Amanda Burls
Selected Publications
- Burls A, Cabello J B, Emparanza J I, Bayliss S, and Quinn T (2011) Oxygen therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Emerg Med J.
- Burls Amanda, Caron Lorraine, Cleret de Langavant Ghislaine, Dondorp Wybo, Harstall Christa, Pathak-Sen Ela, and Hofmann Bjorn (2011) Tackling ethical issues in health technology assessment: A proposed framework. Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 27(3):230-7.
- Mickan S, Burls A, and Glasziou P (2011) Patterns of 'leakage' in the utilisation of clinical guidelines: a systematic review. Postgrad Med J.
- Burls Amanda (2010) On the resuscitation of clinical freedom. BMC Health Serv Res, 10:184.
- Crilly Mike, Glasziou Paul, Heneghan Carl, Meats Emma, and Burls Amanda (2009) Does the current version of 'Tomorrow's Doctors' adequately support the role of evidence-based medicine in the undergraduate curriculum? Med Teach, 31(10):938-44.
| PA | Matt Penfold |
|---|---|
| Email (PA) | karen.rhodes@phc.ox.ac.uk |
| Tel (PA) | 01865 289295 |
| Department | Department of Primary Health Care |
Dr Amanda Burls
Amanda Burls is a public health physician. She is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Evidence-Based HealthCare (EBHC) at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (www.CEBM.net ). She directs the Oxford International Programme in Evidence-Base Health Care which includes a Masters and DPhil programme in EBHC (http://cpd.conted.ox.ac.uk/ebhc/msc.asp ). In her other role, as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow, in the Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford, she has set up and directs a novel internet-based research programme, the International Network for Knowledge about Wellbeing (ThinkWell), that aims to help the public (a) understand health information so they can make their own health decisions and (b) set up and participate in research studies (www.ThinkWell.eu ).
In her previous post she was a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health and Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the West Midlands Region. While at the University of Birmingham she founded the West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration (WMHTAC) and was its Director for ten years. WMHTAC is an NHS-funded unit that undertakes systematic reviews, research synthesis and economic evaluations of health technologies for the West Midlands regional and the UK national level NHS (e.g. for the NCCHTA programme and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)).
Prior to taking up her post in Birmingham Amanda Burls was Director of the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) in Oxford, a role she took up again in 2008 on her return to Oxford. She was one of the founders of the CASP International Network.
