Claudia works at the intersection between healthcare, informatics and policy studies and is recognised as one of the UK’s leading experts on digital health. Much of her work in recent years has examined the delicate balance between embracing innovation and protecting patient care, confidentiality and data security. She has led or co-led number of global, UK and Scottish postgraduate programmes in digital health and data ethics and has also contributed to policy in various ways. During the covid pandemic she advised on approaches to contact tracing and population health data mining, she recently chaired the Scottish government’s expert group in Digital Ethics and she works as a consultant in digital health and digital ethics for the World Health Organization. Although not a computer scientist, she has an enduring interest in aspects of cybersecurity and is an affiliate member of the Edinburgh Blockchain research group.
