David Hansen is CEO and Research Director of the Australian e-Health Research Centre at CSIRO – Australia’s national science agency. The AEHRC is CSIRO’s digital health research program and a joint venture between the CSIRO and Queensland Health.
With over 100 scientists and engineers across health informatics, biomedical informatics and health services research, the AEHRC is Australia’s largest digital health research centre.
David is in leadership positions with the Australian Genomics Health Alliance, the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health and the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. David is also a workstream leader for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. David is the previous Board Chair of the Health Informatics Society of Australia and member of the Clinical and Technical Board Advisory committee for the Australian Digital Health Agency.
Prior to joining CSIRO, David held senior positions leading technology research and development for SRS with LION Bioscience Ltd in the UK and before that the European Bioinformatics Unit.
David is passionate about the role of information and communication technologies in health care and the role of digital health professionals in developing a safe, high quality efficient and sustainable healthcare system.