Evan Mayo-Wilson

Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhil, MPA

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

My research focuses on the benefits and harms of health interventions, artificial intelligence to assess and improve clinical trials and systematic reviews, and reporting standards that increase research transparency and openness.

I am a principal investigator of studies that use artificial intelligence to extract and compare the methods and results of intervention research. I also serve as Co-Scientific Director for peer review of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Final Research Reports. I am a member of the Cochrane Methods Executive, Associate Convenor of the Cochrane Adverse Events Methods Group, and member of the American Psychological Association Open Science and Methodology Expert Panel. I have authored multiple guidelines for reporting clinical trials and systematic reviews, and I am one of five members of the PRISMA Executive, which is responsible for maintaining guidelines for reporting systematic reviews. In 2025, Nature ranked PRISMA 2020 among the 25 most-cited papers of the twenty-first century.

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Current grants

Improving results and conclusions about harms in systematic reviews of drugs (AHRQ R01HS029877)

Objective: Examine whether information about safety in systematic reviews is consistent, and whether systematic reviews address safety concerns identified in real-world evidence and drug labels.

Computational methods, resources, and tools to assess transparency and rigor of randomized clinical trials (NLM R01LM014079)

Objective: Develop automated methods to identify methods described in reports of clinical trials, assess adherence to reporting guidelines, and conduct meta-research.

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Teaching

I advise PhD students in epidemiology. I welcome students interested in the program to email me.

I teach Systematic Review (EPID 702) in the Spring semester. In the Fall semester, I teach the Pharmacoepidemiology Seminar (EPID 893) and am a small group instructor for Epidemiologic Research Methods (EPID 726). I also teach at the Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials (sponsored by NIH).

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