Meet our volunteers: an interview with Gareth Tudor-Williams

Our volunteers generously give their time and expertise to support health and social care research across the UK. By reviewing research studies, they help ensure research is ethical, safe and centred on participants, supporting work on some of the biggest challenges in health and social care. We are incredibly grateful for the contribution they make. Without their commitment and expertise, we simply couldn’t do what we do. We spoke to Gareth Tudor-Williams, Chair of the London-Central Research Ethics Committee (REC), about his experience as a volunteer and the impact of the role. I’m a paediatrician specialising in HIV and blood-borne viruses in children. I worked in the USA from 1989 to 1994, learning the basic science and clinical