Professor Tari Turner is Director of the Australian Living Evidence Consortium and Director of the National Clinical Evidence Taskforce, leading development of living guidelines, and a Professor (Research) at Cochrane Australia. Prof Turner leads research developing and evaluating methods for living evidence syntheses, including living systematic reviews and living guidelines; and translating synthesised evidence into improved healthcare practice and policy.

Tari’s passion is supporting evidence-based decision-making to ensure the best possible outcomes, particularly for women and children in low resource settings. She enjoys designing, finding, synthesising and communicating research, and she loves seeing research actually make a difference.

Tari is and Editor of the Cochrane Library and Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, and was previously Co-Editor in Chief of Health Research Policy and Systems, a BMC journal published in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). She is also a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group to the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research; an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute; a Senior Research Fellow at 3ir and a member of the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Ethics Committee. 

Contact details:
T:            03 9903 8145
E:           tari.turner@monash.edu
Days:     Mon-Fri