Mrs Booth Andrew (United Kingdom)

Teaching in :

• Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal
• Public Health and Informatics
• Maximising Usefulness of Secondary Data Sources

Background :

• Andrew Booth is an information professional/lecturer/researcher with experience of a wide range of aspects of evidence based practice. His fifteen years' experience as a health information professional has included the King's Fund Centre where he managed three national information services and, since November 1994, the School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield where he is Director of Information Resources. His current brief is to develop an information resource to support evidence-based health-care both within the University of Sheffield and Trent Region.

  Andrew co-ordinates a module on Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal for a Masters in Health Services Research and Technology Assessment and he is currently developing a Masters in Health informatics in conjunction with the Department of Information Studies and the School of Nursing and Midwifery, both at the University of Sheffield.

  Andrew has researched and published extensively on literature searching and critically appraising the evidence and Andrew's recent research outputs include three published systematic reviews for the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme, with a further two in progress. He is the compiler of the ScHARR Guide to Evidence Based Practice and the World Wide Web resource, Netting the Evidence - used by the Cochrane Library as an authoritative starting-point for evidence based practice.

  Andrew's extramural activities include being the Chair of the LINC Health Panel Research Working Party where he is developing methods of systematic review and critical appraisal for health librarianship. He is on the Steering Groups of EPI-Centre: the Centre for Evidence Based Health Promotion, University of London, and ARIF; the Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility at the University of Birmingham.