Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor is a Professor of Health Law and Regulation at Melbourne Law School, Co-Director of the HeLEX (Health Law and Emerging Technologies) Research Group, and Co-Director of the Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation at the University of Melbourne. He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania.

• Research Focus: Regulation of personal information, particularly health and genetic data; reconciliation of privacy protections with public interest.
• Current Projects: Chief Investigator on the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Genomics Health Futures project addressing ethical, legal, and social issues in clinical/genomic data governance; Interim Chair of the My Health Record Data Governance Board.
• Recent Publications: 2024 study on genomic data commercialization and public trust; 2023 analysis of human research ethics committees' roles in consent waivers.
• Policy Engagement: Immediate past Chair of the Confidentiality Advisory Group (England and Wales); advisor to Health Research Authority, National Data Guardian, and Victorian Health Technology Advisory Committee.
• Grants: Led projects on genomic repository trust-building (2020–2023) and legislative assessments for the Australian Department of Health (2019–2020); contributed to the European Commission-funded SMART program (2016–2019) on sustainable development through enterprise governance.