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Miranda Cumpston joined the Australasian Cochrane Centre as a Research Officer in January 2007. Miranda is currently working with the Policy Liaison Initiative team to evaluate efforts to increase the use of research by Australian policy makers. She also contributes to the ACC's training program, developing materials and facilitating workshops for authors of systematic reviews, and is working to develop standard editorial procedures and systems for The Cochrane Collaboration.
Miranda has recently spent a year as the Coordinator of the Australian Editorial Base of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, providing editorial support to Cochrane review authors, and three years as the Education Coordinator for the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre in Ottawa, where she was responsible for training in evidence-based decision making and systematic review methodology. She brings several years of experience in health policy, having worked with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing and as a parliamentary advisor to the Shadow Minister for Health.
Miranda holds Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Queensland and an Honours degree in Government. Miranda is an author with the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group and the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, convenor of the Cochrane Review Group Procedures Working Group and a member of the Collaboration's Editorial Management Advisory Group.
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