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Digital Health and Wellbeing

Digital Health and Wellbeing (DH&W) focuses on developing human-centred and accessible digital solutions to address unmet healthcare needs.

A particular emphasis is on algorithm development and digital biomarkers using wearable technologies and mobile computing to understand mechanistic (e.g., cognitive) as well as lifestyle factors in ageing (Godfrey, Alshabrawy, Rooksby, Pointon). Recognising the societal importance of this human centric approach, staff (Akhtar, Anwar, Sice, Elvin) research digital health challenges pertaining to vulnerable groups and information retrieval for decision support systems. We also research digital medicine-based topics in e.g., cancer-focused bioinformatics & functional genomics (Kurt, Woo)

Across the group we have a collaborative culture, regularly working with clinical and healthcare practitioners. Our computing science expertise is complimented by a broad spectrum of additional interests including but not limited to: wearable technology, digital biomarkers, bioinformatics, information behaviour, data mining, mental health, signalling theory and computational biology.  

Some of our partners include Parkinson’s UK, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust and Tyne, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Mental Health Trust.  

This group is a part of the University’s multi-disciplinary research into the theme of Integrated Health and Social Care as well as Human and Digital Design. 

Research from this group will be submitted to REF 2021 under UoA 11: Computer Science and Informatics. 

To view research papers emanating from this group, please navigate to our Northumbria University research portal

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 Group leader:

Dr Alan Godfrey

 Interests: Bioinformatics, connected health, healthcare technology, sports technology, wearable systems

Matthew_Pointon 

 Deputy:

 Dr Matthew Pointon

 Interests: HCI, interaction design, mobile computing information behaviour, information retrieval

 

This research group forms part of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.

 

 Ali_Akhtar

 Dr Akhtar Ali

 Interests: Data science, big data, health informatics, primary healthcare optimization and transformation, machine learning

    

Souza Franca Lucas 

 

 Naveed_Anwar  Dr Naveed Anwar

 Interests: Big data, data mining health informatics, digital entrepreneurship

 Garry_Elvin

 Mr Garry Elvin

 Interests: Web design, web development, wellbeing informatics

 
 Zeyneb_Kurt  Dr Zeyneb Kurt

 Interests: Bioinformatics, computational Biology, statistics, machine learning

 John_Rooksby

 Dr John Rooksby

 Interests: HCI, digital Health, development and evaluation of novel technologies for personal and public health

 Petia_Sice

 Dr Petia Sice

 Interests: Wellbeing informatics, systems and complexity sciences, interpersonal neurobiology and the arts

 

Affiliated members:

 Wai_Lok_Woo

  Prof Wai Lok Woo

 Interests: Data mining, information analytics, knowledge discovery, intelligence integration

 Martyn_Amos

 Prof Martyn Amos

 Interests: Synthetic biology, nature-inspired computing, collective behaviour crowd simulation

 


Yunus Celik

Fraser Young

Olalekan Ogundipe

Rachel Mason (with faculty of Health and Life Sciences)

Lisa Graham (with faculty of Health and Life Sciences)



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