Colin is the PHG Foundation’s Head of Humanities. He leads the team’s work on legal and ethical issues across genomics, novel health technologies, innovative biomedical research and data.
Some key recent projects have evaluated the impact of the GDPR on the processing of genomic data, considered legal and ethical requirements for transparency in AI-driven ‘black box’ medicine and assessed the legal and ethical considerations for digital participant platforms in genomic research.
As an academic legal researcher Colin has worked on a number of international, multidisciplinary research projects at the universities of Amsterdam and Oxford. Colin has a PhD in health law from the University of Amsterdam, a Masters of Studies in Legal Research from the University of Oxford and a BA in Law from the University of Cambridge.
- Journeys, experiences and best practices on computer modelled and simulated regulatory evidence (with InSilicoUK, MHRA, the Royal Academy of Engineering)
- Human involvement in AI-driven digital pathology pathways: ethical and legal considerations
- Adopting a risk tool for stratification and predictive prevention of oesophageal cancer
- Are synthetic health data ‘personal data’?
- Evaluation of polygenic score applications
- Control of patient information in the COVID-19 era
- Visual identifiers in the care of people with dementia
- The GDPR and genomic data
- Black box medicine and transparency
- When are synthetic health data personal data? (published by GA4GH)What do patents tell us about the nature and trajectory of medical AI? (co-written with Prof Kathy Liddell and Prof Mateo Aboy)
- Synthetic health data, real regulatory challenge
- COPI notices extended until March 2022
- After ABC v St George’s: a new duty to consider
- How does the GDPR apply to genomic data?
- A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia. Brigden, T.V., Mitchell, C., Kuberska, K. Hall, A.. A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia. Bioethical Inquiry (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10315-x
- Ethical and legal implications of implementing risk algorithms for early detection and screening for oesophageal cancer, now and in the future. Tanya Brigden, Colin Mitchell, Elizabeth Redrup Hill and Alison Hall. PLOS ONE. 2023 October. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293576
- Ethical and legal considerations influencing human involvement in the implementation of artificial intelligence in a clinical pathway: A multi-stakeholder perspective. Elizabeth Redrup Hill, Colin Mitchell, Tanya Brigden and Alison Hall. Frontiers in Digital Health. 2023 March. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2023.1139210
- Secondary Use of Personal Health Data: When Is It “Further Processing” Under the GDPR, and What Are the Implications for Data Controllers?
Becker, R., Chokoshvili, D., Comandé, G., Dove, E.S., Hall, A., Mitchell, C., Molnár-Gábor, F., Nicolàs, P., Tervo, S. and Thorogood, A., 2022. European Journal of Health Law, 1(aop), pp.1-29. - Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for research
Colin Mitchell and Alison Hall. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2023;0(0). - Applying GDPR roles and responsibilities to scientific data sharing
Regina Becker, Adrian Thorogood, Jasper Bovenberg, Colin Mitchell, Alison Hall, International Data Privacy Law, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2022, Pages 207–219
