Cochrane First Aid

In the visual below, you can find Cochrane First Aid’s most important achievements of 2025 for each of their main strategic goals. Have a look at the full annual report here. 

Within the Cochrane Acute and Emergency Care Thematic Group, Cochrane First Aid has contributed to the development of a panel dedicated to community engagement in the production and dissemination of Cochrane evidence.

Below, you can find Cochrane First Aid’s most important achievements of 2024 for each of the 7 main strategic goals. For the full annual report, visit the Cochrane First Aid website. 

As part of the strategic goal on ‘Positioning ourselves in Cochrane’, Cochrane First Aid together with 3 Cochrane Review Groups and 1 other Cochrane Field successfully applied to become a new Thematic Group on Acute and Emergency Care. This partnership is designed to advance collaboration and research across this broad range of specialised topic areas, improve the quality and accessibility of evidence for healthcare providers in time-sensitive settings, and ultimately have substantial beneficial effects on patient’s lives.

Providing Cochrane evidence on first aid in easy-to-digest formats to everyone, including laypeople, is still one of the most important tasks for Cochrane First Aid. In 2023, more linguistic barriers were broken down: the Cochrane First Aid blogshots are now available in 13 languages. In addition, Cochrane First Aid started working on its two new strategic goals: facilitating primary research, and positioning themselves within Cochrane.

Below, you can find Cochrane First Aid’s most important achievements of 2023 for each of the 7 main strategic goals. For the full annual report, visit the Cochrane First Aid website.

In 2022, providing Cochrane evidence in easy-to-digest formats to everyone, including laypeople, has remained an important task for our colleagues who coordinate Cochrane First Aid (CFA). In addition, CFA has developed a new strategic plan for the upcoming 3 years, while navigating the uncertainty of the long-term strategic direction and organisational structure of Cochrane.

Below, you can find CFA’s most important achievements of 2022 for each of the 5 main strategic goals. For the full annual report, that also introduces the new strategic plan for 2023-2025, visit the CFA website.

Although we did not anticipate it in 2020, we found ourselves still living with the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2021. Providing reliable scientific evidence to everyone, including laypeople, in a timely manner, remained an important task for our colleagues who coordinate Cochrane First Aid (CFA). 

In addition, CFA has further promoted the importance of evidence-based first aid, both in the evidence and first aid communities. Below, you can find CFA’s most important achievements of 2021 for each of the 5 main strategic goals. For more information and the full annual report, visit the CFA website.

2020 has been a challenging year, mainly because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has emphasized the importance of providing reliable scientific evidence to everyone, including laypeople, in a timely manner. Cochrane First Aid feels proud to have contributed to this. Below, you can find their most important achievements of 2020 for each of their 5 main strategic goals. For more information and the full annual report, visit their website.