Ann Borda

Ann Borda is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Medical School at the University of Melbourne. She is also an Ethics Fellow in. the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK) and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London (UCL), and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Kings College London. Her research specialisations are in the intersections of physical and digital places of artificial intelligence and social change, environmental health and medical humanities, and citizen science in health and digital culture.

Ann has held senior positions in government-funded research and innovation initiatives. Within Australia, Ann has held positions as CEO of the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, and Executive Director of the state funded VeRSI consortium - an innovation seed program established under the Victorian government's ‘Healthy Futures’ agenda and partnered with The University of Melbourne and other state and national research organisations, such as the Australian Synchrotron.

Prior to this, Ann was based in the UK at Kings College London with the JISC government-funded program for eScience. Concurrently, she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Computing Research, London South Bank University. Following her PhD, Ann was Head of Collections Multimedia at the Science Museum London in support of public science communication across biomedical and scientific discovery.

Ann is currently a member of the ITU AI for Good Global Impact Initiative Steering Committee which aims to help build capacity in developing countries and youth communities to fully participate in and equitably benefit in human-centred and sustainable AI innovation and collaboration. She was formerly a member of the Research & Policy Committee of the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) in which she was involved in an Australian national consultation and framework for climate, health and well-being. She has co-organised public forums and workshops on responsible AI, rights-based systems, well-being and society with the Alan Turing Institute, public sector and academic organisations in Australia, UK, and internationally.