El Emam is the recipient of the 2026 Global Privacy and Human Rights Award from the Global Privacy Assembly and Access Now. He’s helped shape the fields of privacy-enhancing technologies, synthetic data and medical AI, with applications for researchers, health-care organizations and policymakers.
Trust, innovation, impact: Khaled El Emam promotes privacy in health data sharing
How can health data be shared to advance research while protecting patient privacy? For more than two decades, Dr. Khaled El Emam, University of Ottawa professor and CHEO Research Institute senior scientist, and his team at the Electronic Health Information Laboratory (EHIL) have been developing solutions that enable responsible use of health data for research, innovation and patient care.
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