USC mHealth Collaboratory

Two new Journals for Mobile Health Researchers

Nature partner journals DIGITAL MEDICINE is open for submissions!

Digital Medicine publishes the highest quality digital medicine research, including the clinical implementation of digital and mobile technologies, virtual healthcare, data analytic methodologies and innovative sensor development to provide the necessary data and longitudinal monitoring to best inform the broadest medical community.

ACM Presents a new journal: ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH)
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) is a multi-disciplinary journal for the publication of high-quality original research papers, survey papers, and challenge papers that have scientific and technological results pertaining to how computing is improving healthcare. This journal is multidisciplinary, intersecting CS, ECE, mechanical engineering, bio-medical engineering, behavioral and social science, psychology, and the health field, in general. Papers must have novel computing research results. Datasets and other artifacts needed to support reproducibility of results are highly encouraged. Proposals for special issues are encouraged. Bring us your best!!
https://health.acm.org

Spotlight on
Dr. Eric Hekler

Dr. Eric Hekler, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Public Health in the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the Director of the Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems within the Qualcomm Institute at UCSD, and the faculty member of the Design Lab at UCSD. (read more)

News

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is seeking to hire an Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication (read more)

Important Resource For Ethical Issues in Mobile Health

Virtual humans work better than current ways to identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers.

Soldiers are more likely to open up about post-traumatic stress when interviewed by a virtual interviewer than by taking a survey, finds a study published today in open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. A computer-generated 'human' interviewer combines the advantages of anonymity with social connection and rapport, which could help soldiers to reveal more about their mental health symptoms. (Read More)

Job Openings

University of Southern California seeking Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication

University of Georgia seeking Tenure Track Faculty Position

Northwestern University Postdoctoral Research Training Program