Claudia Pagliari
Senior Lecturer
- Usher Institute
- 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
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.
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)