Tari Turner

Director Evidence and Methods of the Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Senior Research Fellow at Cochrane Australia

Co-Editor in Chief of Health Research Policy and Systems

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Dr Tari Turner is Director Evidence and Methods, of the Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce, leading development of living guidance for COVID-19 prevention and treatment, and a Senior Research Fellow at Cochrane Australia.

Tari leads research developing and evaluating methods for living evidence syntheses, including living systematic reviews and living guidelines; and translating synthesised evidence into improved healthcare practice and policy.

Tari is Co-Editor in Chief of Health Research Policy and Systems, a BMC journal published in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), a Senior Research Fellow with 3ie, and a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group to the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research.

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.