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Who is Iain Chalmers?
Sir Iain Chalmers is a Britishhealthservices researcher, one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, and coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, whichincludes the James Lind Library and James Lind Alliance.
Chalmers qualified in medicine in the mid-1960s, and then practised as a clinician for seven years in the United Kingdom and the Gaza Strip.
In the mid-1970s, he became a full-time health services researcher with a particular interest in assessing the effects of health care. Between 1978 and 1992, he directed the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford.
These projects were well received, and the NationalHealthServiceResearch and DevelopmentProgramme then extended the approach to otherareas of health care.
In 1992, Chalmers was appointeddirector of the UKCochrane Centre. Subsequently, he becamefoundingeditor of the James Lind Library, whichdocuments the history and evolution of fair trials of treatments, and helped to establish the James Li