Philippe Ravaud (Université Paris Descartes) will give a talk on “Generating better evidence to guide the peer review system evolution” at the PEERE Workshop in Split on 18 June 2015.

Philippe is Director of the French Cochrane Centre. His research activities during the last years have been structured around the following 4 main themes :

• Evaluation of nonpharmacological treatments
• Development and validation of endpoints
• Meta-analyses and network meta-analyses
• Interpretation and communication of research results

His publication record includes more than 280 peer-reviewed papers, including more than 28 papers in the “big 6 journals” (New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal and PLoS Medicine).