Director, Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
Professor Sir Andrew Morris is the inaugural Director of Health Data Research UK, the UK’s national institute for health data science, which he has led since 2017. Under his leadership, HDR UK works with the NHS, industry, charities and universities to unlock the UK’s health data for life-changing research, including the first study of health records covering the whole UK population of 67 million people. He is also Professor of Medicine and Vice Principal of Data Science at the University of Edinburgh, and has been President of the Academy of Medical Sciences since April 2024. He was previously Chief Scientist for the Scottish Government Health Directorate and Dean of Medicine at the University of Dundee, and chaired the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 Advisory Group during the pandemic. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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