2022 Conference

Dr Maurício L. Barreto is a Senior Investigator at Fiocruz and an Emeritus Professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. His research in epidemiology and public health focuses on the social and environmental determinants of health, health inequalities, and the impact of social interventions on health. He is co-founder and has directed the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) in Salvador, Brazil since 2016. His current major project is focused on the impact of social protection policies on health using the 100 million Brazilian Cohort. 

Professor Stefan Bender is Head of the Research Data and Service Centre of the Deutsche Bundesbank and an Honorary Professor at the School of Social Sciences, University Mannheim. His research interests are data access, data quality, merging administrative survey data and/or big data, record linkage, management quality and establishment data. He has published over 100 articles in journals including the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Professor Linnet Taylor is Professor of International Data Governance at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on digital data, representation, and democracy, with particular attention to transnational governance issues. Her work on group privacy and data justice is used in discussions of technology governance in countries around the world. Linnet leads the European Research Council (ERC)-funded Global Data Justice project, which aims to develop a social-justice-informed framework for governance of data technologies on the global level. She is also a member of the Dutch Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) and a co-chair of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)’s Social Science roundtable advisory group.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond became the United Kingdom’s National Statistician on 22 October 2019. This role is a Crown appointment as the Authority’s and the Government’s principal adviser on official statistics. Sir Ian previously served as a non-executive member of the UK Statistics Authority Board from June 2018 to August 2019 and was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen from 2010 to 2018.

Hans-Erik G. Aronson is the National Digital Research Infrastructure Director of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK). He leads the UK trusted and connected Data and Analytics Research Environments programme (DARE UK), which aims to design and deliver a national data research infrastructure for cross-domain analysis of sensitive public sector data. He previously was Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Vice President of the Association of Independent Research Institutes from before joining HDR UK in July 2021.

Rachel Plachcinski’s interest in perinatal health research started when she trained as an antenatal teacher with the National Childbirth Trust, the UK’s largest birth and parenting charity, after having her own babies. She went on to study psychology (BSc) and Psychological Approaches to Health (MSc) at the University of Leeds. Her current projects involve being lay co-lead for parent, patient and public involvement at the Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care at NPEU, University of Oxford, and leading on PPPI for MuMPreDiCT, University of Birmingham, and Birth Timing 2 at City, University of London. She was one of the original members of the HDR-UK Public Advisory Board and is a member of the Cochrane Consumer Network Executive and Editorial Board.