Dr David Hansen

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 150 scientists and engineers the AEHRC is Australia’s largest digital health research centre. The AEHRC undertakes research in data semantics and interoperability, genomics, medical imaging, artificial intelligence and machine learning across healthcare. The technology developed by AEHRC scientists is aimed at enabling digitally enabled services to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare.

David is involved in leadership positions in many national research initiatives including the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health and the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. David is on the board of the Australian institute of Digital Health and is a member of the Connected Care Council for the Australian Digital Health Agency.

Prior to joining CSIRO, David has held senior positions leading technology research and development for SRS with LION Bioscience Ltd and before that the European Bioinformatics Institute.

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 health care system in Australia.