Rebecca Ryan

Biography

Rebecca Ryan is a Research Fellow at the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia. She is also the Deputy Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group.

Research Interest

she leads editorial policy development, developing and maintaining author resources to assist those undertaking complex intervention reviews, supporting quality assurance mechanisms across the editorial life of reviews and providing editorial input and leadership for reviews that span the broad subject scope of the Group.   She has experience in various working parties and pilot schemes within Cochrane and in projects outside the organisation, including those focussing on evidence-based strategies to support consumers' use of medicines, communication for childhood vaccination, risk communication for rare diseases, and developing the evidence base for communication with people with multimorbidity.   She is particularly interested in developing and promoting the use of systematic synthesis methods for complex interventions and in developing approaches to meet the challenges of applying rigorous methods to complex areas, particularly those to enable people to more effectively participate in their own health care.  She has led and contributed as an author to several reviews and is a contributing author on the two new Cochrane Handbook chapters in preparation on synthesis methods.