Who we are
Meet the people behind the WHO Collaborating Centre. Our team combines expertise in qualitative evidence synthesis, methodology development and evidence-informed decision-making to support better policies, guidelines and practices globally.
Claire is Professor of Evidence-Based Practice at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Claire is also co-director of Cochrane Norway and has a particular interest in systematic reviews of qualitative evidence (also known as qualitative evidence syntheses). She led Cochrane’s first qualitative evidence synthesis and is co-founder of the GRADE-CERQual tool, which is used to assess confidence in findings from these reviews.
Claire has served as technical advisor on a number of World Health Organization guidelines, and has participated in the development of methods to support the inclusion of qualitative evidence in these guidelines. Claire regularly teaches WHO staff about the use of qualitative evidence in guideline processes.
Collaboration with NTNU
Our WHO Collaborative Centre works closely with the WHO Collaborative Centre based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
