Catherine Marshall

Co-chair of Cochrane's Governing Board

Catherine has been the Co-Chair of the Cochrane Governing Board since September 2019. Catherine was one of the first two appointed members of the Cochrane Governing Board in 2016. She is also a member of the Board’s Governance Committee, and Finance Audit and Investment Committee, and was elected as Treasurer in September 2018. Outside Cochrane, Catherine is an Independent Guideline Adviser and Health Sector consultant based in New Zealand.

She is currently Co-Chair of the Partnership Advisory Group with the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) and was previously Vice Chair of its board of trustees and is an Honorary Patron of G-IN. Catherine was the inaugural Chief Executive of the New Zealand Guidelines Group from 2000-2006, where one of her key responsibilities was the development and implementation of evidence-based guidelines and advice – which often relied on evidence from the Cochrane Library.

Catherine is also a prominent health consumer advocate, working on the development of health consumer legislation in New Zealand and as a former member of the NZ Stronger Consumer Voices Alliance. In 2018, she helped organize and participate in the consumer programmes for the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh.

Catherine moderated a session at 'Virtually Cochrane', a virtual event we co-hosted with Cochrane Ireland in April 2021. Watch the recording Systematic evidence and the COVID-19 stress test: pass or fail?