Professor in Digital Health
College of Medicine and Public Health
Niranjan Bidargaddi, BEng C.Sc, PhD, is the Professor of Digital Health and co-Director of Flinders Digital Health Research Centre at Flinders University. He leads Digital Health Lab at Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute. He is experienced in development, trial and translation of digital health programs (eg: Mental health apps search). He trained as a Computer Science Engineer, holds a PhD from Monash University (2007), and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at CSIRO in e-health (2008). Between 2009 to 2016, he worked in a largely operational health informatics role in South Australian Health Department. He was awarded a MRFF TRIP Fellow in 2017. He is a Chief Investigator of the ARC Industry Tranformation Research Hub on Digital Enhaced Living (2018-24), and has acted in leadership roles with three Cooperative Research Centers including Digital Health CRC.
Avaiable to supervise HDR students in Digital Health.
PhD - Bioinformatics (Monash 2007)
BEng C.Sc Hons (VTU 2003)
2018-20 TRIP Fellow, MRFF Next Generation Clinical Researcher Program
2019 Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Havard University
2017 Visiting Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan
2016- Fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
2015-16 Visiting Research Scientist, Digital Health, VTT Technical Research Centre Finland
- Lead Digital Health Research Program (Health Translation SA, SA Health, Digital Health CRC and Flinders Digital Health Centre)
- Enabling health and medical researchers produce digital innovations
- Supervise HDR students
- Engaging government, industry and other health care stakeholders to digitally transform health care systems
He is also the founding member and Co-director of goACT Pty Ltd, an Australian HealthInformation Technology startup that received seed funding fromCommericialization Australia, specializing in developing internet and mobile applications to deliver evidence based interventions and improving communication between patients and clinicians.