WHO Guidelines development supported by Wolfson GB Fellow and IB Award Winner

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently published guidelines on parenting interventions to prevent maltreatment and enhance parent–child relationships with children aged 0–17 years, and Governing Body Fellow Prof. Frances Gardner along with DPhil student and former Wolfson Isaiah Berlin Award Winner Sophia Backhaus both played key roles in their development. 

Prof. Gardner and Ms Backhaus were responsible for the development and organisation of various products that are crucial parts of the Guidelines (e.g. Evidence reports, Evidence to decision tables, GRADE tables, etc.). 

Prof. Gardner led a team of researchers to conduct the underlying evidence synthesis that directly informed the development of all five recommendations presented in the Guidelines and Ms Backhaus played a major role in the systematic reviews (they are joint first author of the WHO Evidence reports), and Wolfson College Supernumerary Fellow Jamie Lachman also contributed to this report. Ms Backhaus was responsible for writing the final guideline document. 

WHO has recognized the hard work put in by Prof Gardner and Ms Backhaus in their acknowledgements: "WHO gratefully appreciates the overall organization and management of the evidence syntheses and preparation of the Evidence-to-Decision tables and GRADE rating tables that informed the guideline undertaken by Frances Gardner and Sophia Backhaus, University of Oxford.” 

You can read the full guidelines here.