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Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is the new national institute for data science for health, which is being established in 2018 with long term funding support from research councils, UKRI, charitable and governmental research funders. The mission of HDR UK is drive improvements in the health of patients and populations through research at regional and national scale which spans discovery of disease mechanisms, through precision medicine and trials to public health.  To deliver this mission, the 5 major London universities - ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº (coordinating), Imperial College London, King’s College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Queen Mary University of London - came together as a pan London Site. The terms of this partnership are set out in the Site Agreement.

The London Site is the largest of the six UK Sites which include Cambridge including the Sanger and European Bioinformatics Institute, Oxford, the Midlands, Scotland and Wales/Northern Ireland). This is the first time that these universities across London have partnered in a major long term biomedical research initiative, and this partnership is already positively influencing decisions about further funding. Beyond the initial grant award there are already multiple, mulit-million pound funding initiatives involving HDR UK London. 

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) in HDR UK London will be accountable for the operational delivery of all aspects of the Site Agreement including delivering outstanding partnership science, capacity development and stakeholder engagement in order to advance London’s profile on the national and global stage. In order to do report outstanding performance at Annual and Quinquennial Reviews, the appointee will need to establish appropriate mechanisms for working with and across the 5 partner London universities in relation to organisation, governance, finance, HR, project management and communication.

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