Zachary Munn

Zachary Munn

Professor Zachary Munn is an advocate for evidence-based healthcare and for ensuring policy and practice is based on the best available evidence. Professor Munn is the Director of Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI) in the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide; Head of the Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative (ESTI); Founding Director of the JBI Adelaide GRADE Centre; Chair of the Guidelines International Network (GIN) and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator. He is a systematic review, evidence implementation and guideline development methodologist.  

To enable evidence-based decisions, we need to ensure that the 'evidence' is trustworthy. As such, Zachary advances the methods of systematic review, guidelines and implementation science and conduacts methodological research. He has been involved in the conduct of dozens of systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, evidence implementation and health services research projects. He is the convenor/chair of four methodology committees; Systematic Reviews of Prevalence/Incidence, Systematic reviews of Interventions, Scoping Reviews Methodology, Grading evidence, and Predatory Publishing Practices. He is an in-demand invited speaker at numerous conferences internationally, presenting on clinical practice guideline development, implementation science, systematic reviews and evidence-based healthcare. He is on the editorial board for the journal JBI Evidence Implementation and is an Associate Editor for BMC Medical Research Methodology. He has published hundreds of papers in peer reviewed journals and authored multiple books/book chapters.