Dr David Hansen is a recognised leader in Digital Health in Australia. David is the CEO and Research Director of the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) – CSIRO’s Digital Health Research Program and an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government. David has led the AEHRC to be the pre-eminent health and biomedical informatics program in Australia – with a $27m per annum budget, over 100 scientists and engineers and 30 students. As CEO of the AEHRC David reports to a joint venture board consisting of representatives of Queensland Health and CISRO and an independent chair. Within CSIRO David is part of the leadership team of the CSIRO Health and Biosecurity Business Unit. David contributes to Queensland Health in many roles, including membership of the Queensland Health e-Health executive committee.

His extensive leadership experience in building innovation-based organisations that inform the health and life sciences industries has resulted in a rare mix of skills and experience, incorporating executive leadership, technical research, and product and business development, spanning both the private and public sectors.

David has held senior positions leading technology research and development with LION Bioscience Ltd. in Cambridge, UK, and the Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO in Australia. David is currently involved in leadership positions in many national research initiatives including a member of the National Steering Committee for the NHMRC Australian Genomics Health Alliance, a member of the leadership team for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health and a member of the leadership team of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. David is also a workstream leader for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. David’s leadership is also recognised in the roles he plays broadly in Australia’s digital health community. This includes previous Board Chair of the Health Informatics Society of Australia, member of the Clinical and Technical Board Advisory committee for the Australian Digital Health Agency.

David maintains his research interests in both health informatics and bioinformatics, working with AEHRC research teams in areas such as data interoperability, description logic, data analytics and bioinformatics. David also leads research in the Australian Genomics Health Alliance, Queensland Genomics Health Alliance and as part of his role with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.