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Nayha Sethi is a Senior Lecturer at the Usher Institute within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. She holds an LLB in Common and Civil Law with French from Queen's University Belfast awarded in 2008, an LLM in Law from the University of Edinburgh in 2009, and a PhD awarded in 2016. Her career includes serving as a Research Fellow on the Scottish Health Informatics Programme from 2009 to 2012, where she examined ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding secondary uses of health data for research purposes, including consent, privacy, data protection, data linkage, and information governance. She then held a Research Fellow position on the Farr Institute from 2012 to 2016, investigating key governance challenges in data reuse for research. Since 2016, Nayha Sethi has worked as a socio-legal Research Fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project Confronting the Liminal Spaces of Health Research Regulation, with her fellowship Regulating for Uncertainty exploring relationships between treatment, research, and experimentation. She was appointed Deputy Director of the Mason Institute for Life Sciences, Medicine and the Law in 2012 and served as Deputy Chair of the Organising Committee for the 13th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 2016. Nayha Sethi has taught on courses such as Fundamentals in Medical Jurisprudence and Health Research and Commercialisation. Her research focuses on bioethics at the interface of medicine, ethics, and law, with particular emphasis on the responsible regulation of health data and artificial intelligence, regulatory challenges during global health emergencies, and the development of dynamic governance frameworks for data-driven innovation in health sectors. She is affiliated with the HeLEX Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies and the Empirical Legal Research Network, contributing to interdisciplinary collaborations that advance ethical and legal approaches to emerging health technologies.