Workshop 1

Margaret Allman-Farinelli - University of SydneyProfessor of Dietetics School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Margaret's research interests include all aspects of dietetics from food and nutritional science to prevention of lifestyle associated chronic disease and evidence-based dietetic management of chronic disease. She is interested in development of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods used for dietetic practice and research and innovative delivery methods in mobile and electronic health for health promotion and diet counseling. Margaret is leader of the Wireless Wellbeing research node for the Charles Perkins Centre... Read more here

Andrea Parker - Georgia Tech
Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing

Andrea's interdisciplinary research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Personal Health Informatics examines how social and ubiquitous computing systems can help reduce racial and socioeconomic health disparities. Her research has yielded best paper nominations at the premiere HCI conferences and she has served on technical program committees for the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) top HCI conferences, including CHI, CSCW and Ubicomp... Read more here

Donna Spruijt-Metz - University of Southern California
Director USC-CESR Mobile and Connected Health Program

Donna's main interests include using mobile technologies to develop data sets that combine sensor and self-report data that is continuous, temporally rich, contextualized. Her research focuses on childhood obesity and mobile health technologies, including the KNOWME Networks project, that developed a Wireless Body Area Network system to decrease sedentariness and increase physical activity in overweight minority youth using a JITAI... Read more here

Deborah Estrin - Cornell Tech
Professor of Computer Science, Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair, Associate Dean for Impact, and founder of the Jacobs Institute's Health Tech Hub.

Deborah's research interests include digital health, ubiquitous computing, personalization, and privacy (TEDMED). Most recently, she has joined the growing community of scholars and practitioners engaged in Public Interest Technology. Deborah co-founded the non-profit startup, Open mHealth and has served on several scientific advisory boards for early stage mobile health startups... Read more here

Christopher Gardner - Stanford University
Professor (Research), Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center

For the past 20 years, most of Christopher's research has been focused on investigating the potential health benefits of various dietary components or food patterns, which have been explored in the context of randomized controlled trials in free-living adult populations. Some of the interventions have involved vegetarian diets, soy foods and soy food components, garlic, omega-3 fats/fish oil/flax oil, antioxidants, Ginkgo biloba, and popular weight loss diets... Read more here

Carol Boushey - University of Hawai'i
Associate Professor and Director of Nutrition Support Shared Resource

Carol specializes in all aspects of assessing the broad spectrum of dietary exposures which provides the expertise to serve the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center as Director of the Nutrition Support Shared Resource. Examination of the relationships between diet and chronic disease outcomes, such as cancer and obesity, can aid the development of policies directed to improving dietary intakes in the population... Read more here

Jennifer C. Taylor - University of California San Diego
Postdoctoral scholar in the The Design Lab and the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems

Jennifer's main focus is cultivating relationships between the university and external community partners, toward developing models for academic researchers to collaborate with other public and private sector organizations. Jennifer’s projects examine how we approach design with and for people to build products, services, and systems supporting health and wellbeing... Read more here