Enrich our evidence with your lived experience
Consumers play a vital role role in Cochrane. You are users of Cochrane evidence and the people we want to benefit from it. We want to support you and hear your voices. When you’re ready to try it, we’d love to involve you in producing and sharing our evidence.
Excellent public involvement is an essential part of health and social care research and improves the quality and impact of research. You can play a vitally important role in making sure that evidence addresses important questions and is produced, presented and made available in a way that’s useful when people are making difficult decisions about healthcare.
Below you will find many different ways to get involved with Cochrane as a consumer.
Join the global community of Cochrane ConsumersThe Cochrane Consumer Network is a large and growing community of over 2,500 patients and members of the public in 117 countries across the world. You can find out more about the Consumer Network and join us here. |  |
Work with world-leading researchers by joining Cochrane EngageCochrane Engage is our software platform that connects people who need help with their reviews with people who have the time and experience to help. Joining and setting up your profile in Cochrane Engage is easy and then you can search for tasks that match your interests and skills. Consumers can become a member of an author team, join an advisory board, help identify important research questions, and much more! Find opportunities for consumer involvement on Cochrane Engage. |  |
Become a consumer peer reviewerYou can read and comment on systematic reviews and protocols on topics you have experience of, in order to make sure they’re relevant, accessible and sensitive to other consumers like you. For example, contributing to plain language summaries of health evidence. Find requests for consumer peer reviewers on Cochrane Engage. |  |
Support the work of Cochrane's global communityYou can get in touch directly with a Cochrane group, field or network in the area of your interest to see if there are opportunities for you to contribute. You can find a full list of Geographic Groups here, Review Groups here, Thematic Groups here, Methods Groups here, and Fields here. |  |
Join the citizen scientists of Cochrane CrowdAnyone can join this collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence so that we can make better healthcare decisions. You can volunteer to carry out short tasks and you’ll be walked through everything you need to know. Just sixty seconds a day could be really helpful! Visit Cochrane Crowd. |  |
Help translate Cochrane evidenceTranslating Cochrane content into other languages is a priority for us. For more information about becoming a volunteer translator, please visit this page. |  |