Claudia Pagliari

Director of Global eHealth - University of Edinburgh - UK

Dr. Claudia Pagliari is a global leader in digital health research and ethics. Based at the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute, she is affiliated with the Centre for Population Health Sciences, the Centre for Medical Informatics, the Global Health Academy, and the Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Her interdisciplinary research spans digital health innovation, public health informatics, ethical governance, and science-policy interfaces. She leads the Interdisciplinary Research Group in eHealth and has directed numerous academic programmes, including the MSc in Global eHealth and the Data Ethics MOOC. She is co-founder and theme leader of the NHS Digital Academy and a visiting lecturer in digital health ethics at institutions including Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Pagliari advises multiple governments and international bodies. She currently serves as:

  • WHO Expert and Technical Advisor in Digital Health
  • Chair of the Scottish National Expert Group on Digital Ethics
  • Scientific advisor for national health review boards in Norway, Belgium and Switzerland

She has also contributed to the European Commission’s FP7 programme, the Global Health Workforce Council, and has served as external examiner for advanced programmes in Health Informatics and Data Science at several UK universities.

Her recent projects focus on telehealth, mHealth, AI ethics, virtual agents, participatory disease surveillance, empathic robotics, and misinformation in online health communities. Her work bridges high-income and low-income country contexts, always with an emphasis on responsible innovation and digital equity.

Claudia Pagliari