Dr Patricia Mecheal

Dr. Mechael is a Senior Associate in the Center for Global Digital Health Innovation Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Co-Principal Investigator on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Digital Health Exemplars. She is also co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at health.enabled and serves as technical lead for the Global Digital Health Monitor, a web-based platform to measure and monitor digital health enablers at the country level. She has led new efforts in digital determinants of health, personal connected health, and digital therapeutics, exploring the use of digital technology for health in every day life and the strategic adoption of wearables, remote patient monitoring, and artificial intelligence alongside genomics to enable people to engage more effectively in their health through technology. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Internet Research and the Oxford Digital Health Journal and is co-editor of mHealth in Practice: Mobile technology for health promotion in the developing world. She's the award-winning, best-selling author of the middle-grade fiction novel, The Antidotes: Pollution Solution, which she wrote in collaboration with her 10-year-old son.