David Fraile Navarro is a Research Fellow in Living Evidence Methods at Cochrane Australia. Before his current position, David has worked as a Senior Evidence Officer for the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. Providing methods help and being the method's chair for the Paediatric and Adolescent Care Panel.

His research interests lie in the domain of developing new research methods for evidence synthesis, clinical guideline development, public health, and primary care. He is also actively working in the field of Health Informatics and automation of the primary care health record using Natural Language Processing technology, currently completing his PhD at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.

He is a trained General Practitioner, with clinical experience in Spain and the UK where he was an Academic Fellow in General Practice at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Previously, he also collaborated with the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre in Barcelona, Spain. Developing systematic reviews for the COMPAR-EU project and in the quality appraisal of nutritional guidelines.