Patty Kostkova Bc, MSc, PhD

Patty is currently a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL). Her previous role at UCL was as Principal Research Associate for ehealth within the Department of Computer Science. In years 2012-13, she held a Research Scientist post at the ISI Foundation in Italy and in June 2014 was appointed ISI Fellow. Recently, she was also appointed a consultant at WHO, ECDC and Foundation Merieux. Patty serves as the Advisory Board member at ECDC Knowledge Management Working Group and the NHS National Knowledge Service TB Pilot project.

Until 2012, she was Reader and the Head of City eHealth Research Centre (CeRC) at City University, London, UK. With an extensive international experience from public health agencies such as WHO and ECDC, Patty built up CeRC into a thriving multidisciplinary research centre. CeRC piloted a novel model enabling direct technology transfer of a user-driven high impact research through a family of real-world online services for medical professionals including the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC), ECDC training resource FEM Wiki and educational games for children edugames4all. FEM wiki was the BCS and Computing: UK IT Industry Awards 2012 – finalist in Category „IT project demonstrating most effective use of collaborative technology. She is currently heading the pilot of NRIC delivering infection control evidence to professionals in Africa, in partnership with the Infection Control African Network (ICAN).