Research Bias in the World

Research Bias in the World is a free NSRI research program examining how bias appears inside the evidence behind major medical guidelines.

Medical guidelines shape how diseases are studied, treated, and understood. But 1 question is often missed:

Does the evidence behind those guidelines actually represent the patients those guidelines affect?

NSRI researchers are already working on 3 major guideline-bias projects across hypertension, cancer, and depression. These projects examine which studies are cited, which countries dominate the evidence, how much of the data comes from a small number of massive studies, whether demographic information is properly reported, and which populations are missing.

Through weekly Sunday sessions, participants will work directly with the host and the NSRI community to break down real guideline-bias examples, discuss evidence gaps, compare research approaches, and learn from each other as they build their own projects.

This is not a passive webinar. It is a working research program for students who want to understand how research systems shape what medicine eventually treats as truth.

Participants will learn how to analyze cited studies, identify representation gaps, evaluate demographic reporting, compare guideline evidence bases, and develop research questions around bias in medical evidence.

Only the first 100 students will be able to join the weekly live sessions. Selected participants will receive the session link and project details after signing up.

Research should not only be trusted. It should be tested.

Weekly sessions will be held every Sunday at 8:00 AM PKT Pakistan, 12:00 PM KST Korea. Equivalent times: 8:30 AM IST India, 9:00 AM Bangladesh time, 11:00 AM Philippines/Singapore time, and 11:00 PM ET Saturday for the U.S. East Coast during EDT, or 10:00 PM ET Saturday during EST.