Professor Neil Reeves has been appointed Health Theme Lead in the Data Science Institute. Neil brings internationally recognised expertise in secure digital health technologies and diabetes, a track record of ~180 publications and major EPSRC, NIH (USA) and Diabetes UK funding. Serving on EPSRC’s Healthcare Technologies Strategic Advisory Team (to March 2028) and the BSI medical devices committee, he will drive interdisciplinary collaboration, secure use of large health datasets (including NHS secure data environments), and capacity-building across the University’s health data science portfolio.

We warmly thank Professor Heather Brown for her impactful leadership of the Health Theme since September 2022. Heather as the theme lead for health has been a champion for cross-faculty working. Helping to build collaborations between FASS and FHM demonstrated by an ADR fellowship for an ECR based in sociology, successful funding applications to the NIHR with LEC and supporting a number of workshops.