Patty Kostkova
Biography
Professor Patty Kostkova is a Professor in Digital Health and the Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE). She has received an MSc and PhD in computer science. Prior to joining UCL, Patty was appointed ISI Foundation Fellow, Italy, and lead the thriving department City ehealth Research Centre (CeRC), City University London. She was a consultant at WHO, ECDC, Sky, Telefonica. Her research investigates One Health mobile and IoT surveillance in Brazil and Madeira, maternal health in Nepal and antibiotic stewardship (AMS) to combat antibiotic resistance (AMR) in Nigeria and the NHS. During the COVID-19 emergency, she has lead an award winning project My Lockdown Journal and longitudinal analysis of our lifestyle changes ‘Zoom or Not to Zoom’, while advising WHO on digital strategies and digital surveillance frameworks.
In 2019 and 2020, two years in a row, Patty won the industry ‘Innovator of the Year’ Award, in 2017 was shortlisted for the Woman of the Year and in 2018 for the Team Leader of the Year by Computing Women in IT Excellent Awards. Her team (UCL dPHE) won the Team of the Year 2020 Award by Computing Rising Stars Awards for the COVID-19 innovations.
Regular invited and keynote speaker at prestigious institutions and international conferences, Patty published over 230 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and edited a number of journals. Since 2014, she is the Editor in chief of the Frontiers in Digital Public Health. Patty is also the General and Scientific Chair of the International Public Health Conference series since 2009 (www.acm-digitalhealth.org). Her research was extensively covered by international media including the Medi1TV, BBC, AFP, the Vancouver Sun, the Malaysian Insider and Madeira TV. In 2020, she received the prestigious Coronaprofile by Business Science. In 2023, she was appointed a member of WHO Technical Advisory Group on the development of the Strategy and Action Plan on health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (Preparedness 2.0) in the WHO European Region.
She is a regular lecturer lecturer at ITI/UMA and was appointed to ITI for her expertise in mobile and IoT sensor surveillance of vector-borne diseases, serious games and decision support gamified apps for health, in particular, antibiotics prescribing.
Publications
2024
Enhancing public health response: a framework for topics and sentiment analysis of COVID-19 in the UK using Twitter and the embedded topic model Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 12, no. 1105383, 2024, ISSN: 2296-2565, (Copyright © 2024 Aldosery, Carruthers, Kay, Cave, Reynolds and Kostkova. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.).
Low credibility URL sharing on Twitter during reporting linking rare blood clots with the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Journal Article
In: PLOS ONE, vol. 19, no. 1, 2024, (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
2023
In: Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, vol. 19, no. 3, 2023, ISSN: 2164-5515, (© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.).
GADSA: Persuasive Gamified Antimicrobial Stewardship Decision Support App for Antibiotics Prescribing Behaviour Change in Nigeria Proceedings Article
In: 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health, SeGAH 2023, 2023, ISBN: 9798350346077.
Mosquito Ovitraps IoT Sensing System (MOISS): Internet of Things-based System for Continuous, Real-Time and Autonomous Environment Monitoring Proceedings Article
In: 2022 IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Yokohama, Japan IEEE, 2023, ISBN: 9781665491532.
Coalescing disparate data sources for the geospatial prediction of mosquito abundance, using Brazil as a motivating case study Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, vol. 4, no. 1039735, 2023, ISSN: 2673-7515, (Copyright © 2023 Musah, Browning, Aldosery, Valerio Graciano Borges, Ambrizzi, Tunali, Başibüyük, Yenigün, Moreno, de Lima, da Silva, dos Santos, Massoni, Campos and Kostkova. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.).
Reported rates of all-cause serious adverse events following immunization with BNT-162b in 5–17-year-old children in the United States Journal Article
In: PLOS ONE, vol. 18, no. 2, 2023, ISSN: 1932-6203, (© 2023 Mangat et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.).
Editorial: Digital interventions and serious mobile games for health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 11, no. 1153971, 2023, (© 2023 Borda, Molnar, Heys, Musyimi and Kostkova. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.).
A Study Exploring Different Modalities to Integrate Learning Objectives in Games Journal Article
In: International Journal of Game-Based Learning, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2023, (© 2023 IGI Global. This article published as an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).).
2022
Software development process of Neotree - a data capture and decision support system to improve newborn healthcare in low-resource settings Journal Article
In: Wellcome Open Research, vol. 7, no. 305, 2022, (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).