Hilda Bastian was a long-time consumer advocate in Australia, whose career turned to studying and analysing research and communicating about it. She is a writer and cartoonist, recently contributing to The Atlantic and WIRED. She has been studying factors affecting the validity of systematic reviews after publication. Hilda has worked on PubMed projects at the NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the US, and for the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare in Germany. She is one of the founders of the Cochrane Collaboration.