How to Conduct Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to Improve Environmental Health Policy and Decision-Making
BEGINNER SESSION
UCSF Mission Bay Campus (in person only):
Beginner Workshop: Thursday, February 13, 2025; 10:30 am - 5 pm
Advanced Workshop: Friday, February 14, 2025; 9 am - 4 pm (Advanced course outline)
Beginner Workshop Course Outline
10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Session 1 & Session 2
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch on your own
1:30 pm - 5 pm: Sessions 3 - 5
Introduction/Session 1
- Evolution of systematic review in environmental health & how they are being used
- Implications from a regulatory perspective/why they are important to protecting public health
Session 2
- Problem formulation and protocol development
- Registering/publishing protocol
- Searching for and screening studies for inclusion, data extraction
- Develop a PECO statement
- Develop a search
- Data extraction
Session 3
Risk of bias
Session 4
- Evidence synthesis
- Meta-analysis
- Narrative synthesis
Session 5
Rating overall certainty of evidence