Dr Julian Hirt Research Fellow

Dr Julian Hirt, joined the research group in 2021 and co-coordinated the COVID-evidence and the PragMeta project, both SNSF-funded living public databases of randomized trials assessing interventions to treat or prevent COVID-19 (COVID-evidence) and randomized trials with different degrees of pragmatism (PragMeta). Julian is mainly performing evidence syntheses, Delphi studies, and meta-research within a team of national and international collaborators to inform both evidence-based healthcare and research. Julian co-developed RefHunter, a platform for systematic literature search, and the TARCiS statement that provides guidance on terminology, application, and reporting of citation searching. He is a core team member of the Library of Guidance for Health Scientists (LIGHTS) and the STandards for the development REseArch Methods guidance (STREAM) initiative and an advisory board member of the Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative. He is also a Professor in Evidence Synthesis at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in St Gallen where he is mainly teaching and working on evidence syntheses and meta-research in the field of evidence-based healthcare. Visit Julian's ResearchGate profile to get a comprehensive overview of his scientific output and teaching topics.

julian.hirt@usb.ch