If other, please explain Cochrane Mexico UNAM Group: 2025 Activity Report

I. Legal ratification of the collaboration agreement between Cochrane Mexico UNAM, the Cochrane Iberoamerica Centre, and the Cochrane Iberoamerican Collaboration Association
This collaboration ratification will consolidate a strategic alliance to promote evidence-based medicine between Mexico and the Iberoamerican region. The present agreement was signed by the Cochrane Iberoamerica Research Centre, based at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau–Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), by the following researchers and faculty members:
Cochrane Iberoamerica Research Centre:
• Mr. Gerard Urrútia Cuchí: Director, Cochrane Iberoamerica Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
• Mr. Xavier Bonfíl Cosp: President, Cochrane Iberoamerican Collaboration Association, Barcelona, Spain.
UNAM Rectorate:
• Dr. Patricia Dolores Dávila Aranda: Secretary General, UNAM.
• Dr. Ana Carolina Sepúlveda Vildósola: Director, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM.
• Dr. Patricia Elena Clark Peralta: Director, Cochrane Mexico UNAM.
Official work plans:
• Faculty of Medicine, UNAM
• Higher School of Studies Iztacala, UNAM
• Faculty of Dentistry, UNAM
• LEO Program, General Directorate of Libraries and Digital Information Services, UNAM
II. Services and website:
We continue offering the “Personalized Consultations” service focused on research methodology, systematic reviews, and research with a gender perspective, supported by intra- and inter-institutional collaborations. The service has a physical office within the Library System facilities since August 2024, and is promoted on the following websites:
• Faculty of Medicine Digital Medical Library (http://www.facmed.unam.mx/bmd/)
• Library System (http://www.facmed.unam.mx/bibliotecas/asesorias.php)
• Cochrane UNAM website: www.cochrane.unam.mx
III. Productivity Published articles and/or book chapters:
• Cruz-Priego GA, Araiza-Nava B, Méndez-Sánchez L, Vargas-Chanes D, Clark P. Predictive capacity of fracture risk assessment tools: overview of systematic reviews. Osteoporos Int. 2025 Sep;36(9):1535-1544. doi:10.1007/s00198-025-07642-7. Epub 2025 Sep 8. PMID: 40921865.
• Bremer A, Clark P, Méndez-Sánchez L, García-de la Torre G. Atypical femoral fractures in a Mexican cohort of children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta. Trajectory analysis. Acta Ortop Mex. 2025;39(6):363-368. https://dx.doi.org/10.35366/121814
• Book chapter: Chapter 17 — Osteoimmunology: A Science in Constant Evolution. Authors: Patricia Clark & Lucía Méndez-Sánchez. Pages 96–100. In Immunology for Rheumatologists. Mariana Rull, Diana Gómez, Daniel Xavier Xibillé. 2025. Editorial Permanyer. ISBN-10: 8410072289
IV. Cochrane methodology supervision and dissemination Theses supervised (PNPC UNAM)
• Doctoral level, Principal supervisor
o Institution: UNAM, Graduate Program in Health Sciences
o Student: Berenice Araiza Nava
o Degree awarded: December 4, 2025
o Thesis title: Effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions for recovery of functional capacity in patients with fragility hip fracture: an overview of systematic reviews
• Master’s level, Principal supervisor
o Institution: UNAM, Graduate Program in Health Sciences
o Student: Aracelí López Nepomuceno
o Degree awarded: November 6, 2025
o Thesis title: Frequency of sarcopenia at time of diagnosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in Mexican adults at a tertiary-care hospital: a pilot study

Participation in supervisory committees
Providing methodological guidance on research protocols for students enrolled in the Doctorate in Health Sciences, Master’s and Doctorate Program in Medical, Dental and Health Sciences, Clinical Epidemiology field Semesters 2026-1 and 2026-2:
• Nayely Reyes Noriega — Candidate approved for Doctor of Science, student
• Berenice Monserrat Román Calleja — Candidate approved for Doctor of Science, student
• Adriana Griselda Cruz Priego — Candidate approved for Doctor of Science, student

V. Diploma courses, courses and workshops delivered in 2025 Faculty of Medicine, UNAM Course-workshop: Standardization in Evidence-Based Medicine and Systematic Reviews (Cochrane and non-Cochrane), delivered on November 22, 2025. Ocaranza Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM. Attendance: 73 students and faculty from health sciences (medical trainees, chemists, dentists, epidemiologists, researchers, etc.)

We benefited from the valuable interinstitutional collaboration of the following faculty:
• Faculty of Medicine — PhD Lucia Méndez Sánchez
• Faculty of Medicine — MSc Guadalupe Vanessa Carolina Gutiérrez Hernández
• Faculty of Medicine — Dr. Guadalupe S. García de la Torre
• Higher School of Studies Iztacala — MSc Silvana Mashenka Robles
• Higher School of Studies Iztacala — MSc Heber Gerzayn Oviedo
• Faculty of Dentistry — MSc Luis Fernando González
• Faculty of Dentistry — MSc Alberto Mimila Cortez
Collaboration with the Graduate Unit in Medical, Dental and Health Sciences:
• Diploma in Health Sciences; module: Information searching and evidence-based medicine (30 hours)
• Diploma in Medical Sciences; module: Information searching (10 hours)
• Diploma in Dental Sciences; module: Information searching (30 hours)
Scientific strengthening and consolidation, participation in scientific evaluation committees (January 2019 to February 2025)
1. Participation in the admission and project evaluation committees for applicants to the Master’s and Doctorate in Health Sciences, Clinical Epidemiology field, June 2025.
VI. National and international science dissemination:
1. Foro Nacional para la Modernización del sector salud 2025. Plenary: “AI as the infrastructure of clinical reasoning.” National Forum for the Modernization of the Health Sector 2025 (November 18–19, 2025).

2. Speaker, Bone Health Course (National College of Orthopedics 2025): “Methodologies for establishing Fracture Liaison Services” (virtual).
3. Contributor to the podcast publication: “Which oral or injected medicines work best to treat a skin disease called plaque psoriasis?”, translated by Yasmín García of the Cochrane Iberoamerica Centre and narrated by Lucía Méndez Sánchez of the Cochrane Associated Centre at the National Autonomous University of Mexico: https://www.cochrane.org/es/podcasts/10.1002/14651858.CD011535.pub5
4. Keynote lecture: “AI: tool, not solution,” at Simón Bolívar University, March 12, 2025.
5. Keynote lecture: “Health research: Artificial Intelligence as a tool and not a solution,” at the Federico Gómez National Children’s Hospital (Hospital Infantil de México), February 18, 2025, which was broadcast live on the institution’s social media. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CT6nNspCx/