About
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.
Transforming chronic respiratory disease care
Groundbreaking sticker could monitor breathing and help save lives.
People, projects and publications
People
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Doctor Marcus Newton
Associate ProfessorBragg coherent diffraction imaging (BCDI) of quantum materials
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: M.C.Newton@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 7548Address: B46, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Margo Ononaiye
Professor of Clinical PsychologyEmail: M.S.Ononaiye@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 5574Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Emeritus Professor Maria Stokes
Email: M.Stokes@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 6868Address: B67, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Mark Chapman
ProfessorNovel and Underutilised Crops (NUCs) for climate change resilience and food security
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: M.Chapman@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 4396Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Mark Cragg
Professor of Experimental Cancer BiologyAntibody biology
Antibody engineering
Cancer Immunotherapy
Email: M.S.Cragg@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2381208452Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Doctor Mark Johnson
Professor of Child HealthNeonatal and Infant nutrition, feeding and metabolism
Email: M.Johnson@soton.ac.uk -
Professor Mark Jones
Professor of Respiratory MedicineTissue resilience and Repair
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: mark.jones@soton.ac.ukAddress: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Doctor Mark Lown
Associate ProfessorEmail: M.Lown@soton.ac.ukAddress: Aldermoor Health Centre, Aldermoor Close, Lordswood, Southampton, SO16 5ST -
Professor Mark Moore
Professor of OceanographyMarine Biogeochemistry
Oceanic nutrient and carbon cycling
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: C.M.Moore@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 4801Address: National Oceanography Centre, Waterfront Campus European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH
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.
Related research institutes, centres and groups
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Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering
Our group brings together engineers and computer scientists to discover new approaches to diagnose and manage health and medical conditions. -
Institute for Life Sciences
We bring together interdisciplinary researchers with expertise across the themes of health and medicine, living systems, disruptive life technologies, and insights through data