Jane Kaye
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Prof. Jane Kaye DPhil, LLB, Grad Dip Leg, BA is the Director of the Centre for Law, Health and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and Professor of Health Law and Policy at the University of Melbourne. She is Senior Convenor of AI in Research and Research Training at the University of Melbourne. She established the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia, which is now co-directed by Professor Mark Taylor and Dr Megan Prictor. She obtained her degrees from the Australian National University (BA); University of Melbourne (LLB); and University of Oxford (DPhil). The main focus of her research is on digital innovation with an emphasis on AI, digital privacy and dynamic consent, public involvement and engagement in research, biobanks, genomics, data-sharing infrastructure, global governance and translational research.
Professor Kaye is on a number of international expert committees and scientific advisory boards and has been on the Nuffield Council Bioethics Working Group on Biodata and Rapporteur for the EC Expert Report, Biobanks for Europe - A Challenge for Governance, June 2012. Most recently she was on the UN Taskforce on Health Data Privacy, appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the European biobanking platform BBMRI-ERIC, and is on the WP8 Advisory Group of the Joint European Action TEHDAS ‘Towards a European Health Data Space’. She also holds Associate Professorships at the Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania and at the Bioethics Centre, led by Professor Kazuto Kato at the Osaka Medical School, Japan. She is also on the editorial boards of Genomic Medicine, Law, Innovation and Technology, the Journal of Law, Information and Science