Our Locations
We are a federated institute with partnerships across universities, NHS organisations, charities, industry, patient groups and research institutes. Our sites are based at research sites, Hubs and central offices in 32 locations across the UK.

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) South-West
Better Care South-West Partnership is a collaboration of NHS commissioners, primary, secondary, community and mental health care providers, local authorities, and academia.

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Midlands
Director
Professor Simon Ball, Director of Digital Healthcare, University Hospital Birmingham
Associate Directors
Professor Theodoros Arvanitis Professor of e-health innovation and Head of Research at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick
Professor Anthony Brookes, Professor of Bioinformatics & Genomics, Department of Genetics &...

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) North
Regional Co-Directors
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, The University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Andy Clegg, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Leeds and Bradford Royal Infirmary.
Associate Directors
Monica Jones, Chief Data Officer DATA-CAN, University of Leeds.
Dr Séamus O’Neill, Chief Executive Officer of the...

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Cambridge
Director
Professor John Danesh, Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Cambridge and Associate Faculty Member, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Associate Directors
Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Matthew Hurles, Head of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Dr Helen Parkinson, Head of...

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Wales and Northern Ireland
Director
Professor Ronan Lyons, Professor of Public Health, Swansea University
Associate Directors
Professor David Ford, Professor of Health Informatics, Swansea University
Professor Mark Lawler, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, Queen’s University Belfast
Partners
Our partners are research institutions with strong, complementary strengths in public/population health...

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) London
Director
Professor Harry Hemingway, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University College London
Associate Directors
Professor Carol Dezateux, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Data Science, Queen Mary University of London
Professor Paul Elliott, Chair in Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Imperial
Professor Tim Hubbard, Professor of Bioinformatics, King’s...

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Scotland
Co-Directors
Professor David Robertson, Head of College of Science & Engineering, University of Edinburgh
Katie Wilde, Head of Digital Research, University of Aberdeen
Associate Directors
Professor Marion Bennie, Professor of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde
Professor Corri Black, Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Aberdeen
Professor Chris Dibben, Director of...

Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Oxford
Director
Professor Martin Landray, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Deputy Director, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford
Associate Director
Professor Gil McVean, Professor of Statistical Genetics, Director, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford
Partner
University of Oxford
Research initiatives
21st Century Clinical Trials
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