Miranda is the Guidelines Program Manager at the Australian Living Evidence Consortium (ALEC), leading the Evidence Synthesis Team working to develop Australia's first living clinical guidelines for pregnancy and postnatal care (the LEAPP project). In addition, Miranda is Co-Director of Cochrane's international Planetary Health Thematic Group, and lead's ALEC's Climate Health initiative.

Miranda's research focuses on methods for evidence synthesis and systematic reviews, with a particular interest in public health and planetary health. She enjoys making synthesis methods accessible for authors and useful for decision makers, having worked for many years as a Methods Editor with Cochrane Public Health, co-editing the 2nd Edition of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions, and holding previous roles leading Cochrane's international training program for authors of systematic reviews (see http://training.cochrane.org), as well as regional training programs in Australia and Canada.

Miranda has a background in public health policy, having worked for the Australian Government's Department of Health and Ageing and as a parliamentary adviser in health policy, as well as working with Cochrane Australia on knowledge translation and exchange programs to support evidence-based policy making.

Miranda holds a PhD in epidemiology from Monash University, a Masters in Public Health from the University of Queensland and an Honours degree in Government from the University of Sydney.