Vivienne C. Bachelet, MD, MSc

Vivienne C. Bachelet is an MD and has a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology. In 2001, she founded Medwave, a peer-reviewed general medical journal. In 2016, she joined the Universidad de Santiago de Chile as an associate professor in the School of Medicine, where she heads the Evidence-based Medicine Unit.  Vivienne was a member of the COPE council from January 2016 to September 2019. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. In 2023, she won the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023 (Manchester) for her contribution to bilingualism in scholarly communication. This year she was invited to join the ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) on behalf of her journal. Her areas of expertise are research methods, observational field studies, publication ethics and research integrity, evidence-based medicine, conduct and management of health research projects, quality management (ISO standards), e-learning and flipped classroom methods, health policies and policy briefs, editorial leadership, and gender perspective and feminism conceptual frameworks.