MARCHES workshop on Systematic Reviews in Environmental Health

July 6, 2023:

From the 26th to the 28th of June 2023 the MARCHES project held a Workshop on Systematic Reviews in Environmental Health. The program consisted of lectures and hands-on exercises and group work. The workshop was held at Aarhus University in Denmark.

The topics at the workshop were: Systematic reviews in the knowledge translation cycle, Protocol development, Relevance and Inclusion, Data extraction, Risk of bias, Analyses, GRADEing the evidence and Implications.

The systematic review topics covered by the participants included air pollution and a wide range of health effects such as depression, obesity, and semen quality, as well as drinking water nitrate and birth defects.

The groups worked on their review protocols that will be finalized and published within the coming months.

The participants were representatives from the partners in the MARCHES project and the MISTRAL project which is also a project within the METEOR Cluster.  The facilitators at the workshop were Swiss TPH, 3ie and the Danish Royal Library.