Jefferson, Emily

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20062025

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Biography

Emily has a degree in Biochemistry, a PhD in Bioinformatics and was employed as a post-doctoral researcher in Bioinformatics following her PhD. She then left academia to work in the finance sector. In industry she gained extensive experience of using “Big Data” and leading the delivery of large software and hardware projects. Emily then took a career break to solo cycle from New Zealand to the UK over 1 year.

Emily chose to return to work in an area she feels passionate about. She now works to combine an understanding of medical research and academia with industry standard IT project management and software development experience and apply these skills to the field of Health Informatics and Data Science.

Emily was the academic lead and Director of the Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at the University of Dundee from 2013-2022, leading a team of ~60 people providing services to hundreds of different research projects providing expertise in health informatics, data science, data management, governance, and machine learning. She was responsible for an ISO27001 certified infrastructure, and a Scottish Government accredited Safe Haven.

Since November 2022, Emily has been on secondment from Dundee to Health Data Research (HDR) UK, working as their CTO. She is also Interim Director of DARE UK.

As a Professor of Health Data Science, Emily is involved with a range of projects in the fields of Trusted Research Environments (TREs), data science, software engineering, clinical imaging, data linkage and machine learning. 

Her main research interest is in the development of technical innovations to Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and sensitive data linkage which meet the needs of the research community but also meet data governance requirements and maintain public trust.  

Research

As a Professor of Health Data Science, Emily is involved with a range of projects in the fields of Trusted Research Environments (TREs), data science, software engineering, clinical imaging, data linkage and machine learning.

Her main research interest is in the development of technical innovations to Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and sensitive data linkage which meet the needs of the research community but also meet data governance requirements and maintain public trust.

Emily has been PI or Co-I on >38 grants, totaling > £120M (responsible for delivery >£28M), since returning to an academic role in 2014.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Science, PhD Bioinformatics, University of Dundee

1 Oct 20031 Oct 2006

Award Date: 1 Jun 2007

Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry, University of St Andrews

1 Sept 20001 Jul 2003

Award Date: 1 Jul 2003

External positions

Interim Director DARE UK

22 Jan 2024 → …

CTO Health Data Research (HDR) UK

14 Nov 2022 → …

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