The Cochrane Collaboration is an international non-profit and independent organisation, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. The Cochrane Collaboration was founded in 1993 and named for the British epidemiologist, Archie Cochrane.

The Cochrane Collaboration produces the Cochrane Library, which consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Find out more at: WWW.COCHRANE.ORG Annual Cochrane Colloquia are held to promote and develop the work of the Collaboration, and to help shape its future direction.  The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre also holds annual symposia to build capacity for Canadian systematic reviews, to offer training and to strengthen collaboration.

The 8th Annual Canadian Cochrane Sympsoium will take place from May 19-20, 2010 in Ottawa, Ontario.  For more information, please visit the Symposium website.