Andy Boyd

Trust and Transparency Co-Lead

Andy’s speciality is in the design and delivery of the data and governance infrastructure needed for linking participants in longitudinal studies with routine records to augment cohort study databanks. He is Director of the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (https://ukllc.ac.uk).

UK LLC is the national trusted research environment for longitudinal population studies which provides record linkage and secure analysis services to many UK studies and provides an efficient and secure route for researchers to access complex integrated data. Andy is particularly interested in how increased use of population data in this way can bolster inclusivity within longitudinal research and drive research equity.

Andy is also co-lead for HDR UK’s Trust and Transparency theme of activity. With co-lead Cassie Smith and the team, Andy is working to help facilitate the development of an efficient governance framework for UK population data science which has an interdisciplinary approach and ensures the co-involvement of the public across all activities.

Within this, Andy and the UK LLC are contributing to the HDR UK Social & Environmental Determinants of Health driver programme which is developing secure system-wide approaches to integrating environmental exposure data with health data to help inform investigations into cross-cutting questions such as the role of air quality and noise on health and wellbeing outcomes.