Judy Allen is an Honorary Fellow of the Law School at the University of Western Australia with expertise in in torts, health law, and research ethics. She has provided policy advice to the Western Australian (WA) data linkage unit, government data custodians, and the Population Health Research Network on ethics, privacy, and data sharing processes. She has extensive experience in human research ethics and has chaired the WA Department of Health Human Research Ethics Committee, a specialist committee providing ethical review of data-based research projects, and the WA Country Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee.