Social Media, Social Networking and Health

Summary

The use of social media and social networking in health communication offers a number of novel public health capabilities. This project will involve working with a team involved with utilizing social media technologies for health applications.

Supervisor(s)

Professor Robert Steele

Research Location

Health Systems and Global Populations Research Group

Program Type

Masters/PHD

Synopsis

The HICIL research lab is carrying out funded projects utilizing both social media and mobile computing to assist in healthcare communication and service delivery. Social media provides new techniques to reach members of the community for public health purposes, provides new ways to personalize communication and also provides new models for patient-to-patient health communities. This project will involve utilizing socio-technical approaches to both develop and evaluate a novel social technology intervention for a specified common health condition.

Keywords

Social media, social networking, social computing, technology, health, e-health, eHealth, Mobile computing, sensors, persuasive technology, healthcare

Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 1369

Other opportunities with Professor Robert Steele

• Health Informatics, Health Technology, Information Technology
• Innovating Healthcare: Next-generation Personal Health Record Architectures
• Health Informatics Evaluation: Evaluating Electronic Health Record Deployments
• Mobile Health, mHealth
• Social Media, Social Networking and Health