Helen has experienced cancer from a caregiver and patient perspective. This 360-degree view means that she is well placed to understand the perspectives of patients, carers and healthcare professionals, and is skilled in patient and public involvement advocacy.

Helen's roles in brainstrust, a national brain cancer charity, and as a patient and public representative across organisations are as a disseminator of information and the provision of a network and community, so that she can provide advice on achieving effective patient and public involvement and creating a voice.

Helen’s key drivers are the patients, their caregivers and healthcare professionals, with whom she interacts daily. Her ethos of 'none of us is as smart as all of us' is a core value for her. Elemental to Helen’s work is high-performance coaching and shared decision-making.

Jack has been working to support the public and researchers to work together for over 15 years. In his early twenties, Jack’s partner died from sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS), and it was this experience which led him into the world of research, involvement and advocacy.

Jack’s passion is in creating and evaluating equitable, inclusive and ethical ways for people to get involved in all aspects of research and science. In 2022 he was awarded a PhD in public health, exploring genomics research and involving people.

Jack is the Director and founder of the charity Science for All, which works to involve everyone in shaping the future of human knowledge. He volunteers his time as member of the 'Standardised Data on Initiatives (STARDIT)' Steering Committee and Co-Chair of Citizen Science and Open Science Community of Practice. He is a member of an Australian Federal Government Advisory Group which advises on improving involvement in health and medical research. He is also a member of the ‘Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative’ Advisory Board, and of the working group for the Australian Genomics project ‘Involve Australia’.

Brian has over 35 years' experience working in the public sector at executive level, providing behavioural health, intellectual disability, substance use disorder and ageing services.

Brian has been a Cochrane Member for six years, including experience with Cochrane Crowd, Cochrane Engage, peer reviews, plain language summaries, the Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership, and Cochrane's plain language summary guidelines for authors.

Brian aims to contribute by offering expertise in how to best provide and communicate healthcare information. He believes this is best accomplished through access to plain language guides, supplemented by decision aids to help guide individuals through a rational decision-making process, in concert with healthcare providers, that is respectful of their choices and preferences.

Euphrasia heads Cameroon Consumer Service Organisation, a national network of consumers striving to make informed choices about their basic services.

She joined Cochrane in 2017 as a result of a quest to make evidence-informed decisions about her dental health challenge, as well as to connect her network to the global evidence-informed decision-making ecosystem.

Euphrasia is passionate about capacity development for patients and the public in resource-limited settings, so as to ensure their meaningful engagement in evidence ecosystems. Her interest in joining the Cochrane Patient and Public Network lies in her expectation to amplify the voices of patients and the public in advocating for an effective mechanism to identify and provide the needed support (skills, frameworks and systems) for patients and the public within global, continental and national evidence ecosystems.

Jonathan has over 40 years of experience in health services delivery managing complex healthcare organisations. Most recently he serves on the Board for a company that promotes the secure use and interoperability of healthcare data for patients and providers.

Jonathan's particular interests are improving quality of care, understanding changing healthcare dynamics and processes, and their impact on patient care. He has experience in the evaluation of quality of care activities, value-based healthcare, patient and public representation, and the impact of services on the cost of care.

Jonathan has authored numerous articles on the accreditation and the quality of care, social determinants of health and access to care. Over the past 10 years, he has served on numerous Cochrane review panels as a patient and public representative.

Ana Beatriz is a family registered nurse based in Colombia with advanced training in Clinical Research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Over the past five years, Ana has held multiple roles within Cochrane, including serving on the Editorial Board and the Steering Committee of the Early Career Professionals Network.

Ana is passionate about health equity, evidence synthesis methods, and meaningful community and stakeholder engagement. In 2020, she founded and began coordinating the Colombian Cochrane Consumer Network, through which she has been a strong advocate for patient rights and meaningful involvement in evidence-based decision-making—particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Her efforts have focused on promoting health literacy, co-creating research priorities with patients and the public, and fostering equitable partnerships between researchers and stakeholders.

Danielle is a lived experience stillbirth researcher, methodologist in evidence synthesis, mum to three, and wife living in Adelaide, Australia. She has been an advocate for the inclusion of patients within research since the loss of her daughter, Sofia, to stillbirth in 2014.

Danielle completed a PhD in which she explored stillbirth stigma, and identified that over half of bereaved mothers faced stigmatising attitudes and beliefs. However, she also highlighted bereaved parents as advocates in changing the ingrained and fatalistic attitudes towards stillbirth held by clinicians, researchers, and government organisations.

Danielle strongly believes that patients change healthcare systems, and their involvement only strengthens understanding. Danielle is currently a research fellow in evidence-based healthcare and has continued her patient advocacy.