Zharain Bawa is the Greater Manchester Secure Data Environment Product Director and leads the strategic delivery of the SDE service.

Her previous roles included Head of Delivery for National Digital, Data and Transformation Programmes (Digital Homecare, Connected Care Records and Digital Maturity Assessment) within the Transformation Directorate, NHS England.

Zharain is a Ph.D, scientist and data analyst by background with significant experience working in life sciences, genomics and public and population health. She has a deep interest and passion in using healthcare data safely and securely to enable research, benefitting patients and the population.