My mission is working together to provide the best evidence and to help people to make well informed decisions about health and health care.
Miranda Langendam ( Assistant professor and Principle Investigator Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC) is an epidemiologist with a keen interest in evidence-based medicine and methods research. After obtaining her MSc at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1992) she was affiliated to the Institute of Public Health of Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, the Public Health Service Amsterdam (PhD in HIV/AIDS research, 2000), the National Health Care Institute (Zorginstituut Nederland) and Cochrane Netherlands. Since 2008 she has been affiliated to Amsterdam UMC. Her research line focusses on developing, evaluating, and implementing methods for evidence synthesis, in particular systematic reviews and clinical and public health guidelines. The field of ‘guidelineology’ is an exciting and relatively new field of methods research, aimed at using the best available evidence to make informed health and health care decisions, and connecting epidemiology, medical decision making and quality improvement.
The aim of Miranda’s work is to improve the quality and usability of systematic reviews and health care guidelines, and to reduce research waste. She is executive board member of the GRADE working group and an active member of the Guidelines International Network.
She enjoys teaching, supervising and mentoring.