Cynthia Mulrow (born May 23, 1953) is an American physician and scholar from Edinburg, Texas.

Her academic work mainly focuses on systematic reviews and evidence reports, research methodology, and chronic medical conditions.

Mulrow is the Senior Deputy Editor of the academic journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and an adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Past positions that she has held were: Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program (2000-2008) and Director of the San Antonio Cochrane Collaboration Center (1994-2000) and the San Antonio Evidence-based Practice Center (1997-2000).

[2][3] She currently contributes to groups who set standards for reporting research including PRISMA (systematic reviews and meta-analyses),[4] and STROBE (observational studies).