Hilda Bastian
Professional profile
20 years' experience as a consumer advocate in Australia and on an international level.
Founder of the Cochrane Collaboration Consumer Network.
Author of numerous consumer health information materials and editor of the first consumer website of the Cochrane Collaboration.
1995-2001 Founding coordinating editor of the Cochrane Review Group on Consumers and Communication (research on evidence-based communication with patients).
1999-2004 Editor of the websites "Cochraneconsumer.com” / "Informed Health Online”.
Member of the GRADE Working Group (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) since 2006.
Member of the international expert panel of the Cochrane Collaboration Adverse Effects Methods Group since 2007.
Member of the working group on good practice for health information, German Evidence Based Medicine Network since 2008.
Member of working group 4 of the National Cancer Plan for the German Ministry of Health since 2008.
Convenor of the KEEP-Up Collaboration since 2009.
Board member, International Society for Evidence Based Health Care since 2010.
Member, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Systematic Review Working Group, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA since 2010.
Member of the scientific advisory group for the Knowledge Knowledge Centre for Health Communication",European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) since 2010.
Responsibilities
Hilda Bastian manages the Department of Health Information, including:
- Development of a methodology and system for evidence-based consumer and patient information in Germany.
- Development and maintenance of the bilingual website for consumer and patient information.
- Evaluation of the need for information.
- Research on communication with consumers and patients.
- Development of methods and procedures to consider patient-relevant endpoints in the Institute's work.
