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Dr Ann Borda is an Honorary researcher in DIS with research publications, expertise and interests spanning the interdisciplinary areas of health informatics, medical humanities, citizen science, digital culture, AI and open knowledge systems. She is an Associate Editor of Frontiers Digital Public Health and visiting editor of the Citizen Science: Theory and Practice Journal.
After graduating with a PhD from DIS, Ann became Head of Collections Multimedia at the Science Museum in London (2000-2004) responsible for digital collections projects across the Science Museum Group sites: Science Museum, National Railway Museum, and National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. Subsequently, Ann was based with the JISC program for eScience (2004-2008) supporting national research platforms, such as the Open Source Software Advisory Service (Oxford University). Concurrently, she was a Research Fellow with the Institute for Computing Research, London South Bank University.
Ann is presently an academic in the Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne in Australia, and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (FAIDH). Within Australia, Ann has also held leadership roles in data-intensive initiatives, such as CEO of the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, and Executive Director of the VeRSI consortium – an innovation seed program with universities and the Australian Synchrotron. Additionally, she sits on the Policy & Research Committee of the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA.org.au) co-developing a national policy framework, and in her spare time supports the conservation imaging of rare artefacts (cuneiform tablets and an Egyptian child mummy) as a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Archaeology.
URL: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person197899
Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3884-2978