Syrah is a trainee clinical scientist in clinical informatics on the NHS Scientist Training Programme. She previously completed her BSc in Medical Biochemistry and MSc in Public Health.
Her academic and professional experience combined with her personal experience of the healthcare system has highlighted to her the impact of some of the health research gaps that exist, particularly in women’s health. This has strengthened her interest and commitment to health data science. She feels that effective use of health data, particularly electronic patient record data, holds immense potential to help address research gaps, improve delivery of patient care, address health inequalities, and in turn improve health outcomes.
As a PAB member, she hopes to support the work of HDR UK in building public trust in health data science and to contribute to the development and implementation of HDR UK’s public and patient engagement strategy.
