True data innovation cannot exist without rock-solid ethics and governance. Professor Melinda Mills combines decades of fiduciary oversight across global biobank architectures with high-dimensional Real-World Data (RWD) strategy—providing partners and investors with an unshakeable foundation of compliance, ethics, and trust.

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Her governance leadership spans the world’s most regulated health datasets and policy bodies—serving as a Trustee of UK Biobank, founding Scientific Advisory Board of Our Future Health (5M+ cohort), Ethics Advisory Board UK Biobank and Our Future Health, and Advisory Board Member for Lifelines Biobank (NL), Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) Cohort Studies, ODISSEI (NL), and the US NIH/NIA Health and Retirement Study. Having advised No 10 Downing Street Data Science Advisory Group, serving on NHS Digital Research Advisory Group, and one of three Special Advisors the European Commissioner for the Economy, she operates at the forefront of global data policy and ethical compliance.

 

Coming soon! Data4Science / PrivaTwin 

Channeling this deep data analysis and institutional governance expertise into technological innovation, Professor Mills is the founder of  an Oxford-backed platform pioneering participant-centric data donation. By embedding zero-trust security and dynamic consent into continuous user pipelines, this converts multi-modal digital footprints into audit-ready Real-World Evidence (RWE)—bridging individual data sovereignty with high-value scientific analytics.

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