, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Smith, M. Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Jones, M. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Dalziel, K. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Harald, P. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Cysique, L. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Chung Bernard Shiu, W. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Garton-Smith, J. (Associate Investigator (AI)), Allard, N. (Associate Investigator (AI)) & Cheng, A. (Associate Investigator (AI))

    1/06/24 → 31/05/25

    Project: Research

  • A living systematic review and network meta-analysis of interventions for post COVID-19 condition

    Zeraatkar, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Busse, J. W. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Agoritsas, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Brignardello-Petersen, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Chakraborty, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Darzi, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Guyatt, G. H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Izcovich, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Mbuagbaw, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Mills, E. J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Morgan, R. L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Murthy, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Rada, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Turner, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Arora, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Vandvik, P. O. (Chief Investigator (CI))

    1/01/24 → 30/09/25

    Project: Research

  • Updates to the National Clinical Practice Pregnancy Care Guidelines and Development of new National Clinical Practice Postnatal Care Guidelines

    Turner, T. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Homer, C. S. E. (Chief Investigator (CI)), White, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Bradfield, Z. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Bopp, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Khot, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Farquhar, C. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Green, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Fisher, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Beecher, C. (Chief Investigator (CI)), White, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Synnot, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Middleton, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Blair, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & McDonald, S. (Chief Investigator (CI))

    Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia)

    17/04/23 → 30/06/28

    Project: Research

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