Julia is passionate about healthcare, innovation and working with all stakeholders to deliver change. As Executive Director of the International COVID-19 Data Alliance, she has set up and led the organisation that brought together stakeholders working around the world to harness the power of data to accelerate insights into the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 with the support of Health Data Research UK, funded by the Gates and Minderoo Foundations. In her previous role at Human Data Sciences Company IQVIA, she played a central role in building a network of hospitals sharing information on how patients are treated for cancer to help inform care and accelerate research. The foundations of her career were in international marketing and sales and global strategy roles for GSK and GE Healthcare. She has also launched start-ups, run a healthcare think tank and worked in a variety of consulting and board and advisory positions.

Julia is speaking on Day 2: The Innovator's Lens: A Pandemic Story: What We Can Learn From Healthcare's Data Revolution