Associate ProfessorLiliana Laranjo

Dr Liliana Laranjo is Associate Professor in Digital Health at the Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC), Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. She holds a prestigious Horizon Fellowship investigating the use of artificial intelligence for chronic disease management.

Dr Laranjo has a background as a general practitioner. She has a Master of Public Health from Harvard University and a PhD in Digital Health from Lisbon Medical School, Portugal.

She leads the Digital Health Stream at WARC, where she coordinates several digital health trials and leads multidisciplinary teams across different fields, from medicine and health to data science and software engineering.She has been awarded a NHMRC Emerging Leader Investigator Grant (2023-2027) and an Honorary Future Leader Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation (2023-2026).

Her current research focuses on using digital health (smartphone applications, text messages, wearable and wireless devices, conversational artificial intelligence) to promote behaviour change, patient-centred care, and primary and secondary prevention of chronic conditions.

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