Cochrane Campbell Global Ageing Partnership and Cochrane Portugal recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This document strengthens their current collaboration, and aims at supporting further work to facilitate evidence-informed decision-making in the field of healthy ageing and longevity.
Although healthy ageing is a global challenge, cultural and contextual circumstances need to be considered when producing evidence products. Additionally, population ageing has evolved at varying paces around the world. Portugal is currently managing the societal challenges of a significantly aged population.
“Engaging with geographic groups offers excellent opportunities for developing fit-for purpose solutions. “said Monserrat Conde, Co-director and Field executive of Cochrane Campbell Global Ageing Partnership. “Working together with our colleagues at Cochrane Portugal will allow us to explore novel approaches, and integrate real world experiences from a context were ageing is a high priority. “
António Vaz Carneiro, Director of Cochrane Portugal, has several expectations for this partnership. “We believe that this type of cooperation sets the basis for increasing awareness and producing relevant high-quality evidence in the field of ageing, and we are looking forward to working together to achieve these goals.”
Both groups look forward to the next steps of their collaboration.
About Cochrane Portugal
Cochrane Portugal (CP) aims to represent Cochrane at national level. CP mission is to promote the implementation and dissemination of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews) as well as to collaborate with the various stakeholders in health: health professionals, researchers, patient associations, government bodies. Cochrane Portugal currently has three associated centers located at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universities of Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto and two affiliated centers located at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Beira Interior and at the National School of Public Health at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.