Dr Tamara Kredo of Cochrane SA has been acknowledged by the South African Medical Research Council Women in Science campaign as part of Women’s Month. 

Tamara has fulfilled leadership roles at Cochrane SA since 2010 as Deputy Director of the Centre and, more recently, co-directing Cochrane Africa, which aims to expand Cochrane’s work in sub-Saharan Africa. Among many highlights she is co-lead of the SA GRADE Network; was a member of the Centre Directors Executive (now Geographic Groups); was a co-opted Trustee of the Guidelines International Network Governing Board; a member of the Cochrane Nutrition Advisory Board; and, is on the Advisory Board for Cochrane Sweden. She has also held leadership positions in many strategic and advisory committees including serving as the organising committee chair for the Global Evidence Summit in 2017.

Her recent highlights include leading the development of methods for conducting rapid evidence syntheses on essential medicines for national COVID-19 guidelines and contributing to the national guidelines writing group. 

Internationally, Dr Kredo is part of the team conducting a much-awaited Cochrane review on the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for prevention and management of COVID-19 and contributing to the COVID Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END). The latter is a global network of evidence-synthesis, technology assessment, and guideline-development communities with long track records of supporting decision makers locally, nationally, and internationally.