Dr Georgina Humphreys

Dr Georgina Humphreys is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Georgina is an experienced scientist with a commitment to maximising the benefits from research data. After living and working in east Africa, she worked for many years on infectious diseases in the Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine, combining and analysing clinical trial data to detect early signs of antimalarial drug resistance.

In 2018 she moved to research funding at Wellcome where she led the development and implementation of Wellcome’s clinical trial and data sharing policies, including transparency of results reporting and encouraging data sharing and re-use. She then worked at Health Data Research UK, the national institute for health data science, supporting an international group of data scientists to re-use existing health data for priority research questions through funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Georgina now supports a range of projects through her consultancy work including; the World Health Organization (WHO) research and development unit in the Antimicrobial Resistance Division, acting as the Secretariat for an Independent Review Panel for two clinical data sharing platforms (Vivli and CSDR), associate work with Research Consulting to enable universities and funders to improve their research data management. She has a strategic advisory role on a GloPID-R project (based in the Pandemic Sciences Institute) to build a funder tracker tool displaying data on pandemic preparedness.

Georgina has been a Board Director of the UK clinical trial registry (ISRCTN) since 2019, a member of the Health Research Authority ‘Make it Public’ transparency campaign group since 2021, and a member of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Grants and Awards Committee since 2022.

Georgina first joined Green Templeton College in 2017 and has been a college advisor to students every year since.