Zharain Bawa

Zharain Bawa is the Operations Lead at North West Secure Data Environment (SDE) and the Product Director at Greater Manchester Secure Data Environment (Health Innovation Manchester), and she leads the strategic delivery of the SDE service. Her previous roles include head of delivery for national digital, data and transformation programmes (Digital Homecare, Connected Care Records and Digital Maturity Assessment) within the Transformation Directorate, NHS England. Zharain is a Ph.D. scientist and data analyst by background with significant experience working in life sciences, genomics and public and population health both in the UK and USA. She has a deep interest and passion in using healthcare data safely and securely to enable research benefitting patients and the population.