Brhmie Balaram is Head of AI Research & Ethics in the NHS AI Lab. She leads the Lab’s AI Ethics Initiative, which supports research and practical interventions that strengthen efforts to validate, evaluate, and regulate AI-driven technologies in health and care. Her focus is on addressing the inequalities that can emerge from the ways that AI-driven technologies are developed and deployed. She recently led work in the NHS to engage the public on how decisions about data access for AI purposes should be made.