SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS WORKSHOP
iGHP and Department of Global Health Policy, University of Tokyo will organize atwo-day systematic review and meta-analysis workshop. Prof. Shahjahan Khan,
University of Southern Queensland and Dr. Mizanur Rahman, assistant professor
from the dept of Global Health Policy at the University of Tokyo will facilitate thisworkshop. Due to exponentially growing scientific literature, it is critical tosynthesize reliable research for evidence-based decision making. Systematicreviews play a vital role for providing updated and reliable synthesis of establishedevidence. This two-day workshop covers from fundamental understanding toproviding a step-by-step guidance on how to independently conduct a systematic
review and meta-analysis. You are all encouraged to attend.

Date & Time

September 27 and 28, 2018, 10:00-16:30

Venue

Seminar room, 3rd Floor, Ito International research center,
University of Tokyo 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
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Language

EnglishFeeFree (pre-registration is required)

Please bring laptop and writing materials with you.

Programs (tentative)

Day 1)

Overview and literature search

10:00-12:00: ••

12:00-13:00

Overview of systematic reviews
Search strategy and screening Endnote
Lunch break (Lunch will be provided. Please let us know any foodrestriction if you have)

13:00-16:30 ••Introduction to meta-analysis
Data extraction, input and cleaning Meta-analysis using Stata(basic)•Day 2)

Assignment (data entry)

Advanced meta-analysis

10:00-12:15 ••Meta-analysis using Stata (advance) Publication bias assessment
Sub-group and meta-regression analysis

12:15-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-16:45 •Dose-response meta-analysis•

Quality assessment•

Reporting system

Report on “Systematic review and Meta-analysis Workshop” (September 27 – 28, 2018)

The Workshop on Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, organized by iGHP andDepartment of Global Health Policy (GHP) of the University of Tokyo, was held from27 to 28th of September 2018. The workshop had over 40 participants fromacademia and research institutes, NGOs and the private sector.
This hands-on workshop, which was held at the beautiful Ito International ResearchCenter of the University of Tokyo campus, introduced methods on systematic review
and meta-analysis from how to conduct your search strategies all the way to anintroduction on various statistical models.
With a special guest lecturer, Professor Shahjahan Khan of the University ofSouthern Queensland in Australia, the participants received an easy to understandlectures on the statistical concepts used behind systematic review and metaanalysis.

In addition, Dr Mizanur Rahman of Tokyo University provided step-by-step
instructions on how to conduct analysis through his interactive sessions. The
participants conducted their own analysis on Stata using a practice dataset. With
the clear instructions by Dr. Rahman, even first-time users of Stata were able toperform meta-analysis and meta-regression to create a graph such as the one
pictured below.

The workshop was highly received by all the participants. Some even left commentsof how they couldn’t believe such high-quality workshop could possibly be offeredfor free.