Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology

Building a Digital Public Health Framework

Workplace: Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University
Supervisor: Martin Komenda, Ph.D., MBA

This dissertation examines digital health, focusing on building blocks to ensure the effectiveness and sustainability of data-driven public health intervention. The study highlights the growing importance of secondary data use in public health and the significant role of non-technical challenges in the digital transformation of public health, such as the digital divide, lack of digital and health literacy, policy and leadership. The results provide a digital public health intervention framework and facilitate new data-driven approaches to strengthen epidemiology, health promotion and primary prevention in different European regions.

• The object of the dissertation research is a proposal of a digital public health intervention framework and its pilot application in practice.
• The subject of the dissertation research is the theoretical and methodological foundations and technical and practical aspects of digital public health intervention framework interventions.
• The dissertation research aims to develop a framework for implementing a digital public health intervention framework in the selected EU countries to strengthen epidemiology, health promotion, and primary prevention in different European regions.

Funding for the research

Potential use of joint grant funds for projects related to health literacy

Information on funding PGS positions

Only from a doctoral study program

Requirements

• Master's degree in biological sciences or similar
• International experience
• Well-organized and communicative
  
  

Supervisor

Martin Komenda, Ph.D., MBA

The scientific profile of the supervisor

• Senior researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University
• Web of Science – published scientific papers: author/co-author of 11 original papers in international journals indexed in the Web of Science database (2010-2023)
• Citation count: 129 citations (excluding self-citations)
• H-index: 6
• Monographs, books and book chapters: 4 professional monographs, seven book chapters
• A total of 32 educational and research grant projects as principal investigator (18) or co-investigator/proponent (14)

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0572-5767