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.
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People, projects and publications
People
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Doctor Melissa Andrews
Associate Professorspinal cord injury
gene therapy
axonal regeneration
stem cells
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: M.R.Andrews@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 2432Address: B85, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Michael Boniface
Professor of Information TechnologyArtifical intelligence for health systems
Human centred interactive systems
Email: M.J.Boniface@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 8866Address: B13, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ -
Professor Michael Hornberger
Professor of Applied Dementia ResearchPersonalised cognition in preclinical and clinical dementia
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: M.Hornberger@soton.ac.uk -
Professor Michael R Ardern-Jones
Professor of DermatologyEmail: m.aj@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2381206594Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Doctor Michaela Reichmann
Associate Professor in Respiratory MedicineTuberculosis, Sarcoidosis and other granulomatous disease
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: M.Reichmann@soton.ac.uk -
Doctor Mihaela Paun
Lecturer in StatisticsUncertainty quantification
Bayesian inference
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: L-M.Paun@soton.ac.uk -
Professor Mike Grocott
Professor of Anaesthesia & Critical CarePerioperative Care, Critical Care, Prehabilitation, Hypoxia, Integrative Physiology, Cl
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: mike.grocott@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 2381208449Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Doctor Mirella Spalluto
Senior Research FellowAccepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: C.Spalluto@soton.ac.ukTel: +44 23 8059 5193Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Professor Myron Christodoulides
Professor of BacteriologyTel: +44 2381205120Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, Southampton, SO16 6YD -
Doctor Nathan Huneke
Associate ProfessorExperimental medicine
Neuroimaging
Placebo and nocebo effects
Email: N.Huneke@soton.ac.uk
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