OHT Oxford: Making HealthTech Work for Everyone

We’re bringing together curious minds, kind humans, and passionate doers from across health, tech, and beyond. Here’s why inclusive healthtech is more important than ever:

Despite women launching nearly half of all healthtech ventures, only 2.3% of VC funding goes to all-female founding teams. Black mums in the UK remain five times more likely than white mums to die in childbirth. Almost 50% of digital health tools skip basic accessibility features, and low-income patients use telehealth 30% less than average.

We’re celebrating the brilliant, established communities already thriving in Oxford and hope to supercharge all the great existing work with OHT community goodness.

We’ll be asking: 👉 How can we make healthtech more inclusive, engaging, and fun for everyone? 👉 What fresh spark can we bring to Oxford’s already thriving healthtech scene?

No prep, no pressure—just come as you are!

Event flow

5:30–6:00 – Arrivals, networking + snacks & drinks

6:00–6:10 – Welcome to One HealthTech – Brandy Coote

6:10–6:30 – Flash Talks (5 mins + 2-min Qs each):

• Gayle Curry, Mills & Reeve – Spotlight on female founders

• Zoya Yasmine, University of Oxford – Spotlight on AI bias in health

• Rowan Mould, TheHill - Spotlight on building communities in health innovation

6:30–6:50 – Interactive session: Your journey into health innovation (led by Erin Okhrymenko) + shareback

6:50–7:30 – Open group discussion: challenges & opportunities in building inclusive innovation

7:30–8:30 – Drinks + networking

8:30 - Event close

Meet the speakers

Zoya Yasmine

Zoya’s research explores the intersection between intellectual property, medical AI, data protection, and ethics. She previously obtained an LLB from LSE and MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Zoya has worked for numerous organisations in the healthcare industry including GSK.ai, BenevolentAI, MeditSimple, and the General Medical Council.

Gayle Curry

Gayle is a senior business lawyer specialising in healthtech solutions. She loves working with businesses that improve health and social care outcomes. With over 25 years’ experience, she offers commercial legal solutions—IP management, grant-funding agreements, and trading terms with customers, including universities and the NHS. She has led national patient-choice projects and enjoys working as part of client teams at every growth stage. Rowan Mould

Rowan Mould, PhD, is the Accelerator Manager at TheHill, Oxford University Hospitals’ digital health innovation team. He leads the NHS Market Access Accelerator, supporting startups to build scalable NHS-ready ventures, as well as a range of innovation support programmes for clinical and ops staff across the NHS. 

Erin Okhrymenko

Erin is an independent Product Management Consultant and certified Continuous Innovation Coach at Jar of Insights. She empowers early-stage health tech startups to build trustworthy and lovable products with a special focus on ethical AI deployment and empathetic UX design. Drawing on her experience from a venture studio, where she launched innovative products from scratch, Erin excels at transforming complex challenges into strategic product decisions.

Brandy Coote

Brandy has spent nearly two decades supporting research across the life sciences. She has played pivotal senior advisory roles through periods of significant transition for NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Social Care, the University of Oxford, a wide selection of commercial entities, academic researchers and various NHS Trusts. Brandy is passionate about enabling secure access to data in order to power advances in health and social care research which is why she was particularly drawn to OHT's mandate to empower diversity, inclusion and innovation across heath care and the life sciences.