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Dr Anna Mae Scott

Researcher in Evidence Synthesis

Anna Mae  joined Oxford in November 2023, to lead evidence synthesis and patient and public engagement projects focusing on demand for health and social care, as part of the REAL Demand Unit at the Nuffield Department of Population Health. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University (Gold Coast, Australia), a Research Fellow at the Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney, and led a study on shared decision-making in clinics in Warsaw, Poland.  

Anna Mae’s research interests focus primarily on evidence synthesis conduct and methodology. She  co-invented a method to accelerate the conduct of systematic reviews from their current average of 66 weeks to approximately two weeks, without sacrificing methodological quality. The 2weekSR (“2 week systematic review”) initiative – which she lead – focuses on the development of automation tools and new processes to vastly accelerate the completion time to approximately 1-4 weeks for all types of evidence syntheses.   

In the area of patient and public engagement, her work focuses mainly on integrating the patients’ and the community members’ views and participation into research topic prioritisation, conduct of evidence syntheses, clinical decision-making and health technology assessment processes.