Katherine Littler

Katherine Littler is a Senior Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust, with a background in medical law and ethics. Since joining the Trust in 2005 she has worked extensively on regulatory, governance and ethical issues. She currently leads a programme of work focusing on research ethics and global governance. Current areas of interest include: data sharing, data access and governance; biobanking; returning health related findings in research; ethics review equivalency; genomics; genome editing and ethics in epidemics. Katherine currently sits as the Trust's observer on the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council and is a member of the H3Africa Ethics and Regulatory Working Group.