Christopher Allen Silagy AO (14 September 1960 – 13 December 2001) was an advocate of evidence-based medicine and an evaluator of health care programs.
[1] He was Professor of Public Health and Foundation Director of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research at Monash Medical School and he was also founder of the Australasian Cochrane Centre.
During this time he was also actively involved within the Scout Association of Australia, later becoming a Commissioner.
Silagy spent two years at Oxford University as Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholar in medicine before returning to Australia in 1993 to take up the foundation chair of general practice at Flinders University at the age of 33.
[5] Silagy died at the age of 41 of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma leaving his wife – Jane, and four children – Andrew, Michael, Nicholas and Benjamin.