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Professor Mark Taylor is Director of the Collaborative for Better Health and Regulation and HeLEX@Melbourne at the University of Melbourne's Melbourne Law School. His research focuses on the regulation of personal information with emphasis on health information and genetic data, privacy law, data protection, and trustworthy governance of health data for secondary research purposes.
His work seeks to develop a public interest framework reconciling individual/community privacy interests with information needs of learning health systems. Research interests include:
- Privacy law and data protection frameworks
- Governance models for health data reuse
- Legal and ethical dimensions of genomic research
- Commercialization impacts on data trustworthiness
Professor Taylor's recent publications show consistent focus on genomic data governance, public trust in health systems, and socio-legal aspects of data commercialization. Key thematic areas include public attitudes toward data sharing, regulatory frameworks for biobanking, and equity considerations in health information systems.
He maintains significant policy engagement, having served as Interim Chair of the Data Governance Board for My Health Record (Australian Government), policy advisor to the UK Health Research Authority, and contributor to the OECD Recommendation on Health Data Governance.
