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.
Related Projects
eGames Lab
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Publications
2022
Analyses of reported severe adverse events after immunization with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the United States: One year on Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 10, 2022, (© 2022 Mangat, Musah, Luedtke, Syed, Maramattom, Maruthanal, Bosman 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.).
An Evaluation of the OpenWeatherMap API versus INMET Using Weather Data from Two Brazilian Cities: Recife and Campina Grande Journal Article
In: Data, vol. 7, no. 8, 2022, (© 2022 MDPI. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).).
To Zoom or not to Zoom: A longitudinal study of UK population's activities during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal Article
In: PLoS One, vol. 17, no. 7, 2022, (© 2022 Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.).
In: Applied Geography, vol. 144, no. 102718, pp. 102718–102718, 2022, ISSN: 0143-6228.
Ethical Issues in AI-Enabled Disease Surveillance: Perspectives from Global Health Journal Article
In: Applied Sciences, vol. 12, no. 8, 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/).
Exploring barriers to guideline implementation for prescription of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in Nigeria Journal Article
In: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, vol. 4, no. 2, 2022, (© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.).
Vaccine hesitancy and behavior change theory-based social media interventions: a systematic review Journal Article
In: Translational Behavioral Medicine, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 243–272, 2022, ISSN: 1869-6716, (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).).
In: Pani, SK; Dash, S; Santos, WP; Bukhari, SAC; Flammini, F (Ed.): Assessing COVID-19 and Other Pandemics and Epidemics using Computational Modelling and Data Analysis, pp. 299–331, Springer, Cham, 2022.
Machine Learning Approaches for Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Covid-19 Forecasting: A Brief Review and a Contribution Book Section
In: Pani, SK; Dash, S; Santos, WP; Bukhari, SAC; Flammini, F (Ed.): Assessing COVID-19 and Other Pandemics and Epidemics using Computational Modelling and Data Analysis, pp. 333–357, Springer, Cham, 2022.
2021
Do Women in Nepal Like Playing a Mobile Game? MANTRA: A Mobile Gamified App for Improving Healthcare Seeking Behavior in Rural Nepal Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Public Health, vol. 9, no. 645837, 2021, (© 2021 Kayastha, Mueller, Yadav, Kelman, Boscor, Saville, Arjyal, Baral, Fordham, Hearn and Kostkova. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).).