The Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field seeks to support the production of review of health promotion and public health interventions that are of high quality and contains information that is relevant and useable to practitioners and policy makers. In order to fulfill this obligation the Field has identified and implemented several strategies to move forward. Our efforts have been informed by the comments and criticisms received by current and potential users of Cochrane reviews within this area and from reviewers of health promotion and public health topics. This poster presentation will outline the strategies the Field has developed in order to best meet the needs of all stakeholders. These include:

• A scoping exercise to identify past and current scope of Cochrane reviews and titles of health promotion and public health topics
• Methods to determine the priorities for future Cochrane reviews of health promotion and public health topics
• Identification of the concerns and criticisms of Cochrane reviews from within the health promotion and public health professions and the expressed and implied barriers to stakeholders producing and/or using these reviews to guide policy and practice
• The development of guidelines tailored to the needs to reviewers of health promotion and public health topics, as an addendum to the Cochrane Handbook
• Strategies to work with relevant CRGs to ensure the referee and editorial directives and processes for these type of reviews reflect the needs and concerns of potential end users