Our Team

Andrew Morris

Julia Levy

Nicola Perrin

Neil Postlethwaite

Karen Hunter

Anne Wozencraft

Rodrigo Barnes

Jonas Häggström

Sarah Fullegar

Davide Scalenghe

Adrienne Testa
In addition to our ICODA core team members, we are supported by and work very closely with all of our extended team within Health Data Research (HDR) UK, our convenor.
Executive Leadership Team
The Executive Leadership Team (ELT) develops the strategic direction of ICODA and is accountable for the delivery of our core work.
The ELT is overseen by and accountable to the ICODA Board and our funders. Its work is also guided by advice from councils on Science and Ethics, and expert groups on Statistics and on Public Engagement and Involvement.
The ELT brings together members of our core team as well as the following people:
- Andrew Morris (Chair)
Director, Health Data Research UK - Steve Kern
Deputy Director, Quantitative Sciences; Global Health – Integrated Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - David Sibbald
CEO Aridhia Informatics - Névine Zariffa
Principle and Founder, NMD Group LLC - Aziz Sheikh
Professor of Primary Care Research & Development and Director of the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh - Julia Levy
Executive Director, ICODA - Neil Postlethwaite
Technical Director, ICODA - Nicola Perrin
Strategic Governance, ICODA

Steve Kern

David Sibbald

Névine Zariffa

Aziz Sheikh
Scientific & Strategic Advisory Council
The Scientific & Strategic Advisory Council provides high-level advice to help us identify opportunities to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, to deliver scientific impact and overcome the challenges of data sharing.
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"We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to design a platform for the global community of health researchers to generate better health outcomes for the world."
Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD
Co-Chair of Scientific Advisory Council;
Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity;
Former Minister of Health of Rwanda;
Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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"The Covid-19 pandemic presents our world a powerful opportunity … and responsibility … to share knowledge in real-time. Time must not be wasted because lives and livelihoods hang in the balance. ICODA has been created and dedicated to facilitating Partnership … Progress … that will derive Hope. We are stronger together. Our shared data will supercharge discovery that will save lives."
Martin J. Murphy, DMedSc, PhD, FASCO
Founding Chief Executive Officer, CEO Roundtable on Cancer
Founding CEO of Project Data Sphere, LLC, a non-profit enterprise devoted to cancer clinical trial data-transparency, data-sharing and data-analysis

Agnes Binagwaho

Dr Martin Murphy
Ethics Advisory Council
The Ethics Advisory Council provides high-level advice on ethics and data governance, helping us to build and demonstrate trustworthiness across all our activities.
- Effy Vayena (Chair)
Chair of Bioethics, at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ) - Pamela Andana
Wits University, South Africa - Claudia Emerson
McMaster University, Canada, Director, Institute on Ethics & Policy for Innovation - Sharon Kaur
University of Malaysia - Katherine Littler
Co-Lead, Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit, World Health Organization - Graeme Laurie,
Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, University of Edinburgh - Elettra Ronchi
Senior Policy Analyst, OECD

Effy Vayena
Statistical Expert Group
The Statistical Expert Group (SEG) will promote and facilitate open research that allows responsible sharing of data, analysis methods, and high quality results to support dissemination of knowledge worldwide.
- Jonas Häggström (chair)
VP Global Health, Cytel - Frank Rockhold
Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke Clinical Research Institute - Amy Racine
Distinguish Scientist, Novartis - Joan Buenconsejo
Senior Director, Biostatistics, AstraZeneca - Maia Leskovsky
Associate Professor, University of Cape Town - Ling Wang
Executive Director Biostatistics, Pfizer - John Norrie
Chair of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology, Director, Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit (ECTU) - Peter Mensenbrink
Executive Director Biostatistics, Novartis - Estelle Russek-Cohen
Senior Advisor Office of Biostatistics, CDER - Robin Mogg
Clinical Biostatistics Leader – Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
Funders
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“There is this underlying tenet that everything we do is based on equality, collaboration, and open access to data and information. So, it was obvious for the Minderoo Foundation to understand the context of this initiative. We were impressed by the partners involved on the funder side and with HDR UK as the convener, so it seemed appropriate to support this Alliance.”
Steve Burnell
Minderoo Foundation
ICODA is convened by Health Data Research UK – the national institute for health data in the UK. It is supported by a grant from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a large-scale initiative initiated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, Mastercard with additional support from Minderoo Foundation, and other donors to speed the development of and access to therapies for COVID-19. Other funders to the International COVID-19 Alliance include Microsoft, through its AI for Health program:
Jobs
ICODA offers the opportunity to make a real difference to harness the power of health data to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an exciting time to join a team working on a fast-growing initiative, and to be part of this ambitious and dynamic global programme.
While we are a diverse group of experts working together, we do so based on a set of united principles and the “One Institute” approach – a culture inherited from our convenor, Health Data Research UK.
We are currently recruiting for the following roles:
We have 1 vacancy:
Technical Project Manager and Agile Scrum Master
We are keen to receive speculative applications from people interested in working with us.