Health Data Research UK Conference

The UK’s No. 1 conference on health data science took place in October 2025 at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow. This two-day hybrid event showcased the latest advances in health data science that are improving people’s lives.

Last year’s hybrid conference featured world-class keynote speakers and opportunities to share science through submitted talks and posters with leading exhibitors and various networking events.

The keynotes from the 2025 Conference are now available on the HDR UK YouTube channel.

Key Themes:

Transforming healthcare with AI
Data access and information governance
Routine healthcare data in clinical trials
Public health and health inequalities
Innovating the data infrastructure
Data-driven solutions to NHS pressures
Public and patient involvement and engagement (PPIE) throughout the research cycle
Addressing societal challenges by linking health and non-health records

Agenda

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Explore the full conference agenda including speakers, panel sessions and networking opportunities across the two days.

Keynote speakers

Dr Raghib Ali CEO, Chief Investigator and Chief Medical Officer, Our Future Health

Naomi Allen Chief Scientist, UK Biobank

Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Glasgow and Chief Scientific Advisor (Health) for the Scottish Government

Professor Ben Goldacre Director, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Dr John Halamka Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo Clinic Platform

Gerrit Meijer Chief Science Officer, Health-RI, Netherlands

Ming Tang Interim Chief Digital & Information Officer, and Chief Data & Analytics Officer, NHS England

Dr Richard Torbett Chief Executive, ABPI

Dr Ellen Thomas Chief Medical Officer, Genomics England

Professor Angela Wood NIHR Research Professor of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at University of Cambridge; Associate Director/Theme Lead for Structured Data at BHF Data Science Centre; Co-Lead/Programme Director of Big Data for Complex Diseases Driver Programme

Why you should join us in 2027

Health Data Research UK’s annual conference will be a two-day, hybrid event to celebrate progress and bring people together to accelerate the trustworthy use of health data for public benefit. This is an event dedicated to celebrating how health data science can improve people’s lives.

What to expect

The UK is in a unique position to realise the potential of health data, thanks to the NHS and its cradle-to-grave records for a population of over 65 million people. The last few years have demonstrated the enormous power of data to advance medical knowledge and deliver radical improvements to people’s lives. But there is much more that can be done through large-scale data, advanced analytics and innovative developments in data governance.

Health Data Research UK’s annual conference will be a two-day, hybrid event to celebrate this progress and allow us to come together and continue to build momentum in the health data research revolution.