- Location
- ONLINE Register here https://forms.office.com/r/08fEnRw35G
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event
- Dates
- November 8, 2021 from 11:00am to 12:00pm
Links
This event is embedded in a Health Promotion class, we invite you to log-in sharply at 11 AM EST on November 8, 2021 and to log-off at Noon EST
“Digital Public Health” has emerged as a way to integrate digital technologies in public health functions to maximize their health impact. However, its definition, scope, and inherent challenges are yet not clearly defined. We conducted a scoping review to clarify current conceptions of digital public health, its scope, inherent challenges and potential strategies to surmount these challenges.
Ihoghosa (Muyi) Iyamu is a 3rd year PhD student at the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), University of British Columbia (UBC). He trained as a physician at the University of Benin, Nigeria, and holds a Masters in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (MDICHA), from the Humanitarian Aid Studies Centre (HASC) at Proyecto Kalu, in Spain. Over the last 8 years, he has worked in various capacities in public health operations research. Most notably, he has served as the documentation lead on FHI 360’s (Family Health International) large scale HIV/AIDS control program in Nigeria, and as the Project Coordinator for the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences’ (CHÉOS) long-term care research and evaluation projects in BC, Canada. He currently works with the Online Sexual Health Services Unit at the BC Centre for Disease Control, where his PhD research focuses on digital health equity in online sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection testing using implementation science methods. He holds the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best Doctoral Award and the UBC Four-Year Fellowships (FYF) For PhD Students award.