WHO’s Guideline Development for Nutrition
DESCRIPTION
WHO follows a guideline development process, described in detail in the WHO Handbook for Guideline Development (2nd edition), overseen by the Guidelines Review Committee (GRC) established by the Director-General in 2007. The WHO Guidelines Review Committee ensures that WHO guidelines are of a high methodological quality, developed using a transparent and explicit process, and are informed on high-quality systematic reviews of the evidence using state-of–the art systematic search strategies, synthesis, quality assessments, and methods.
The WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development has worked with the Cochrane editorial office and various groups within the Cochrane to produce systematic reviews for WHO nutrition guidelines since 2010. This allows for faster and prioritized completion of systematic reviews on the effects of interventions that contribute towards guideline development.
In order to further increase capacity in systematic review methodology among nutrition scientists and practitioners, WHO, in partnership with UNITAR, has developed the e-learning course WHO’s Guideline Development for Nutrition.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe WHO’s development process for nutrition guidelines;
- Use the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and evaluation (GRADE) approach;
- Describe Cochrane’s work and methodology;
- Discuss the role of WHO’s Guidelines Review Committee;
- Recall the main events of the nutrition guidelines development over the past ten years.
