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=== Funding partners ===
Cochrane receives funding from governments, supranational organizations, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, hospitals, and foundations, while avoiding funding from corporate interests. Primary government donors include the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Danish Health Authority, the Federal Ministry of Health (Germany), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Academic funders include McMaster University, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Kazan Federal University, and University of Copenhagen, among others. Funding from foundations includes the National Research Foundation (South Africa) and the Gerber Foundation.

== Public involvement ==
Cochrane involves patients and the public via community curation, to produce systematic reviews and other outputs. Tasks can be organised as 'entry level' or higher. Tasks include:

Joining a collaborative volunteer effort to help categorise and summarise healthcare evidence
Data extraction and risk of bias assessment
Translation of reviews into other languages
A recent systematic review of how people were involved in systematic reviews aimed to document the evidence-base relating to stakeholder involvement in systematic reviews and to use this evidence to describe how stakeholders have been involved in systematic reviews. Thirty per cent involved patients and/or carers.
While there has been some criticism of how Cochrane prioritises systematic reviews, a 2018 project involved people in helping identify research priorities to inform future Cochrane Reviews.
The representation of women as editors in Cochrane was found to be better than that of other organizations.

== See also ==

Campbell Collaboration
The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy
Evidence-based practice

== References ==

== External links ==
Official website 
Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group
Cochrane Neonatal Group