I don’t believe joy and seriousness are opposites. Our hardest health challenges are heavy, and moving them takes stamina and heart. I try to lead so lightness travels with us to move the heaviest work. Playfulness isn’t a distraction; it’s part of thoughtful, lasting work. Joy doesn’t cheapen the work; it sustains it.
Maxine Mackintosh's work lies at the intersection of data science and AI, equity and diversity, and health and genomics. She is the Co-Founder of two communities: One HealthTech, a global distributed community supporting diversity in health innovation, and Data Science for Health Equity which looks to make use of the best approaches in data science to drive health equity. She is also a researcher at the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to this she set up and lead a national programme to improve genomic data diversity in the UK.