Pablo Alonso is Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recerca Sant Pau, in Barcelona. He is also a collaborator of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Center.
He has been involved in guideline development for over 20 years, both at national and international level, leading the development and implementation of the methodological guidance used in the Spanish National Program of Guidelines from the Ministry of Health, where he was the former Director of its Scientific Committee. At the Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Pablo has facilitated the development of a consolidated research group, with a major interest in guideline methods, contributing to move forward the field of updating and incorporation of patients’ values and preferences in guidelines.
Pablo has been a GRADE working group member for many years and currently serves as a Grade Guidance Group member. In this group he has been instrumental in the development of several methodological advancements, for example the Evidence to Decision frameworks, a structured and explicit approach for the formulation of recommendations. These frameworks are now being gradually implemented in leading organisations, globally, including the WHO or the European Commission.