Hilary Bowman-Smart is a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at Adelaide University, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Humanities.
 
Hilary works within applied ethics, empirical bioethics and philosophy of medicine. Her research examines reproductive technologies, genomics, digital health, machine learning, and diagnosis. 
 
Her methodological approach involves ethical and philosophical analysis informed by empirical research. She is a mixed-methods researcher with experience in surveys, data linkage, document analysis, and qualitative interview studies. She is currently Empirical Ethics stream lead for the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. 
 
Prior to her role at Adelaide University, she held a position as Researcher in the Ethics of Prenatal Genetics and Genomics at the University of Oxford between 2021 and 2023. In this role, she worked on a project comparing the implementation of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in England, France and Germany, with her research conducted in both English and German. She has also been a visiting fellow at the University of Augsburg, and held honorary positions at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University. 
 
She was awarded her PhD by the University of Melbourne in 2022, receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research. Her thesis examined the moral permissibility of non-medical uses of prenatal testing. She has an interdisciplinary background and training in biomedical science, philosophy, classics, and public health.