Tamara Kredo

A/Prof. Tamara Kredo cares about access to health and social care interventions that are chosen on the basis of the best available evidence. She is a medical doctor and specialist in clinical pharmacology and holds the position of Chief Specialist Scientist at Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council. She is an Associate Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University in both the Department of Medicine (clinical pharmacology) and Department of Global Health (epidemiology and biostatistics) and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town’s, School of Public Health and Family Medicine. She is dedicated to the field of evidence-based healthcare practice and training, rational therapeutics and clinical practice guidelines. She is involved in research about the quality and content of clinical practice guidelines in southern Africa. She is also currently involved in conducting reviews on COVID-19 treatments informing national guidelines for the South African Department of Health. She has fulfilled several leadership roles including being Deputy Director of the Centre; co-directing Cochrane Africa, and as co-lead of the South African GRADE Network. She has been on several strategic and advisory committees including being a member of the National Essential Medicines List Committee. In 2020 she was elected as a Board member to Cochrane’s Governing Board.