Taylor Hirschberg

Taylor Hirschberg’s research sits at the intersection of sociomedical ethics and digital health within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He examines how AI-enabled mental-health technologies are introduced, interpreted, and used in primary care and community settings, and how these systems shape patient experience, clinical reasoning, and equitable access to treatment. Drawing on mixed-methods inquiry, implementation science, and patient-reported outcomes, his work explores the conditions under which digital tools enhance, rather than unsettle, acceptability, safety, and effectiveness in routine care.

Before joining Oxford, Taylor held senior roles in global health, including fieldwork with Médecins Sans Frontières across Latin America, West Africa, and the Middle East. He later served as the inaugural Hearst Endowed Scholar at Columbia University, leading multi-country research on mental-health access in displacement and crisis-affected settings and collaborating with governmental and multilateral partners on culturally grounded models of care.

In parallel with his academic work, Taylor is an award-nominated journalist and impact producer whose writing and documentary projects have informed public and policy conversations on health, migration, and governance. His contributions—as a researcher, writer, and advisor to the Council on Foreign Relations—have been recognised through nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the GLAAD Media Award, among other honours.