Claudia Pagliari
Senior Lecturer in Primary Care and Informatics / Programme Co-Director (MSc Global eHealth)

- 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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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
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Ethics of People Analytics: Risks, Opportunities and Recommendations
In:
Personnel Review
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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
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Digital health interventions in palliative care: A systematic meta-review
In:
npj Digital Medicine
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Malnutrition: the silent pandemic
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4593
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published) -
The ethics and value of contact tracing apps: International insights and implications for Scotland’s COVID-19 response
In:
Journal of Global Health
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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
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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
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"Planned benefits" can be misleading in digital transformation projects. Insights from a case study of Human Resource Information Systems implementation in healthcare.
In:
SAGE Open, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020933881
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Superusers’ Engagement in Asthma Online Communities: Asynchronous Web-Based Interview Study
In:
Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 22, pp. e18185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/18185
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
What do world leaders really mean by refusing to wear face masks?
UoE Expert Insights › Other contribution (Published) -
Covid-19 reveals the need to review the transparency and independence of scientific advice.
In:
UK Constitutional Law Association, Blog
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Featured article (Published) -
Use of Participatory Apps in Contact Tracing: Options and Implications for Public Health, Privacy and Trust [Report]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17868/73197
Research output: › Working paper (Published) -
Digital Health and Pandemics: What Covid-19 Reveals About the Challenges
In:
ICT&Health International
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
How will the coronavirus contact-tracing apps work?: Apps to combat Covid-19 are riddled with practical pitfalls and privacy problems
In:
PCPro
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Featured article (Published) -
Digital health and financial good-governance: a mixed methods study of patient revenue capture in Malawi
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Journal of Global Health Reports, vol. 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29392/001c.12258
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Coping with institutional complexity: Intersecting logics and dissonant visions in a nation-wide healthcare IT implementation project
In:
Information Technology and People, vol. 33, pp. 311-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-08-2018-0373
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Status of Health Information Exchange: A Comparison of Six Countries
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.09.020427
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Explorative scoping review and bibliometrics analysis of big data applications for medication adherence
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster (Published) -
Social Media, Thin-Ideal, Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis
In:
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 16, pp. 4177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214177
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)