Vasiliki (Vaso) Rahimzadeh (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She investigates the ethical, legal, and social issues of health data sharing across emerging computing environments. The goals of her federally funded research are to inform data governance policy and practice which maximizes the scientific value of health data and respects the rights and interest of individuals and communities. Rahimzadeh co-leads the Regulatory and Ethics Work Stream of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, advises federal agencies on life science governance through service to the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and is a member of the Bioethics Advisory Panel for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

Rahimzadeh received her undergraduate degree in microbial biology from the University of California Berkeley. She earned both her MSc and PhD degrees with specialization in biomedical ethics from McGill University as a Governor General’s Gold medalist, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with support from a National Human Genome Research Institute Ethical Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) program training grant.