Claudia Pagliari
Senior Lecturer

- Usher Institute
- Global Health Academy
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Responsibilities & affiliations
Claudia Pagliari is a senior researcher and educator based in the Usher Institute. She is active across the Centre for Population Health Sciences, the Centre for Medical Informatics, the Edinburgh Global Health Academy and the Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation.
Expert advisory roles:
- World Health Organisation Expert and Technical Advisor in Digital Health.
- Scottish Government advisor and chair of the National Expert Group in Digital Ethics.
- Member of national scientific review boards for Norway, Belgium, Switzerland.
- Former member, Global Health Workforce Council and European Commission FP7 programme.
- Recently acted as External Examiner for the MSc in Health Data Science at the University of Manchester and the MSc in Health Informatics at the University of Leeds (fixed term posts).
- Various PhD external examiner roles.
Postgraduate teaching
Founder and director of the MSc in Global eHealth and co-founder/theme leader of the NHS Digital Academy. Also contributes to the Data Ethics MOOC, the professional development programme in Health Data Science and the Data Controversies lecture series. Individual courses she has developed/led include Global eHealth, Public Health Informatics, The Ethics and Governance of eHealth, The Business of eHealth and Citizen-Centred Digital Health, amongst others. Claudia is also a visiting lecturer in Digital Health Ethics at Imperial College London, the Open University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Research summary
Claudia directs the Interdisciplinary Research Group in eHealth. While mainly focused on digital health, her research crosses topics, methods and theories from diverse areas, including health technology assessment, science and technology studies, biomedical ethics, management science, data science and policy studies. For example, her recent empirical studies and expert reviews have looked at mobile apps for contact tracing, participatory disease surveillance and medication advice; empathic robots for mental health support; the use of digital innovations at the end-of-life, big data infrastructures, workforce analytics, online health networking, social media misinformation, and the ethics of data mining from conventional and alternative platfoms. Cross-cutting interests include the ethics and good-governance of digital innovations and programmes, in both lower and higher income countries.
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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A Digital Health Intervention for Concussion: Development and Clinical Feasibility Study
In:
JMIR formative research, vol. 7, pp. e43557
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/43557
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Open access publishing - noble intention, flawed reality
In:
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 317, pp. 115592
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115592
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Exploring the Equity Impact of Current Digital Health Design Practices: Protocol for a Scoping Review
In:
JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 11, pp. e34013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/34013
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Legal contestation of artificial intelligence-related decision-making in the United Kingdom: Reflections for policy
In:
International Review of Law, Computers and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2021.1999075
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Why Canada is in Court to Protect Healthcare for All: Global Implications for Universal Health Coverage
In:
Frontiers in Health Services: Health Policy and Organization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2021.744105
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Mobile devices and wearable technology for measuring patient outcomes after surgery: a systematic review
In:
npj Digital Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00525-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics: Methods and Results of the First WHO Infodemiology Conference
In:
JMIR Infodemiology, vol. 1, pp. e30979
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/30979
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Digital Health Ethics, Governance and Public Health Best Practices: Digital Health & Wearables Series, Episode 35
Research output: › Digital or Visual Products (Published) -
How the digital healthcare revolution leaves the most vulnerable behind
Blog › Other contribution (Published) -
Digitally-enabled primary care:: Past, present and prospects
(9 pages)
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 11, pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.11.01005
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Digitally-enabled primary care: a case for evolution not revolution
In:
ICT&Health International
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Featured article (Published) -
Digital Healthcare Leaves the Most Vulnerable Behind
(2 pages)
Blog › Other contribution (Published) -
Digital health interventions in palliative care: A systematic meta-review
In:
npj Digital Medicine, vol. 64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-021-00430-7
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How Shades of Truth and Age Affect Responses to COVID-19 (Mis)Information: Randomized Survey Experiment among WhatsApp Users in UK and Brazil
In:
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00752-7
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The Ethics of People Analytics: Risks, Opportunities and Recommendations
In:
Personnel Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-12-2019-0680
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Shades of Truth Study Series - Visual Report: WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
(26 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15325.74720
Research output: › Other report (Published) -
Legitimizing disruptive technology: The case of blockchain in the human resources sector
(19 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4180-7.ch001
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The ethics and value of contact tracing apps: International Insights and Implications for Scotland
(18 pages)
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.10.020103
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
Malnutrition: the silent pandemic
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4593
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
Factors influencing the sustainability of digital health interventions in low-resource settings: Lessons from five countries
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.10.020396
Research output: 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)