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Donate NowMalavika Tampi, MPH
Malavika Tampi, MPH, is director, Guideline Development, for the Alzheimer's Association. In this role, she leads efforts to expand the Association's translational research portfolio, with a focus on supporting patient-centered, evidence-based clinical decision-making in the prevention, early detection/diagnosis, and management of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.Her responsibilities include conducting evidence-syntheses like systematic reviews and developing knowledge translation products like evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in collaboration with guideline panels and other methodological and scientific experts. She is also building a collaborative evidence ecosystem with partners such as Cochrane Global Ageing, and oversees the development of educational courses and workshops on evidence-based clinical decision-making and the methodology of systematic review and guideline development.
Tampi has authored numerous peer-reviewed systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines. Her broader body of work includes textbooks and courses on evidence-based decision-making, along with the creation of collaborative pathways involving clinical and professional societies and federal agencies. These partnerships include work with the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration, where she has been a major grant awardee.
She has additionally collaborated or consulted on vaccination, cardiovascular disease prevention and infectious diseases research with organizations such as the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, McMaster University's Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact Program, and the Guidelines International Network's Low- and Middle-Income Countries Working Group. She has also served for more than six years as a translational research advisor to the Peggy Lillis Foundation, a C. difficile patient advocacy organization, and has mentored or managed dozens of early-career guideline methodologists.
Tampi's multi-award-winning research has been presented at international conferences worldwide. In 2021, she notably received the Guidelines International Network's Najoua Mlika-Cabanne Innovation Award in recognition of her rigorous and collaborative approach to guideline development.
She earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan, and completed advanced training in the GRADE approach — an evidence-synthesis and guideline science framework — through the American Dental Association's Evidence-Based Dentistry Program.