Gail Higgins: Remembering a Senior Cochrane Information Specialist

Farhad
5 min readJul 25, 2022

I was saddened to hear one of the best information specialists, Gail Higgins, passed away. I was absolutely gutted by the news, and it took me time to settle and start writing. Our community lost a valuable and caring member. I won’t forget her kind-heartedness and professionalism. While I had little chance to meet Gail face to face and know her on a personal level, I have been in touch with her for 9 years professionally. I am writing this post to pay respect to her by highlighting her less known positive professional impacts on our field. I…

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