Tari Turner

Dr Tari Turner is a Senior Research Fellow on Project Transform at Cochrane Australia, and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Research Policy and Systems.

Tari's passion is supporting evidence-based decision-making to ensure the best possible outcomes. She enjoys designing, finding, synthesising and communicating research, and she loves seeing research actually make a difference.

Tari works on Project Transform, a three-year flagship health evidence project, which is piloting, refining and scaling-up innovations in evidence production by the global Cochrane network. She also supports evidence translation work, particularly around maternal and newborn health in resource-constrained settings.

Tari's previous work at Cochrane Australia was on SEA-URCHIN and SEA-ORCHID projects investigating whether implementation of research evidence can improve care for mothers and babies in hospitals in South East Asia; and CIPHER exploring how to support use of research by policymakers. She also worked as Senior Health Advisor at World Vision Australia.

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.