RDGB membership draws a wide range of expertise in secondary data analysis, COVID-19 research, CSO protocols, safeguards and existing governance, and safeguards and best practices for research. 

The committee member are:

• Professor Patricia Kearney, University College Cork (Chair)
• Dr Frank Moriarty, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Professor Catherine Comiskey, Trinity College Dublin
• Ms Ros Moran, EKOS-Social and Environmental Research Associates
• Professor Anne Nolan, The Economic and Social Research Institute
• Dr Akke Vellinga, University College Dublin