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
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Visualising web server logs for a Web 1.0 audience using Web 2.0 technologies: Eliciting attributes for recommendation and profiling systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0, pp. 69–78, CEUR, Trento, Italy, 0000, ISSN: 1613-0073, (This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.).
Teaching children hygiene using problem based learning: The story telling approach to games based learning Proceedings Article
In: Cao, Y; Hannemann, A; Manjón, B Fernández; Göbel, S; Hockemeyer, C; Stefanakis, E (Ed.): STEG'09: Story-Telling and Educational Games: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen, Germany, 0000, ISSN: 1613-0073, (Copyright © 2009 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. Re-publication of material from this volume requires permission by the copyright owners. This volume is published by its editors.).
Document Navigation: Ontology or Knowledge Organization System? Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology, NETTAB,, Pisa, Italy 0000.
National Resource for Infection Control (www.nric.org.uk): meeting a need? Proceedings Article
In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS, pp. S191–S191, Munich, GERMANY ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 0000, ISSN: 0924-8579.
Evidence-based infection control - A national resource Journal Article
In: British Journal of Infection Control, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 13–14, 0000, ISSN: 1469-0446.
Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop - HDL 2004: 16 September 2004, Bath, United Kingdom Journal Article
In: D-Lib Magazine, vol. 10, no. 10, 0000, ISSN: 1082-9873.
ECDL 2003 workshop report: Healthcare Digital Libraries (HDL 2003) Journal Article
In: D-Lib Magazine, vol. 9, no. 9, 0000, ISSN: 1082-9873.
Agent-Based Up-to-date Data Management in National electronic Library for Communicable Disease Proceedings Article
In: "Applications of intelligent agents in health care", Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, 0000.
MAGNET: A virtual shared tuplespace resource manager Proceedings Article
In: ElRewini, H (Ed.): PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, VOL VII, pp. 579–586, KOHALA COAST, HI IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 0000, ISSN: 1060-3425, (Book subtitle: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRACK).
FEMwiki: crowdsourcing semantic taxonomy and wiki input to domain experts while keeping editorial control: Mission Possible! Proceedings Article
In: Digital Health 2015 Proceedings, Florence 0000.