Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Global Health
Anyone can summarize a few papers; a systematic review is evidence you can defend. Learn to search, appraise and pool studies into a real, publishable meta-analysis.
Track Description
A systematic review is a workflow, not a literature summary. This course takes you through all five stages: framing the question and registering a protocol, searching every source, screening and appraising studies, pooling them, then computing a real meta-analysis in R and writing it up to PRISMA standards. You finish with a registered-quality protocol and a forest plot you could submit.
Courses in this track
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1
Framing a Systematic Review: Question and Protocol
Every trustworthy review starts here: a sharp question and a protocol you register before you begin. This is Level 1 of the "Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Global Health" course from ECORM Pathway
9 chapters
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2
Systematic Literature Searching
A review is only as good as its search. Find every relevant study, including the ones hiding in grey literature. This is Level 2 of the "Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Global Health" course from ECORM Pathway
8 chapters
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3
Screening, Data Extraction and Risk of Bias
Turn a pile of search results into clean, appraised data you can actually trust. This is Level 3 of the "Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Global Health" course from ECORM Pathway.
10 chapters
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4
Meta-analysis Essentials
Understand what a meta-analysis actually does before you run one, so you never pool studies that should not be combined. This is Level 4 of the "Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Global Health" course from ECORM Pathway.
6 chapters
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5
Running and Reporting a Meta-analysis in R
Run a real meta-analysis in R, then interpret it and write it up to PRISMA standards. This is Level 5 of the "Systematic Reviews & Meta-analysis in Global Health" course from ECORM Pathway.
6 chapters