Hilary is a social anthropologist specialising in health systems development and reproductive and sexual health, with extensive experience of policy engagement on issues of gender and health sector reform and women's reproductive and sexual health, and thirty years experience of work on gender and health.

Interests include household level and gender aspects of health, formal and informal care systems, gender and equity in health, the management of organisational change in health sector restructuring and improving accountability within health systems.

Hilary is Director of the Realising Rights RPC which focuses on improving sexual and reproductive health and rights in developing countries. She is a Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health at BRAC University, Bangladesh and has worked extensively in South Asia.

She has worked extensively in rural and urban South Asia and convenes the international Gender and Health Equity Network.