Category
Dr
Farhad
Shokraneh
Evidence Synthesis Manager
Research Theme
Malaria
Visceral leishmaniasis
COVID19
Schistosomiasis & STHs
Chagas
WWARN
Dr Farhad Shokraneh has 20 years of experience and a PhD in Evidence Synthesis. He joined IDDO in October 2023 as Evidence Synthesis Manager.
Previously, he has worked at the University of Nottingham, King's College London, University College London, UCLH, and Cambridge University in similar roles. He has led teams to deliver projects to clients such as WHO, UN, UNICEF, FDA, UK NIHR, Cochrane, AWMF, and NICE.
As a passionate methodologist and change maker, Farhad is a co-author of the Cochrane Handbook, an editor of Systematic Reviews journal and has designed the first and most sensitive search strategy for COVID-19 literature and the first living search strategy and coined concepts such as 'Search-Resistant Concepts', 'Search Pyramid', 'Living Search Strategy', and 'Iterative Systematic Reviews'.
All Publications
Diagnostic test accuracy of simplified algorithms for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever: a systematic review
Providencia, R., Aali, G., Zhu, F., Katairo, T., Ahmad, M., Bray, J., Pelone, F., Marijon, E., Cassandra, M., Celermajer, D., & Shokraneh, F. (2025). Communications Medicine, 5(1), 348.
Investigating the relationship between Pfkelch13 mutations and response to artemisinin-based treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria: a protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis
van Wyk, S., Dahal, P., Vouvoungui, C., Ayuen, D., Shokraneh, F., Soma, A., Watson, J., Guerin, P., & Barnes, K. (2025). BMJ Open, 15(7), e100251.
Stop searching and you will find it: Search-Resistant Concepts in systematic review searches.
Shokraneh, F. (2025). BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 30(2), 134-137.
Mental Health Services for Serious Mental Illness: Scoping Review of Randomised Controlled Trials.
Roson Rodriguez, P., Chen, X., Arancibia, M., Madrid, E., Shokraneh, F., Adams, C., & Franco, J. (2025). Nursing Open, 12(1), e70100.
Local anaesthetic to reduce injection pain in patients who are prescribed intramuscular benzathine penicillin G: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Pelone, F., Kwok, B., Ahmed, S., Kilic, Y., Ali, S., Ahmed, N., Ahmad, M., Bray, J., Shokraneh, F., Cassandra, M., Celermajer, D., Marijon, E., & Providencia, R. (2024). EClinicalMedicine, 76, 102817.
Outcomes Associated with Arrest for Domestic Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Connor, R., Johnson, L., Bridgeman, M., Shokraneh, F., & Hakobyan, B. (2024). Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 15248380241284777.
Long-term antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of rheumatic fever recurrence and progression to rheumatic heart disease.
Bray, J., Thompson, S., Seitler, S., Ali, S., Yiu, J., Salehi, M., Ahmad, M., Pelone, F., Gashau, H., Shokraneh, F., Ahmed, N., Cassandra, M., Marijon, E., Celermajer, D., & Providencia, R. (2024). The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 9, CD015779.
Handheld echocardiography for the screening and diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease: a systematic review to inform WHO guidelines.
Providência, R., Aali, G., Zhu, F., Katairo, T., Ahmad, M., Bray, J., Pelone, F., Khanji, M., Marijon, E., Cassandra, M., Celermajer, D., & Shokraneh, F. (2024). The Lancet. Global Health, 12(6), e983 - e994.
Penicillin Allergy Testing and Delabeling for Patients Who Are Prescribed Penicillin: A Systematic Review for a World Health Organization Guideline.
Providencia, R., Aali, G., Zhu, F., Leas, B., Orrell, R., Ahmad, M., Bray, J., Pelone, F., Nass, P., Marijon, E., Cassandra, M., Celermajer, D., & Shokraneh, F. (2024). Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 66(2), 223-240.
Psychological interventions for mood and cognition after stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A protocol for an umbrella review
Kontou, E., Shokraneh, F., das Nair, R., Quinn, T., Leonardi-Bee, J., Thorpe, N., Clifford, N., Williams, M., Wydera, S., & Drummond, A. (2024). F1000Research, 13, 199.
Psychological interventions for mood and cognition after stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A protocol for an umbrella review
Kontou, E., Shokraneh, F., das Nair, R., Quinn, T., Leonardi-Bee, J., Thorpe, N., Clifford, N., Williams, M., Wydera, S., & Drummond, A. (2024). In F1000Res.
