A workshop was presented by Cochrane Nutrition in Cape Town on 31 August 2016 as part of World Nutrition 2016, a conference organised by the World Public Health Nutrition Association.

The workshop aimed to build participants’ awareness of and capacity to understand evidence-informed public health nutrition (PHN) guideline development, with an emphasis on the role and application of systematic reviews (SRs). The workshop covered the technical aspects, methods and standards used for developing guidelines using an evidence-informed process, contrasting this with conventional guideline development approaches, and focusing on the role and application of SRs in the evidence-informed process. The presenters were from South Africa and Australia.