Peter Tugwell (born March 30, 1944) is a Canadian physician and Professor in the Department of Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.

[2] After earning his medical degree at the Royal Free Hospital of the University of London, Tugwell and his wife moved to Nigeria to pursue his research into liver disease.

He was the founding director of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network Training Centre at McMaster University from 1982 to 1991, becoming later the Secretary of INCLEN's North American group (CanUSAClen).

[6] Tugwell is one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration, a nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of health care interventions, diagnostic tests and prognostic studies.

[9] In 1992, together with Maarten Boers they sparked the creation of OMERACT, an organization that "strives to improve endpoint outcome measurement through a data driven, iterative consensus process involving relevant stakeholder groups".