Claudia Pagliari
Senior Lecturer in Primary Care and Informatics / Programme Co-Director (MSc Global eHealth)
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
- Global Health Academy
Contact details
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
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- EH8 9AG
Background
Dr Pagliari is a senior lecturer and researcher within the Usher Institute, where she leads a research programme on eHealth and directs the MSc in Global eHealth.
With a background in social science and health technology assessment, her research is highly interdisciplinary and covers many areas of eHealth and the digital society. This includes the study and evaluation of emerging innovations (for example: direct-to-consumer genetic testing, therapeutic robots, apps), large-scale health IT programmes (for example: human resource information management systems, administrative data research, e-Government), new forms of data for science (for example: social media and crowdsourcing), technologies for global health system strengthening and ethical and responsible research and innovation.
She collaborates with colleagues from across the university, including Edinburgh Medical School, the Business School and the Schools of Informatics and Health in Social Sciences, as well as a network of international researchers, NGOs and others. She is a member of the Global Health Academy, the Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation, the Social Informatics Cluster, and the Edinburgh Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Group and convenes the interdisciplinary research groups in eHealth and digital disease surveillance.
Claudia holds a first class degree in Psychology from the University of Ulster and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. She was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2010. She is a member of the UK College of Experts in Health Informatics, the British Computer Society, the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals (level 3), and has held advisory roles with the American Health Information Management Association, the European Commission (scientific expert) and other agencies and is regularly invited as a conference keynote speaker.
Undergraduate teaching
Contributes to the vertical theme in Medical Informatics for the MBChB, and the undergraduate nursing programme (Health and Society).
Postgraduate teaching
- Directs the MSc in Global eHealth and leads or co-leads courses in ‘Ethics and Governance of eHealth’, ‘Business of eHealth’, ‘Public Heath Informatics’, ‘Introduction to Global eHealth’ and ‘Research & Evaluation in eHealth’
- Supervises interdisciplinary PhD projects in eHealth (currently including social media use by patients, human resource information systems, health information management and governance in low income countries, digital pharmacy innovations)
Wider educational contributions
Externally, Claudia has recently contributed to the NHS Clinical Informatics Specialist training programme, and the Global Health Workforce Council (focused on health information curriculum standards) and is currently External Examiner in Health Data Science at the University of Manchester.
Current PhD students supervised
- Joanna Taylor - Scoial Media for Public Health
- Aizhan Tursunbayeva - Human Resource Management Systems in Healthcare
- Paul Kawale - Information Technology for Health System Strengthening in Malawi
- Dudzai Mureyi - DIgital Innovations for Improving Access to Medicines in Zimbabwe
Research activities
Project activity
Claudia's projects include telehealth, mHealth, date science, virtual agents, social machines, data ethics, and digital governance, both in high and low income countries.
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The risks of basing digital health strategy and procurement on industry hype and alluring prototypes
In:
ICT & Health International
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Commercial health apps: in the user’s interest? : Study shows how sensitive data from health apps is finding its way to corporations
In:
BMJ
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1280
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Considering patient safety in autonomous e-mental health systems - Detecting risk situations and referring patients back to human care
In:
Bmc medical informatics and decision making
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0796-x
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What Kind of Benefits Different Stakeholders Can Expect and Obtain from HRIS Implementations: An Italian Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90500-6_4
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Social Media Responses to GMO and Probiotics – A Chronological and Cross-Cultural Analysis
Contribution to conference › Poster (Published) -
Co-payments in healthcare: politics masquerading as economics
(1 page)
In:
BMJ
Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Comprehensive scoping review of health research using social media data
(8 pages)
In:
BMJ Open, pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022931
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
New forms of data for understanding low- and middle-income countries’ health inequalities: the case of Tanzania
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 8, no. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.08.020302
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People analytics-A scoping review of conceptual boundaries and value propositions
(24 pages)
In:
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 43, pp. 224-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.08.002
Contribution to journal › Review article (Published) -
#Deathbedlive : the end-of-life trajectory, reflected in a cancer patient's tweets
In:
BMC palliative care, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0273-9
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
More video
- Fake Drugs, Data Grabs & Bot Sharks: Innovation, Ethics & Global Health Governance (The Week in Health Law podcast, July 2017)
- Privacy, Autonomy and Power in a 'Smart, Connected' World (Health Privacy Summit, Washington DC, USA 2016)
- Personal Health Records & Personalised Health: Where are We Headed? (European Electronic Health Records Conference, Italy 2016)
- Challenges of mHealth evaluation in developing country contexts (mHealth Global Conference, London 2015)
- Human Resource Management Systems in Healthcare (Farr Institute, Edinburgh 2015)
- Medical Apps, Risk and the Need for Evidence (Royal Society of Medicine, London 2014)
- Global Health in the Digital Age (Global Health Academy Infectious Diseases Conference, Edinburgh 2014)
- Social Machines and Health (Science & Practice of Social Machines Conference, Oxford 2014)
- mHealth and the Cancer Trajectory (mHealth Summit, Washington DC, USA 2013)
- mHealth, Telehealth and the Digital Society: Where does the Value Lie? (Health Informatics Conference, New Zealand 2013)