Robert is Chief Strategic Development Officer at Phenome Health which is a not-for-profit organization committed to delivering scientific innovation and enacting social change.

He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Masters Program in Bioethics at Columbia University in New York City, and an Advisor to Berkeley SkyDeck incubator and accelerator for technology companies at the University of California, Berkeley. In Oxford he is conducting research on the social and economic aspects of technological innovation in healthcare, and focused on developing ideas around human-centric healthcare. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge in the History of Medicine. He is working on two books and other media projects including digital and print formats, as well as a major documentary ’The Phenomic Age. A Quest for Wellness,’ filmed partly in Oxford.