Dr Tamara Kredo is a specialist in clinical pharmacology and holds the position of senior specialist scientist at the Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council. Kredo has a special interest in evidence-informed healthcare decision-making, rational therapeutics and clinical practice guidelines. She is involved in work about the quality and content of clinical practice guidelines in southern Africa. She is also currently involved in conducting reviews on various COVID-19 treatments informing national guidelines for the South African Department of Health. She has fulfilled several leadership roles including being Deputy Director of the Centre; co-directing Cochrane Africa, and as co-lead of SA GRADE Network. She has been on several strategic and advisory committees including acting as organising committee chair of the Global Evidence Summit in 2017. In 2020 she was elected as a Board member to Cochrane’s Governing Board.