Associate Professor Niranjan Bidargaddi

Niranjan Bidargaddi, BEng C.Sc, PhD, is the Associate Professor of Digital Health at College of Medicine and Public Health Flinders University. He leads the Digital Health lab based at Flinders Digital Health Research Centre Tonsley and SAHMRI. 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.

His current research centres around uncovering ethical and scalable innovative healthcare system architectures for digitised society, that can support populations when most helpful, while transforming financial, safety and quality metrics. His lab has produced innovative technologies that are providing the building blocks for health care in the future. Examples include: (a) trusted internet gateways offering relevent advise when people seek health related information online (b) navigators which audit digital footprints with different parts of the health system particularly in people with chronic and ongoing conditions and use nudges to ensure subsequent appointments, medications, referrals happen appropriately in the community (c) mobile technologies for observing and intervening to effect behaviour changes in smaller chunks in daily life.

Research areas: (a) Codesign with end-users digitally deliverable solutions and experiences related to health  (b) Product development and validation (c) Deployment, roll out and commercialisation

Avaiable to supervise HDR students in Digital Health.