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 People-centric Health Informatics 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. In 2018 he was awarded MRFF TRIP Fellowship to develop and translate a smartphone app which uses smartphone data to predict onset of mental health problems into clinical practice. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, received over $3M grant funding from industry, government and competitive funding sources (as the lead investigator). 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 in digital health area has two objectives: (i) address health care access gaps and (ii) examine design of health and social awareness inside societal technologies that are part of every day life. His lab develops and tests real-time cloud based health applications of Health Records, wearables and apps using co-design and participatory approaches within a number of settings and populations, to help identify, monitor and support people’s health problems accurately, timely and continuously - beyond clinics in everyday living environments, and not just for treating illness but learning and preventing risks and promoting wellbeing.

Programs:

aisquared.flinders.edu.au - Automated treatment adherence and care pattern monitoring

mindtick.flinders.edu.au - Real-time assessments