Research Group

Digital Health

Professor Age Chapman examines some proteomics data analytics

Our researchers are examining and developing information and communication technologies to help address the health problems and challenges faced by patients.

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With a rising population across the globe, many societies are struggling to meet healthcare demand.   Digital health care interventions are key to tackling this issue and help to enhance the efficiency, delivery and security of services to patients, and supporting care in the community. 

But with so many new digital technologies available and the immediate access to massive data sets how can we harness this information to ensure it makes a real difference to society?  And how do we overcome the challenges of privacy and personal data protection? 

Southampton scientists across medicine and electronics and computer science are combining machine learning,  genome sequencing and other computational methods to develop new digital health interventions to help healthcare professionals and patients to manage illness and promote health and wellbeing.   This includes both hardware and software solutions including using Internet of Things smart devices, wearable devices and monitoring sensors.    

Our teams are also using digital health technologies to analyse already available data sets to establish trends of behaviour and decision patterns with the aim of predicting future healthcare needs as well as examining the role data protection plays in this ever-expanding research field. 

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Eamonn Reading

Associate Professor-Molecular Bioscience

Research interests

  • Membrane proteins
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Multidrug efflux pumps

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Professor Edd James

Associate Dean Infrastructure

Research interests

  • Antigen processing and presentation
  • Regulation of T cell responses in anti-tumour responses

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Dr Edilson Arruda

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Healthcare modelling and optimisation
  • Optimisation under uncertainty
  • Markov decision processes

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Dr Elisa Fadda

Associate Professor in Pharmacology
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Dr Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Care in later life
  • Long-term care
  • Older people's social and support networks

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Dr Emily Brookes

Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences

Research interests

  • Enhancer regulation of gene expression
  • Cortical development
  • Topological genome organisation

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Dr Emily Gwyer Findlay MSci PhD FHEA

Assoc Professor in Biomedical Sciences

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Dr Emily Swindle PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Mast cells
  • Viral induced exacerbations of respiratory diseases
  • Asthma
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Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper PhD, CPsychol, FHEA, AFBPsS

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Metacognition in Psychosis and other serious mental health conditions
  • Creativity and Wellbeing
  • AI and Digital Mental Health

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Professor Emma Tompkins

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

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True interdisciplinary research, in which collaborators share the challenges and strengths of different domains is more than just applying one domain’s techniques to another area’s problems. Interdisciplinary research opens up new and exciting research opportunities in both domains by changing the shape of the problem and highlighting why existing approaches are not fit for use.
Professor of Computer Science

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