Ana Marušić

Biography

Ana Marušić is Professor of Anatomy and Chair of the Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health at the University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia and holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.  Ana is the founder and Research Coordinator of Cochrane Croatia. She also founded the Croatian Centre for Global Health at the University of Split School of Medicine.  She was heavily involved with creating the policy of mandatory registration of clinical trials in public registries which helped change the legal regulation of clinical trials worldwide. She has received a number of awards for her research, most recently a Meritorious Award from the Council of Science Editors in 2016.

Research Interest

 She is the Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Global Health and President of the European Association of Science Editors.  She chairs the Research Committee of the World Association of Medical Editors. A researcher in biomedicine, Cochrane reviewer and journal editor, Ana has studied the quality of evidence and different methodological approaches to increase the reliability, transparency and integrity of research. Her most recent Cochrane Review on interventions to reduce research misconduct and increase research integrity demonstrated the need for more evidence on best methods to increase the trust in research and reduce waste in research.