Hilda Bastian
Meta-scientist, writer, cartoonist
Hilda Bastian is a meta-scientist, writer, and cartoonist, whose recent doctoral dissertation focused on ways shifting evidence affects the reliability of systematic reviews. She blogs at Absolutely Maybe at PLOS, and contributes to WIRED, BMJ Blogs, and the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin. Hilda was a long-time health consumer advocate when she helped build the Cochrane Collaboration, served on the board for its first eight years, founded and led the Consumer Network for 10 years, and was the first Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group. She has been Chair of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, and worked at Germany's IQWiG and the US National Library of Medicine (NIH). Hilda leads the Independent Advisory Group in a pilot on stakeholder engagement for controversial Cochrane reviews. She now lives in a country town in Australia, and is working on a biography of Austin Bradford Hill..
Hilda spoke 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?
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