Professor Zachary Munn is an advocate for evidence-based healthcare and for ensuring policy and practice is based on the best available evidence. He is the Director of the Adelaide GRADE Centre and Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI) in the School of Public Health at Adelaide University; Head of the Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative (ESTI); Founding Director of the JBI Adelaide GRADE Centre; Past Chair of the Guidelines International Network (GIN), and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator. He is a systematic review, evidence implementation and guideline development methodologist.

Associate Professor Edoardo Aromataris is a proponent for the use of available research evidence to inform clinical practice and policy decisions in health care, and the research that underpins this best practice. To this end, Edoardo has a keen interest in the best-practice conduct and reporting of evidence syntheses, including diverse types of systematic reviews, as well as practices central to their publication. He is the Director of Synthesis Science at JBI and the lead of the contract and consultant research program for JBI in the School of Public Health at Adelaide University; he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of JBI Evidence Synthesis and the co-Deputy Director of the Adelaide GRADE Centre.

Dr Timothy Barker is a research methodologist with experience in multiple evidence synthesis approaches. He is the Deputy Director of the Adelaide GRADE Centre and a Senior Research Fellow in Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI) in the School of Public Health at Adelaide University. Dr Barker has been internationally accredited (INGUIDE – Level III) to serve as a research methodologist and chair in the development of clinical practice guidelines. He has published guidance for the conduct of systematic reviews that do not focus on randomised controlled trials, including the development of risk-of-bias tools for different study designs (case series studies, quasi-experimental studies and cohort studies), meta-analysis of proportions, and guidance for prevalence systematic reviews.

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