Tina Woods is a mission-driven social entrepreneur and system architect bringing diverse stakeholders together in shared endeavours to improve and level up health, working at the cross section of science, technology, investment and policy/government. She draws from her network of advisors, experts, and specialist freelancers in mission-led projects and specialises in creating networks and setting up new ventures to drive system change for better health.
She is Founder and CEO of Collider Health and works with private, public and third sectors, including UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s Healthy Ageing Industrial Strategy and emerging Integrated Care Systems. She was one of the authors of Accelerating Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care and a key contributor to Artificial Intelligence: How To get it Right for NHX AI Lab.
Tina is the Healthy Longevity Champion for the National Innovation Centre for Ageing, aiming to accelerate ageing intelligence and secure UK Research I's strategic aims to ensure better health, ageing and wellbeing in the UK and globally. She is co-leading the Quantum Healthy Longevity Innovation Mission to create the world’s first test bed for health underpinned by growing understanding of the exposome and links between health and climate as set out in the Lancet Quantum Healthy Longevity for healthy people, planet, and growth and Prospect special edition for the Minister for the Future, Make the UK a living lab for mapping the exposome.
Tina was director of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity secretariat until it disbanded in January 2023, and led the Open Life Data Framework.
She is also Co-Founder and CEO of Business for Health, a business-led coalition of socially responsible employers, purchasers, investors and innovators that is developing a Business Framework for Health with the CBI, bringing in ‘Health’ into ‘ESG’ mandates to support long-term sustainable innovation and investment in preventative health and care.
Tina’s book, ‘Live Longer with AI: How artificial intelligence is helping us extend our healthspans and live better too' was published in October 2020. She interviewed global leaders in longevity and AI (see their stories on the book’s website here).
Tina sits on various advisory groups, including the Strategic Advisory Board for the BBRSC Bioscience for an Integrated Understanding of Health, BSI standards group for AI in health and care, and chairs the Ada Lovelace Advisory Board on Health Inequalities. She is also a trustee for the British Society for Research on Ageing.
Tina is CEO & Founder of Collider Science, a social enterprise that aims to inspire young people in science and technology and equip them with the skills for the future.
Tina has a degree in genetics from Cornell University (USA) and MBA from Bayes (formerly Cass/City) Business School (London).