Enabling and Improving Health Research

Executive summary

Professor James Batchelor, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, shares how his team is transforming global health research through data-driven infrastructures and international collaboration. From building Trusted Research Environments (TREs) to leading the EDGE Programme — spanning 150,000 research projects and 7 million patients worldwide — his work focuses on improving data management, research efficiency, and digital health strategy. Our partnership has been instrumental in enabling secure, scalable solutions to advance these goals.