Natalie Banner PhD, MSc

Dr. Natalie Banner is a Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust, focusing primarily on the ethics and governance of research. This work seeks to maximize the use and value of health, medical and genetic data while ensuring that people can have confidence that it’s well protected and used in the public interest to benefit health. She is also part of an independent initiative called ‘Understanding Patient Data’, which aims to improve conversations about the way health information can be used for purposes beyond individual care. Prior to joining Wellcome, Dr. Banner was a postdoctoral researcher in the philosophy of psychiatry at King’s College London.