Philippe Ravaud

Biography

Philippe Ravaud is Professor of Epidemiology at Paris Descartes University and adjunct professor at the Mailman School of Public Health (Columbia University, USA). He is the director of the INSERM-Paris Descartes Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Center, Cochrane France and the French EQUATOR center.

Research Interest

 Philippe’s primary focus is methodological research to assess treatments in chronic diseases. His research activities are structured around the following themes: non-pharmacological treatments, innovative design of trials, evidence synthesis, burden of treatment, as well as research on research (and especially interventional research on research). He is working on meta-analyses, network meta-analyses, and more recently living network meta-analyses and is interested in questioning the methods used at all the steps of a systematic review.  He also conducts research on new methods of meta analyses (MAs), for example, methodological issues and quality of reporting in network MAs. He has recently proposed a new concept of evidence synthesis entitled ‘live cumulative network MA’ - defined as a global continuously updated evidence synthesis involving all available treatments for a specific condition. He is among the few scientists with strong experience in performing randomized trials and systematic reviews of interventions to change physician practices.