Bradley Malin, PhD

Biography

Bradley Malin, Ph.D., is the Vice Chair for Research and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He is also a Professor of Biostatistics, a Professor of Computer Science, and is Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society.  He co-directs the Health Data Science (HEADS) Center, the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe),  and the Big Biomedical Data Science Ph.D. program.  He is also the director of the Health Information Privacy Laboratory (HIPLab), which was established to address the growing need for data privacy research and development for the health information technology sector.  His research is funded through various grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Since 2007, he has led a data privacy consultation service for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network, an NIH consortium.  He is also the co-chair of the Data Privacy and Security Working Group of the All of Us Cohort Program of the U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative.  His investigations on health data privacy security have been cited by the Federal Trade Commission in the Federal Register and certain privacy enhancing technologies he developed have been featured in popular media outlets and blogs, including Nature News, Scientific American, and Wired magazine. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and was honored as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Dr. Malin completed his education at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a bachelor's in biological sciences, a master's in public policy and management, and a doctorate in computer science.