Personal Statement
Annemarie is Director of HealthTech and Innovation Growth at the University of Liverpool where she is leading development and implementation of the Civic Health Innovation Lab’s Investment Zone programme in conjunction with the Integrated Care Board and Liverpool City Region’s Combined Authority.

She is a hybrid professional whose career has spanned the public, private and third sectors - with senior leadership roles in research, policy and strategy as well as in national service design and programme delivery. She is, also, an Executive Fellow of the University of Essex and alumna of the Open Innovation Fellowship managed by London and Partners in conjunction with the Royal College of Arts.

Annemarie is a subject expert in data-driven health and care with a successful track record in advocacy at a national level who has worked extensively with parliamentarians, central government officials and senior leaders of national organisations as well as with NHS Trusts and local authorities to evidence need and advocate for change. She has made recommendations about how best to deploy data and technology in pursuit of improved outcomes for patients and service users and has contributed to broad-ranging legislation, regulations, and guidance.

She, also, benefits from significant partnership development, relationship and public affairs management experience and is hard-wired for collaboration. This wiring, plus natural strengths in communication, enable her to build coalitions, develop programmes of work and drive impact at scale.

Research Overview
Original Research & Publications

• Developing a Value Framework for Medical Imaging Data, Future Care Capital & National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) – April 2021
• Research and Commercial Use of Healthcare Data: a review of the legal issues surrounding the potential ownership and exploitation of health data, Future Care Capital & Anthony Collins Solicitors – May 2020
• Data That Cares, Future Care Capital - November 2019
• Taking Next Steps to harness the Value of Health and Care Data, Future Care Capital - May 2019
• Auditing Demand for Health and Care Data: In Search of Radical Transparency, Future Care Capital – May 2019
• Facilitating Care Insight to Develop Caring Economies, Future Care Capital – September 2018
• Securing the Future: planning health and care for every generation, Future Care Capital – September 2017
• Intelligent Sharing: Unleashing the potential of health and care data, Future Care Capital – July 2017

In addition, Annemarie commissioned and contributed to a series of reports drawing on social media data to better understand the UK public’s experience of the coronavirus pandemic working with colleagues from Ipsos MORI.

Press Mentions

• How a radical new health model could ensure NHS data is used for public good – New Statesman, Nov 2021
• Covid: Mass testing in Liverpool sees 'remarkable decline' in cases – BBC, Nov 2020
• Stay Alert never made sense and now we’ve got the data to prove it – Wired Magazine, Sept 2020
• Making NHS data work for everyone – Guardian, Feb 2020
• The NHS, AI and Our Data – BBC Radio 4 – Analysis, Feb 2020
• Covid-19 and lack of linked datasets for care homes - BMJ, June 2020
• Contact-tracing app U-turn: UK ditches its own plan in favor of Google and Apple option – ZDNet, June 2020
• AI bias and privacy issues require more than clever tech – Computer Weekly, June 2020
• Lawyer files EU complaint over state aid to Amazon – The Times, December 2019
• Why the drugs giants are thirsty for your health records – The Sunday Times, August 2019
• England’s NHS is embracing big data. But who’s really benefiting? – Open Democracy, July 2019
• Make no mistake, one way or another NHS data is on the table in America trade talks – The Times, June 2019
• Harnessing the Value of NHS Patient Data - The Lancet, November 2018