Routine Antenatal Echocardiography in High-Prevalence Areas of Rheumatic Heart Disease: A WHO-Guideline Systematic Review.
Seitler, S., Ahmad, M., Ahuja, S., Ahmed, M., Stevenson, A., Schreiber, T., Sodhi, P., Diyasena, H., Ogbeide, O., Arularooran, S., Shokraneh, F., Cassandra, M., Marijon, E., Celermajer, D., Khanji, M., & Providencia, R. (2024). Global Heart, 19(1), 39.
Psychological interventions for mood and cognition after stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A protocol for an umbrella review.
Kontou, E., Shokraneh, F., das Nair, R., Quinn, T., Leonardi-Bee, J., Thorpe, N., Clifford, N., Williams, M., Wydera, S., & Drummond, A. (2024). F1000Research, 13, 199.
Costs and cost-effectiveness of treatment setting for children with wasting, oedema and growth failure/faltering: a systematic review
Mdege, N., Masuku, S., Musakwa, N., Chisala, M., Tingum, E., Boachie, M., & Shokraneh, F. (2023). PLoS Global Public Health, 3(11).
Child and adolescent mental health and psychosocial support interventions: an evidence and gap map of low- and middle-income countries
Yu, R., Perera, C., Sharma, M., Ipince, A., Bakrania, S., Shokraneh, F., Sepulveda, J., & Anthony, D. (2023). Campbell Systematic Reviews, 19(3).
In-hospital mortality rate in subaxial cervical spinal cord injury patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Sadeghi-Naini, M., Yousefifard, M., Ghodsi, Z., Azarhomayoun, A., Kermanian, F., Golpayegani, M., Alizadeh, S., Hosseini, M., Shokraneh, F., Komlakh, K., Vaccaro, A., Jiang, F., Fehlings, M., & Rahimi-Movaghar, V. (2023). Acta Neurochirurgica, 165(9), 2675-2688.
Effect of fentanyl for preterm infants on mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Sudo, Y., Seki-Nagasawa, J., Kajikawa, D., Kuratsuji, G., Haga, M., Shokraneh, F., Yamaji, N., Ota, E., & Namba, F. (2023). Neonatology, 120(3), 287-294.
Implementing patient-centred outcome measures in palliative care clinical practice for adults (IMPCOM): Protocol for an update systematic review of facilitators and barriers
Antunes, B., Barclay, S., Kuhn, I., Eagar, K., Bausewein, C., Murtagh, F., Etkind, S., Bowers, B., Dixon, S., Lovick, R., Harding, R., Higginson, I., & Shokraneh, F. (2023). F1000Research, 12, 224.
Implementing patient-centred outcome measures in palliative care clinical practice for adults (IMPCOM): protocol for an update systematic review of facilitators and barriers
Antunes, B., Barclay, S., Kuhn, I., Eagar, K., Bausewein, C., Murtagh, F., Etkind, S., Bowers, B., Dixon, S., Lovick, R., Harding, R., Higginson, I., & Shokraneh, F. (2023). F1000Research, 12.
Community interventions for anxiety and depression in adults and young people: a systematic review
Buechner, H., Toparlak, S., Ostinelli, E., Shokraneh, F., Nicholls-Mindlin, J., Cipriani, A., Geddes, J., & Syed Sheriff, R. (2023). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 57(9), 1223-1242.
Immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapies for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies
Raaphorst, J., Gullick, N., Pipitone, N., Shokraneh, F., Brassington, R., Ali, S., & Gordon, P. (2023). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023(1).
Gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to serum per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: A scoping review to evaluate the need for a new systematic review.
Aali, G., Porter, A., Hoffmann, S., Longnecker, M., & Shokraneh, F. (2023). F1000Research, 12, 1595.
Gestational diabetes mellitus in relation to serum per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: A scoping review to evaluate the need for a new systematic review
Aali, G., Porter, A., Hoffmann, S., Longnecker, M., & Shokraneh, F. (2023). In F1000Res.
Building a fatigue research collaborative: A scientometrics, topic and gap analysis
Aali, G., Ainley, R., Ambler, J., Peckmezian, T., & Shokraneh, F. (2023). In F1000Res.
Recommendations for the development and use of imaging test sets to investigate the test performance of artificial intelligence in health screening
Chalkidou, A., Shokraneh, F., Kijauskaite, G., Taylor-Phillips, S., Halligan, S., Wilkinson, L., Glocker, B., Garrett, P., Denniston, A., Mackie, A., & Seedat, F. (2022). Lancet Digital Health, 4(12), e899 - e905.