In this half-day course, experts from Brown’s School of Public Health will discuss:
- The role and value of systematic reviews, the basic steps involved in conducting a systematic review, and how they can be applied to public health and health policy;
- The major principles and techniques of statistical analysis of meta-analytic data with a focus on summary data from reports and individual data from studies; and
- Meta-analysis in the context of evidence-based science, with discussion around the basic principles of network meta-analysis and the validity of its assumptions, including the key role that potential effect modifiers play.
