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Hilary Thomson is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit within the School of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. She leads the synthesis theme focused on improving the quality and utility of evidence synthesis for public health policy questions. Her work spans systematic reviews, narrative synthesis, and evaluation of complex interventions across multiple policy domains.
Dr. Thomson's research interests encompass healthy public policy, evidence-informed policy, synthesis methods including non-statistical synthesis of quantitative data, data visualization, and the utility of evidence synthesis. She has particular expertise in housing, transport, welfare, and work policies and their health impacts. Her methodological expertise includes systematic reviews, narrative synthesis, evaluation of complex interventions, qualitative methods, and critical appraisal of both RCTs and non-randomised studies.
Her publication record demonstrates consistent work in evidence synthesis methodology, with recent articles focusing on causal assessment in systematic reviews, income inequality and health outcomes, nature-based education for children, and welfare-to-work interventions. These publications reflect her commitment to advancing methodological approaches while addressing substantive public health questions related to social determinants of health.
Dr. Thomson serves as Co-Investigator on the NIHR funded Complex Reviews Support Unit and is co-coordinating editor of Cochrane Public Health, providing a UK base for this international collaboration. She has been commissioned by national and international decision-making bodies to provide accessible evidence summaries of her work, highlighting the policy relevance of her research.
