Dr Cindy Stern is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Health Evidence Synthesis Recommendations and Impact (HESRI) in the School of Public Health. She is the Program Manager for the Australian Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Guideline. Dr Stern has actively contributed to the field of evidence-based health care for over two decades, largely in the area of evidence synthesis and methodology. Dr Stern is an experienced researcher having been involved in the conduct of diverse types of systematic reviews and evidence syntheses related to health and has been involved in numerous consultancy projects for organisations such as the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, Griffith University, the Minderoo Foundation, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the National Health and Medical Research Council. She currently sits on numerous advisory boards including the Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative and the Australian National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWs) Evidence Portal Initiative. Dr Stern is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of JBI Evidence Synthesis, an international peer-reviewed multidisciplinary health care journal that publishes reviews that follow methodology and methods developed by JBI. She also regularly peer reviews for other scholarly journals across the globe and is a member of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). As such, she is interested in the science of publishing practices to improve the quality of scholarly research, known as Journalology.Dr Stern is a member of the JBI Mixed Methods Methodology Group and the JBI Umbrella Review Methodology Group, a member of the Adelaide GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Centre, and the JBI Predatory Publishing Practices Group; all of which are international groups that focus on enhancing the rigour and conduct of systematic reviews. She is also a certified trainer for the JBI Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program and Scoping Review Workshop. Dr Stern has also supervised numerous postgraduate students at Masters and PhD level.Aside from the focus on methodology and synthesis, her research interests relate to aged care and the use of animals to enhance health and wellbeing.