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.