Hilary Bowman-Smart

Hilary Bowman-Smart is a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Precision Health. She commenced her role in 2023. She previously 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 holds honorary positions at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University.

Hilary is an empirical bioethicist with a background in both genetics and philosophy. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Melbourne in 2022, receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Research. Her research approach involves ethical analysis that is informed by various types of empirical research, such as surveys, statistical analysis, and qualitative interview studies. Her areas of focus are reproductive ethics, genomics, and the philosophy of health and disease.